Visual chronicle
Carver Through the Mists
Portraits, battles, discoveries, and quiet moments gathered from Carver’s road through the Domains of Dread.
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Portraits & References
Carver Portrait
Carver, a brown-gray tabaxi artificer with luminous blue eyes, stands amid gothic ruins with amber magic in one hand and the spectral Chip perched on his shoulder.
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Darkon Party Portrait
Carver, Rage, and Ignatius together beneath a stormy moon in a gothic Darkonian city.
Scene notesChapter I · Sessions 1–3
Roots in Rivalis
Gravelights at the Graves
Carver, Rage, and Ignatius observing blue gravelights among old graves outside Rivalis.
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Roots Beneath Rivalis: Garden Battle
Carver, Rage, and Ignatius battling thorny plant creatures above an exposed gray root in a Rivalis garden.
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The Woman Who Took Wing
Rage, Carver, and Ignatius watch a wounded bat escape above Rivalis's lantern-lit market.
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A Chorus Under Glass
Carver uses a spectral hand to part living plants as Rage and Ignatius cross a chamber carpeted in glowing violet fungi.
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Haunted Visage at Coachman's Rest
Carver, Rage, and Ignatius confronting a pale halfling who dissolves into spectral mist at an inn table.
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The Gardens Swallow Their Dead
The party recovering an alien heart while the Crystal Gardens absorb a defeated bark-covered blight.
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The Thirteenth Bell
Rage, Carver, and Ignatius listen as an impossible thirteenth bell toll echoes through their Coachman's Rest room.
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Vidic Reveals Himself
Winged Vidic standing in humanoid crow-like form while Rage kneels beneath a vision of ravens and Carver studies the magic.
Scene notesChapter II · Sessions 4–7
Beyond the Mists
The Chair Bites Back
A monstrous dining chair traps Rage while Ignatius heals him and Carver prepares a flaming spell.
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The House Beyond the Mists
Ignatius holds the silver Mist talisman as a cobblestone road and Richten House emerge from white fog before the party.
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Carver's Last Radiant Bolt
Carver fires a radiant crossbow bolt at a disintegrating cellar creature while Rage and Ignatius lie unconscious.
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Erasmus Paints the Past
Erasmus paints spectral memories above Van Richten's journal while Ignatius and Carver watch in the laboratory.
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Blood and Memory at Midnight
Carver holds a vial of sacrificial blood and Van Richten's journal as Erasmus paints Azalin, a breaking tower, and divided churches into the air above the Eternal Order's midnight mass.
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Ablander's Last Midnight
Ignatius breathes acid as Rage pursues High Sentinel Ablander up a stone stair, while Carver casts from the shadows and an illusory spider hangs overhead.
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Into the Mists, Willingly or Not
Rage runs from alarmed Neblus carrying Black Lily under one arm while Ignatius and Carver race toward a wall of luminous mist.
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The Domain Takes What You Were
Duskren Kalvar gestures across a candlelit refectory table as symbolic faces and fragments of distant places dissolve into mist above Ignatius and Carver.
Scene notesChapter III · Sessions 8–12
Talons over Darkon
Chip, It Answered
Carver kneels before Chip, a luminous cat spirit forming from blue-white Shroud mist within an amber ritual circle, while Rage and Ignatius watch from the shadows.
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The First Fruits of Advancement
Carver stands with the spectral Chip on his shoulder, Ignatius holds golden healing and violet harmful power in opposite hands, and Rage plays paired drums surrounded by bardic rings.
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The Roads Only Rats Can See
Carver studies a sparse procession of rats crossing a wet Martira Bay street while a summoned badger charges after them and the black tower rises beyond.
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One Dead, One Taken
Carver restores the fallen Ignatius as spectral Chip attacks and Rage incapacitates one ratlike creature while another lies dead and a third escapes.
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The Pale Lantern Will Not Burn
Rage presses a burning torch into a chair that only chars and smokes while Carver, Chip, and Ignatius wait beyond the doorway.
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Hundreds of Talons
Ignatius, Rage, and Carver place their hands around a star-filled seer's stone while winged Vidic presides and ravens crowd the night around Richten House.
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The Heckler Takes Wing
Rage hurls amber-and-blue bardic force at a heckler whose leathery cloak unfolds into bat wings, while Carver and Chip recognize the transformation.
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The Road Out of Martira Bay
Vermoth drives a worn coach across the bridge from Martira Bay while Ignatius watches beside him, Carver rides within, and Rage walks alongside.
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The Twitch upon the Chain
Carver negotiates with a horrified Clenis over three Boom Sticks while Rage bites into a severed human foot behind them.
