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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from

Stuff to Blow Your Mind, focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

For today's episode, I turned once more to the world of Dungeons and Dragons, and a particular

Ravenloft monster that I remember quite fondly from my own monstrous compendium binder from

way back in the day.

The creature was the crimson death, known in other editions of D&D, including fifth edition,

as the vampiric mist.

It is typically described as a pale or gray mist, otherwise indistinguishable from mundane fog,

but it is in reality an undead vampiric entity.

It creeps up on unwary victims, envelops them in tentacles of mist,

and then begins to draw the blood from their body, even through their very skin pores, staining its

vaporous substance, ever deeper shades of pink and red in the process,

eventually raining droplets of blood like a heavy sanguine cloud.

The monster's compendium entry lists several possible origins for the crimson death.

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