Jander Sunstar: Ravenloft (& Potential CoS) NPC - Stat Block Suggestions, Possible Adventures & More
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Jander Sunstar - who is mentioned in the "Mist Wanderers" section of 5E's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft - has a long history in the Ravenloft setting, going as far back as being the protagonist in Christie Golden's 1991 novel Vampire of the Mists. A 'good' sun elf vampire who is originally from the world of Toril (the Sword Coast setting), he has easily become my favorite Ravenloft NPC.
In this video, I discuss sources on him (including which wikis are good for Jander, plus some other short stories he appeared in), how I roleplayed him, I read out a short script where Jander briefly tells the players his backstory (including his time with Strahd in Barovia centuries earlier), stat block suggestions beyond what's suggested for him in VRGtR, his appearance in my game (where he appeared in the domain of Dementlieu, along with fellow Mist Wanderers Alanik Ray and Arthur Sedgwick), his controversial Baldur's Gate: Descent Into Avernus cameo and his retcon(?) in VRGtR, and about how my players may meet Jander again in either Forlorn or the Shadowlands (but will it be the Jander they knew from Dementlieu...?) where they'll also meet his dhampir daughter, Savra Sunstar.
00:00 Intro
02:09 Sources on Jander (wikis & novels)
04:17 Roleplaying Jander
05:08 Jander's story script
09:12 Stat block suggestions
13:16 Jander in my D&D game
18:20 Jander's Descent Into Avernus appearance(!)
22:14 Future adventures with Jander(s) & Savra
25:29 Outro
During the video I said I would reference a good video for Jander lore - but then forgot to mention it...! 🙈 It's this video from fellow Ravenloft RUclipsr Hour of the Raven: • Jander Sunstar (Englis...
Here's a link to the PhD&D video covering Niranjan that I briefly mentioned: • Let's make NIRANJAN in...
Here's the link to the text of Jander's story, which I posted on the Ravenloft subreddit: / janders_backstory_a_sh...
And here's the link to my post on the Ravenloft subreddit where I 'moaned' about my players playing in a Descent Into Avernus campaign (separate to mine), which featured the awesome comment by u/mjdunn01: / im_about_to_introduce_...
Music credits: "Plaint", "Night Vigil", "Decline", "Fairytale Waltz", "Grave Matters", "Serene" and "Time Passes" by Kevin MacLeod (a.k.a. Incompetech); licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/...
(Note: "Night Vigil" was the song I played during Jander's story during the video - and it's also what I played in the background in my game when I read out Jander's story to my players. I feel it works really well - especially given the flute part.)
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One of my favorite characters from the original ravenloft lore.
He's great, isn't he? Such a great character.
I'm planning on introducing Jander and his daughter(?) Savra at some point in my campaign.
Don't know a ton about her character, so I'm open to suggestions.
Yeah, she's his daughter (or "who [he] considers his daughter," to use the exact wording from the book). No, I don't know a ton about her, either (other than what I put in the video). She has the tiniest mention in VRGtR (IIRC) - probably intentionally made as a 'blank slate' type of NPC so that DMs can do their thing and roleplay her however they want. If I find anything substantial on her, I'll let you know.
Im intending on running Jander in my campaign (which is a continuation of COS) soon, so this vid was nice.
As abit of a twist to the multi Jander issue, I fleshed it out further with the idea that his multiple clones are different facets or possibilities for him (essentially "what if's"). As such the party will be sent by Jander and RVR to slay an evil version of Jander ("what if he abandoned his morality and spend his unlife as a vampire lord"). As a further but of complication, the party had Ireena Kolyana as an ally traveling with them - so Jander's reaction ought to be interesting.
Thanks!
That's such a cool idea! Reminds me of the Domain Jam idea I had and posted in the Ravenloft subreddit, a "what if one version of Jander turned evil and became a Darklord?": www.reddit.com/r/ravenloft/comments/19819mf/homebrew_domain_solicallor_where_the_darklord_is/
Oh yes, gosh, travelling with Ireena/'Anna' would definitely be interesting... 😬
Jander?
I always thought it was pronounced "Yander," like the German pronunciation.
I'm pretty sure I looked into it ahead of introducing him in my campaign, and the consensus was Jander with a hard 'J' - but I did see a few people suggest "Yander". I'm not 100% sure TBH. Maybe I'm wrong.
A good way to know for sure would be via the audiobook version of Vampire of the Mists - at least I'm hoping they'd get it right (you'd hope so eh?).