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Battle Within the Shroud
Ignatius shatters a skeletal horse with a violet-charged elbow while Carver directs the spectral Chip's Force Ballista against a horned skeleton.
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Mercy Born of Fear
Within Carver's amber sanctuary, Carver treats Buddy's single bandaged forearm stump while Buddy's other arm remains intact and Rage and Ignatius look on.
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Ride Through the Dead
Ignatius drives the coach through rising corpses while Carver, Chip, and Rage defend its side and a robed spellcaster watches from the horde.
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The Shroud Takes Rivalis
The party and the wounded Buddy look down from horseback upon Rivalis as a vast wall of luminous mist consumes half the town.
Scene notesChapter IV · Sessions 13–19
Castle Avernus
Beneath the Broken Spire
Carver raises the red invitation toward a corpse-like raven while Rage, Ignatius, and Ooru stand beneath the shattered, luminous heights of Castle Avernus.
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Ooru Says What?
Carver prepares a Boom Stick just as Ooru opens the trapped room's floor hatch from below.
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The Book That Remembered Rage
Rage reads his forgotten thoughts while Carver studies the immense index and the headless ghost Elzarath writes behind them.
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Three Futures for Darkon
Irik, Allaric, and Ebb's raven offer competing futures while Rage kneels in terror and Ignatius and Carver choose truth.
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What Rose in the Slaughterhouse
Chip pours spectral flame across a towering flesh-built abomination while Rage, Ignatius, and Carver battle among its corpse servants.
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Birth of Pearl
Four elemental plinths send earth, fire, water, and air into a small crystal above a central vessel of bones while Ignatius, Rage, and Carver watch.
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Rage Loots the Treasury
Rage kneels amid overflowing gold and jewels, shoveling treasure into the Bag of Holding while Carver holds it open and Ignatius, Ooru, and Chip watch.
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Slippery Siv Steps Free
Carver opens an iron cage as the dog-like mongrelman Slippery Siv steps into the menagerie before Ignatius, Rage, and Ooru.
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Slippery Siv Is Back
Carver completes the restoration spell as human Siv stands before a fading golden afterimage of his former bipedal mongrelman body.
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The Man Who Remembered Nothing
Carver offers the dried black lily to the newly freed Voss while Rage holds aside the cell's broken bars and Siv watches from the passage.
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The Portrait Cape
Rage displays a ragged canvas cape cut from a portrait of two unknown investigators while Carver, Ignatius, and Ooru react amid the overflowing treasury.
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To the Bone Room!
Pearl confronts a towering club-wielding bone beast while Rage, Carver, and Ignatius fight across a chamber whose floor is buried beneath skeletal remains.
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Chip Brings Down the Bone Golem
Chip unleashes a broad sheet of flame at the towering bone golem while Rage, Carver, Ignatius, and Pearl fight in the Bone Chambers.
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Flight from the Endless Dead
Carver, Rage, and Ignatius flee the Bone Chambers toward an animal-dug tunnel while a summoned undead spirit distracts the rising skeletons behind them.
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The Red Sun Blade
Rage holds the red-glowing Sun Blade in Castle Avernus's lower laboratory while Carver studies a ring and spellbook and Ignatius watches preserved specimens.
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Carver Strikes the Werebear
Carver fires a radiant crossbow bolt into the caged werebear while Lafing grieves over his slain companion.
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Hyskosa's Revelation
Hyskosa's false face dissolves as Rage and Carver collapse in grief within the Beast Prison.
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Carver Heals the Unicorn
Carver's healing magic steadies a wounded white unicorn beside its cave while Rage and Ignatius keep watch.
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Hyskosa's Scrying Pool
Hyskosa guides a blood-dark scrying pool as Ankhtepot's golden vision appears within it.
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Pearl Strikes the Fire Elemental
Pearl's earthen fist tears through the immense fire elemental as Rage, Carver, and Ignatius attack in the brazier chamber.
Scene notesChapter V · Sessions 20–22
The River Dancer
Black Lily's Reckoning
Rage grips Black Lily's wrist while Ignatius restrains him and Carver presents Darian's sealed letter.
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Carver Restores Fling
Carver reads a glowing resurrection scroll as Fling awakens and Lafing stares in astonished joy.
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Snowmane Approaches the River Dancer
Captain Snowmane approaches Rage, Ignatius, Carver, and Chip in the River Dancer's lantern-lit gaming lounge.
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The Attic Coffins Open
Siv opens an attic coffin as two tentacled, vampiric-looking aberrations emerge while the party prepares to fight.
