Frantisek Markov

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Ravenloft Character
Frantisek Markov
Universe	Ravenloft
Homeland	Markovia
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Age	Unknown
Class	Unknown
Alignment	lawful evil

Frantisek Markov is a fictional character; one of the domain lords of the Dungeons & Dragons campaign Ravenloft.

Frantisek grew up on a small pig farm outside the village of Vallaki in Barovia. He married a young woman from the village and they opened a butcher shop there. Out of either curosity or sadism, Frantisek began to experiment with the animals, performing surgical amputations, grafts, and glandular injections. The animals invariably died within a few days, but his gruesome hobby cost him nothing, since he could still sell the meat. When his wife discovered his ghastly pastime, she was revolted and threatened to leave him and tell the villagers about the meat they were buying. Furious, Frantisek made her his next experiment, and she lived for three days. When her body was first discovered, the villagers thought it was the body of a horrible beast. When the truth was discovered, they exiled Frantisek to the Mists, where he became the darklord of Markovia.

In the Grand Conjunction of 735 BC (Barovian Calendar), Markovia disappeared from the centre of the Core and reappeared in the Sea of Sorrows, west of Lamordia.

The character is based on the title character of the H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr Moreau.