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Benedict Von Barrington

CanonOfficial lore from the books▶ Actual play

Benedict Von Barrington is the only doctor of the small town of Osterhn in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign. His practice lies in the Market Quarter, where two attendants at a closed door let in visitors who looked well dressed and wealthy. He is a well-dressed human with thin, whitened hair, and keeps a plague doctor's mask among his things.123

The house

He lives in a wooden mansion bearing a family arms of a great B on a red shield, with a door knocker in the shape of an eagle; the companions did not recognise the arms as those of a family of the White City or of the region. A servant in plain but fine black clothes admitted them, and a nurse wearing the cauldron and olive branch of Amarath and the gods of the earth noted their complaints. The examination room held a couch, a worktable and crude metal tools like bone saws, and under the stairs a cellar door was shut with eight locks. From behind it came a faint, steady hum and now and then the clang of metal, but no human voice. Upstairs a dining room with a fireplace and a closed balcony looked out on the garden and the stable.45678

Reputation

The acolyte Nordman of the temple said the doctor's remedies worked but were far too dear for the poor and for people of middling means. Exalon said he cared for no one but himself, loved money, and would not give medicine free even in a plague. The hunters said he asked them for parts of their deer that they would normally throw away. Against this, the witch hunter Godfrey, his friend, said the doctor had mended his broken bones and his shaken spirit in three weeks and never asked him for money. The doctor himself held that medicine had advanced, that no one else in the town could be trusted to heal, the priests included, and that the wrong dose is a poison.910111213

The remedy

He gave Sarah Lia Galanodel a foul-tasting painkiller that might bring sleep and dizziness, and invited the companions to dinner with Godfrey. In private he told Kemp Corvus that with the full moon near he liked to have someone with silver bullets close by.141516

To Gerurt he explained the remedy that had kept Finart from changing. The herbs were needed but not enough: it also took blood, which he drew from a calm human whose mind was gone and only whose body lived, and he had found how to draw it again and again without killing the donor. Finart's mother had paid for it not in money but with knowledge of where things could be found, and had missed her monthly visits. One vial, in a skilled hand, made two months of doses; if they brought the herbs and a mixing bowl of old local wood, he could prepare it. He agreed to try one vial of the blood in exchange for Exalon's blood, which Exalon called strange, but showed no interest in Ephorus's.17181920

When Ephorus came by night with the herbs, the doctor's hand shook as he worked the mortar. He turned to a cupboard, took a glowing green powder from a hidden chamber in his ring and sniffed it; for a moment his eyes shone green and his hand grew steady. He worked herbs and blood from a black paste into a pale grey one, said it made two doses, and handed it over in a box. Exalon later named the dangerous substance as çarpma taşı ("striking stone").212223

Ephorus later used the same secret signal to sell him one of the eggs found among the mushrooms of a cave, and the doctor paid from his strongbox. They spoke of long life and of meeting again, and Ephorus found it strange how sure the doctor seemed that he would still be there years later.242526

Spoiler: What Sarah sawSpoils: Sürgün Günlükleri #7; Sürgün Günlükleri #8; Sürgün Günlükleri #12 · Say what you have read
Spoiler: Flight and endSpoils: Sürgün Günlükleri #15; Sürgün Günlükleri #16; Sürgün Günlükleri #25; Sürgün Günlükleri #27; Sürgün Günlükleri #28 · Say what you have read

Notes

  1. ↑At the tableKüçük Osterhn | DnD 5E Oynanış #1 (Sürgün Günlükleri #1), 1:43:36
  2. ↑At the tableKüçük Osterhn | DnD 5E Oynanış #1 (Sürgün Günlükleri #1), 1:43:43
  3. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 48:57
  4. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 40:34
  5. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 42:40
  6. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 47:06
  7. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 1:48:52
  8. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 1:51:10
  9. ↑At the tableKüçük Osterhn | DnD 5E Oynanış #1 (Sürgün Günlükleri #1), 2:34:27
  10. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 1:39:17
  11. ↑At the tableKüçük Osterhn | DnD 5E Oynanış #1 (Sürgün Günlükleri #1), 3:56:47
  12. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:16:59
  13. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 50:36
  14. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 52:33
  15. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 1:53:36
  16. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 1:55:51
  17. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:03:15
  18. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:05:04
  19. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:05:37
  20. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:33:55
  21. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:38:21
  22. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 2:39:55
  23. ↑At the tableKocakarı İksiri | DnD 5E Oynanış #2 (Sürgün Günlükleri #2), 3:11:46
  24. ↑At the tableDerinkök Mağaraları | DnD 5E Oynanış #3 (Sürgün Günlükleri #3), 2:34:55
  25. ↑At the tableDerinkök Mağaraları | DnD 5E Oynanış #3 (Sürgün Günlükleri #3), 3:42:55
  26. ↑At the tableDerinkök Mağaraları | DnD 5E Oynanış #3 (Sürgün Günlükleri #3), 3:45:47
  27. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 1:28:06
  28. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 1:29:36
  29. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 1:30:42
  30. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 2:49:13
  31. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 2:51:40
  32. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 2:53:27
  33. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 2:54:58
  34. ↑At the tableEsaretin Bedeli | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Sürgün Günlükleri #7), 2:56:36
  35. ↑At the tableKarşı Saldırı | DnD 5E Oynanış #8 (Sürgün Günlükleri #8), 1:22:06
  36. ↑At the tableOsthern Muharebesi | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Sürgün Günlükleri #12), 2:18:14
  37. ↑At the tableOsthern Muharebesi | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Sürgün Günlükleri #12), 2:40:21
  38. ↑At the tableOsthern Muharebesi | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Sürgün Günlükleri #12), 2:58:20
  39. ↑At the tableOsthern Muharebesi | DnD 5E Oynanış #12 (Sürgün Günlükleri #12), 3:07:26
  40. ↑At the tableBazı Şeylerin Sonu | DnD 5E Oynanış #15 (Sürgün Günlükleri #15), 3:21:58
  41. ↑At the tableBazı Şeylerin Sonu | DnD 5E Oynanış #15 (Sürgün Günlükleri #15), 3:43:17
  42. ↑At the tableElveda Osthern | DnD 5E Oynanış #16 (Sürgün Günlükleri #16), 37:30
  43. ↑At the tableEve Giden Yol | DnD 5E Oynanış #25 (Sürgün Günlükleri #25), 2:13:56
  44. ↑At the tableEve Giden Yol | DnD 5E Oynanış #25 (Sürgün Günlükleri #25), 3:12:44
  45. ↑At the tableKan | DnD 5E Oynanış #27 (Sürgün Günlükleri #27), 2:38:28
  46. ↑At the tableKan | DnD 5E Oynanış #27 (Sürgün Günlükleri #27), 2:40:41
  47. ↑At the tableKan | DnD 5E Oynanış #27 (Sürgün Günlükleri #27), 2:42:02
  48. ↑At the tableFırtına Sonrası | DnD 5E Oynanış #28 (Sürgün Günlükleri #28), 22:46

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