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Baron Theodore Mildenhall is an NPC that was first teased in POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE before making his official debut in The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor as the main antagonist of the adventure.
Appearance[]
Baron Mildenhall appears in the cellar as a mummified corpse, with no eyes inside his eye sockets. However, he mainly talks to the players through various tape recorders scattered throughout the Mildenhall Manor.
Personality[]
At first, Baron Mildenhall appears to be a helpful, late guide for the players, warning Kinger and Pomni of the dangers about a creature that had been haunting his manor for years. He slowly grew more paranoid as he was trying to kill the monster, even mistaking his own wife for the creature and killing her accidentally.
In reality, Baron is a cunning and manipulative spirit that lured the unwitting players into a trap, so that he could take control over their bodies and free himself from the Hall of the Damned.
Baron appears to be well-mannered and speaks in a calm tone, even when revealing his true goals. He remains well-mannered to Kinger and Pomni. He additionally agrees not to scare Pomni, which he ironically ends up doing.
Biography[]
Baron Mildenhall is first heard in a log found in his trophy room. In it, he describes how his hunting hobby gradually evolved into a paranoid obsession. Evidentially, the "creature" that now hangs over his mantle had been tormenting him and his family for years, and the strain of the constant hunt began to wear on him. He describes being filled with an "inescapable dread" that haunted him the entire time, hoping it would go away once the creature was done in. However, once he eventually did kill it (or so he thought), the impending feeling of dread did not go away.
He is heard again as Pomni and Kinger search his den for the lift key. Dated December 4th, he describes how, when he turned his back from the creature's decapitated corpse as he was performing an autopsy, it vanished without a trace, alive and eager to reclaim it's lost head. He warns the listener to never let the head out of their sight.
Baron is encountered for a third time in the manor's wine cellar. Not only is there a third log, but Baron himself, or what remains of him, sits poised at the back of the room with a shotgun in hand. In the log, he tells of his worsening mental condition. In a fit of paranoid mania, he mistook his wife, Martha, for the creature and shot her to death. Now alone with nothing but his own thoughts, he retreated to his cellar to protect himself, lying in wait for the creature, vowing to take it by surprise and enact his revenge.
Evidentially, this never happened, and he passed away alone in the dark. As penance for the murder of his wife, he went directly to Hell. At some point, he came to the realization that the creature he had spent his latter years chasing and fearing was actually one of God's Angels.
Trivia[]
- He's most often represented as a Tape Recorder, as Baron in his current state is nigh-immobile and was also likely too frightening to be shown for too long. As such, he only has one non-prerecorded line.