Rictavio

Rictavio is the alter-ego of the vampire hunter Rudolph van Richten.

In this disguise, he poses as a circus troupe leader residing at the Blue Water Inn in Vallaki. The party believed him to be the "performer" Madam Eva referred to in her fortune telling.

Rictavio carries with him an organ grinder of his own design and construction. It plays the sounds of chirping birds followed by a melody.

He appears to be friends with Blinski, ostensibly bringing him a steak from the Blue Water Inn every day. However this is, in reality, a cover for feeding his pet tiger.

Lady Wachter's sons would pay him to wake them up from their drunken stupor every morning.

Rictavio has seemed to be a staunch ally of the party. He offered them a great deal of information when they first met in Vallaki, including the legend of the Knights of the Silver Dragon and the history of Berez.

After the battle with the vampire spawn in the coffin maker's shop, Rictavio arrived and caused a distraction involving his armored saber tooth tiger. This drew the attention of the guards and allowed the party to slip back to the Blue Water Inn unnoticed.

Rictavio rescued the party a second time when they arrived in Vallaki with a crazed and bound Mordenkainen. Two suspicious guards had become hostile to the party and were starting to take them into custody when Rictavio arrived and felled them with a kind of sleeping dart.

It was after this event that Rictavio led the party to Van Richten's tower and revealed his true identity.

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