Elizabeth Durst

Elizabeth Durst

Rosavalda Durst (Daughter)

Elizabeth is a slender minor noblewoman of Barovia. She is the wife of Gustav Durst and the mother to Rosavalda and Thornboldt. She is often seen with a soft smile and is very reserved.

## Personality

Elizabeth is a shy, quiet, gentle noblewoman of Barovia. She doesn’t speak often, but when she does it’s quietly and most won’t notice it.

## Story

Like Gustav, Elizabeth grew up in a small minor noble house of Barovia. Having met Gustav at a young age, they were infatuated with each other and stayed sweethearts through their teenage years. Marrying each other at a young age, they had two children together: Rosavalda "Rose" Durst, and Thornboldt "Thorn" Durst. They had a very comfortable life, up until the days of the mist.

When the mists came to the Barovia, so did famine, which coupled with the fact that the citizens could no longer leave, decimated the Durst family credit and income.

Coming to the brink of starvation, Gustav called together all the nobles to have a clandestine meeting to find a solution. Debating and arguing late into the night, none could find a solution, that is until Elizabeth spoke up. Quite Elizabeth proposed a plan so hideous in nature, so simple yet so depraved that she dare not have spoken aloud had she found any other solution.

She suggested to waylay wayward travelers, pillage their resources, then kill them and eat them. The idea sparked much outrage within the meeting, but as the night went on, the more she talked the more it made sense, and by morning everyone convinced, reluctantly or otherwise .

And so come the next day they began plans to excavate the basement to commit their vile deeds in secret.

Not being a monster, Elizabeth and Gustav agreed that they must allow enough resources to keep the kids, Rose and Thorn, and their nursemaid Anya completely separated from all these events.

Weeks turned into months, months turned into years, and eventually land of Barovia adjusted to its current climate. Heartier crops began to grow and the famine became a thing of the past. Yet their taste for human flesh had only grown.

It was during these years that Elizabeth became obsessed with trying to find a way to prolong her life so that they didn’t have to rely on cannibalism any longer. Her attention was turned to the occult, specifically the cult of Lorhgoth. Her and the other noblemen that joined her cult even went to excavate more of the basement to dedicate an altar for him.

With this in mind, the cult turned to sacrificing the travelers before eating them, which Gustav began to turn away from Elizabeth and into the arms of their nursemaid Anya. And though they had a brief union, she became pregnant, to which Elizabeth found out.

Much to Gustav’s surprise, Elizabeth accepted this. Elizabeth theorizing that to truly gain Lorhgoth’s favor she must sacrifice one of as much purity and innocence as possible, or perhaps one born of deviousness having been bred from infidelity. Either way, none would be more pure or impure as a newborn baby. And on the day of Walter’s birth, the baby of Gustav and Anya, Elizabeth sent Gustav on an errand into town. Unbeknownst to him, Elizabeth took this opportunity to lock Rose and Thorn upstairs and then proceeded to brutally murder Anya. She then took Walter downstairs to be sacrificed.

She was later found and defeated as a Ghast in the basement of Durst Manor.