Voss

At a glance

A former name used by Mordenkainen while Darkon’s influence had erased his memories.

Portrait

• Primary reference: Voss Portrait
• Canonical status: Visual baseline for Voss’s bald head, close black goatee, stern features, lean build, prison clothing, and wary uncertainty during his amnesia.

Known facts

• Was imprisoned behind a barred cell guarded by two large skeletal beings.
• Battered the bars with animal desperation while the party fought his guardians.
• Was freed when Rage smashed open the cage.
• Calmed after Carver used the dried black lily’s calm emotions magic.
• Called himself Voss while he could remember nothing else.
• Recovered his identity as Mordenkainen upon reaching Barovia.
• Pledged himself to the party after they freed him.
• Waited with Ooru and Siv in an antechamber while the party entered the Bone Chambers.

Description

A lean, bald human man with a close black goatee, stern features, and penetrating eyes. His appearance suggests little about the life he has forgotten.

Current relationship

This page preserves the party’s record of the amnesiac prisoner. See Mordenkainen for his current identity and status.

Current status

Identity resolved in Barovia: Voss is Mordenkainen.

Related sessions

• Session 16
• Session 17
• Session 19
• Session 20
• Session 22
• Session 23

Gallery

• The Man Who Remembered Nothing — Voss sits beyond the shattered bars while Carver releases the black lily’s calming magic.
• Ooru’s Farewell at Har’Akir — Voss watches Ooru depart, still wearing the plain clothes of his amnesia.
• Voss Remembers Mordenkainen — Voss’s lost identity returns on the Barovian lakeshore.

Open questions

• Why was Mordenkainen imprisoned beneath Castle Avernus?
• How did he reach Darkon after Strahd cast him out of Barovia?