Dr. Dryden Darkwood
Cursed-antique dealer
Dr. Dryden Darkwood is a dealer in cursed antiques whose genial manner masks an opportunist. He deliberately saddles the Hero with an impossible debt to make them retrieve his robe, then has his assistant Skudly attack and imprison them. Calling himself Mysterious, he gathers villains and plans to sacrifice the Hero, hoping to stand on the winning side of a threat he believes is coming.
Read the Throne of Darkness story
Sources
Dr. Dryden Darkwood (game dialogue) · The Mysterious Reveal (game scene transcript) · Cursed Artifact Shop map