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Above the Guard Search
Rage, Ignatius, and Carver crouch on rain-slick Martira Bay rooftops while guards search the alley below.
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The Rat House Erupts
Rage, Ignatius, and Carver fight three Boneless in a wet alley as rats merge into a huge creature behind them.
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The River Dancer Awakens
Captain Snowmane stands amid vines and living timber as the River Dancer awakens around her, while Rage, Ignatius, and Carver watch.
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Alley Patrol Ambush
A Martira Bay guard captain thrusts a sword across Rage's path as Carver and Ignatius react in a narrow rain-dark alley.
Scene notesChapter VI · Sessions 23–30
Into Barovia
Mordenkainen Opens the Mansion Portal
Mordenkainen, a bald archmage in deep-blue robes, opens a glowing portal in a rock wall as Rage, Ignatius, and Carver wait in the misty Svalich Woods; a warm mansion lies beyond.
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Ooru's Farewell at Har'Akir
Ooru, a desert merchant in layered travel clothes, wades from a dinghy toward Har'Akir's sunlit shore while Rage, Ignatius, Carver, Lafing, Fling, Voss, and Slippery Siv watch from the white-hulled River Dancer.
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Twig Blight Ambush
Ignatius sprays green acid at twig blights while Rage sends a blue-white thunderwave through the forest; Carver directs Chip after a fleeing squirrel in the Svalich Woods.
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Voss Remembers Mordenkainen
Voss, a bald man in worn prisoner clothes, stands surrounded by blue-white arcane fragments as Rage, Ignatius, and Carver react on Barovia's misty lakeshore; the River Dancer recedes behind them.
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Breakfast at Mordenkainen's Mansion
Mordenkainen hosts Ignatius, Rage, Carver, Lafing, Fling, and Slippery Siv at a lavish breakfast in his hidden magical mansion.
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Hunters in the Svalich Woods
Carver holds up a silver talisman while Ignatius and Rage peacefully face two wary hunters in the rain-dark Svalich Woods.
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The Ashen Travelers
Ignatius reaches toward an ashen traveler on Vallaki road as Rage and Carver watch; a stone bridge, lake, and walled town recede through the fog.
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Urwin Recognizes the Keepers
Urwin and Carver exchange a discreet greeting at the Blue Water Inn bar while Hyskosa leans in to whisper to Rage; Ignatius watches amid ravens and rain-dark windows.
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A Map Worth Fifteen Gold
Rage holds the attention of Lady Watcher's sons while Carver secretly conjures a false treasure map against Rage's broad back.
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The Cellar Council
Ignatius, Rage, and Carver confer with Urwin and Rictavio among the wine casks and storage crates beneath the Blue Water Inn.
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The Cats of Watcher Library
Ordinary cats swarm Carver, Ignatius, and Rage inside Fiona Watcher's library while Chip breathes flame toward the tabby wearing the hidden-chest key.
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The House Helps Her Escape
Rage restrains one frightened servant among scattered caltrops while another runs up an animated carpet toward Ignatius and Carver clings to the staircase wall.
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The Rite Beneath Watcher House
Rage, Ignatius, and Carver enter a hidden cellar ritual chamber as robed cultists channel crimson-violet magic around a pentagram and a lit Boom Stick burns at its center.
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Fire in the Belly of the House
Inside the burning manor, spectral Chip projects fire across the wall above Carver while Pearl braces against the timbers and Ignatius batters the rear door.
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Precious Cargo
Rage and Ignatius carry an oak wine barrel within a translucent horse-and-cart illusion while Carver and spectral Chip accompany them away from the burning manor.
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The Hunter and the Portrait
Van Richten holds his removed hat and points at the two detectives painted on Rage's ragged cape while Carver and Ignatius watch in the inn's private room.
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The Stairwell Holds
Rage unleashes thunder as Izek and Ignatius hold the basement doorway; Carver casts behind them and spectral Chip breathes fire while a cultist slips on the greased stairs.
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Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!
Carver and Blinsky examine wooden dolls at a workbench while Piccolo perches on the toymaker's shoulder and matching female dolls line a shelf.
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The Tail That Moved
Ignatius recoils from a detached rat tail among Hyskosa's casting bones while Carver watches in puzzlement at the inn breakfast table.
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An Invitation from Strahd
A distressed Danica hands Carver a folded letter in the busy Blue Water Inn, with an empty staircase behind them.
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Fire and Armored Claws
An armored sabercat leaps from a colorful wagon through the fiery trap as Carver recoils on the rain-soaked ground.
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