She explicitly has no loyalty to Queen Elvanna, nor is she a member of the Winter Guard, and this is why she's willing to throw her lot in with the party if they approach her in the right fashion. Evil Is One Big, Happy Family: Averted.Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Yes, she's a savage, ice-breathing giant wolf, Don't mean she doesn't need affection, too!.Canis Major: In her true form, she's a bear-sized she-wolf.Breath Weapon: A conical blast of freezing cold, as is standard for winter wolves.One way of securing her allegiance is promising to help find a way for her to assume human form even when she's not in Howlings or Redtooth. Becoming the Mask: A variant like all winter wolves in Howlings and Redtooth, she greatly enjoys being able to take on human form and especially in indulging in more human comforts.Abhorrent Admirer: Her human form is far from ugly, but her natural form is a giant wolf, which may turn some players off.She can become a potential ally of the party if approached right, but the party has to get past her to get into Howlings regardless. well, he's not exactly the most conventionally handsome of men, but he's still far prettier than she is.Ī female winter wolf who guards the Howlings Gate, appearing in adventure #2: "The Shackled Hut". The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Gender-inverted.Parental Abandonment: He was abandoned by his real mother, Baba Yaga, leaving him bitter and hateful.Rasputinian Death: Naturally, the players will have to dish one of these out to kill him.Kavorka Man: In this story, he seduced the Tsarina to conceive Anastasia.Implacable Man: He has to be killed three times before the "threads of fate" binding his soul to his body break and he stays down for good.Icy Blue Eyes: Has very obvious blue eyes, and isn't too kind of a person.Historical Domain Character: The actual historical figure who lived near the end of Tsarist Russia.Historical Badass Upgrade: The real Rasputin most definitely wasn’t a 18th level spellcaster.From Nobody to Nightmare: Had Elvanna not intervened he probably wouldn't have amounted to much.Faking the Dead: The body in his tomb that was burned by the Bolsheviks is actually a magically-created simulacrum.Doorstop Baby: Baba Yaga left him on the doorstep of a seemingly random Russian peasant family.Big Bad Duumvirate: Of the Reign of Winter adventure path, along with Elvanna.Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: He's the estranged son of Baba Yaga.Beard of Evil: Rasputin still has that iconic beard. Bastard Bastard: He's the Big Bad of Reign of Winter, and Baba Yaga's estranged son.Back from the Dead: The Bolsheviks killed him, but because of the powerful destiny ahead of him, fate itself wouldn't let him stay dead.Appearing in the fifth adventure of the path, Rasputin guards Baba Yaga's prison and seeks to claim her near-divine mantle for himself. Rage and envy at being abandoned by his birth-mother led him to conspire with his distant female sibling, Queen Elvana, to overthrow her. Secretly a son of Baba Yaga, left behind on Earth after he was born.
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