Baron Vorsphy

The Tale of Baron Vorsphy is a ghost story originating in what is now the Southern Republic of Casoria, but has spread and been retold in many different cultures, some already possessing a story like it. Although disregarded as a myth, the volume of sightings as well as the diversity of cultures they have been reported in have convinced many.
The tale describes a Baron who strides into a new town declaring that he wishes to sell his castle in the neighbouring barony. Although most are reluctant to believe that this man is truly the Baron, knowing little of the neighbouring region, they take his word. After a few days people begin to go missing, reports of a strange shadow stalking the town begin to circulate and the town confront this Baron. They claim he is responisble for these horrendous crimes and hang him. The following day, another person goes missing, this time however they are found, dead. Scratched into their stomach is No Escape.
Realizing their mistake the townsfolk set light to their town and each flee across their world, each vowing never to settle in the same place again, and never to speak to each other again. Men leave wives, brothers leave sisters, parents abandon children. Decades pass and new generations are born, although all over the world seemingly unconnected murders begin to occur. Children, adults, the elderly taken from their beds, from alleys and from busy streets and found dead the next day, No Escape carved in their stomach.
It is said that the Baron was a con man, and the murders were never his doing. In murdering him in anger the people had killed an innocent man, who demanded justice. Called' 'Baron Vorsphy he stalks the land seeking descendents of his murders, so far down the years anyone could be a child of a murderer. Anyone. No Escape.
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