An entry on the Frankenstein's monster. Remember, I've written this quite quickly while on a bus, so take it with a grain of salt. But, comments!

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Excerpt of an essay Highlander beliefs, from the book [b]The Folklore of Kaledan[/b]

"Once upon a bandit from the Highlands, Morvran of Donnell was a handsome young man of infamy. Often a cruel and arrogant man, he has become an undead incapable of dying properly.

Ot is unclear when this happened, but according to a common tale, Morvran was cursed by the gods to walk upon the Earth until the end of the times, but truth is more... mundane.

Once upon a time, Morvran was on the road with his gang of thieves and murderers. They came across a small band of travellers, lightly armed and scholarly looking. The travellers had broken their carriage's wheel, and were busy repairing it. Morvran's gang attacked the scholars, killing a few, but in the end, the "travellers" unleashed magic upon them criminals, and most of them were shocked by the magic, never having seen its use before.

Most of them died soon, and Morvran was badly injured. The leader of the sorcerers, an elder man with a long white beard, decided to spare the bandit for an experiment: Morvran was about to die, and the elder mage hoped to revive him using an ancient artifact known as the Eye of the Dead God. A fist-sized jewel of crimson color, it held great power inside it, and the elder mage used the Eye to revive the man.

The Eye shattered suddenly, and Morvran came back to life, his wounds healed. He was astounded by the experience, and the mages tried to kill him, but to no avail. Morvran, in the end, killed the mages, but the white-bearded one escaped by levitating away.

Morvran vowed revenge for his men, and started a manhunt, finally killing the elder mage fivecyears later. During the centuries Morvran has walked on this earth, he has slain many crearures from lions to dragons, tried to find something that would kill him, but hasn't found a way. In the way, he is used as a boogeyman in common horror tales, and is a character of the folklore."

--- Elaine Fuchs, folklorist, 1463
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