Ilya Krezkov

In Curse Of Strahd, the Pack visited Krezk and promised the Krezkovs to investigate The Abbot who resided in the Abbey of Saint Markovia. They found that The Abbot was a mad Deva; though Shakti of the Wildhunt told Dmitri that it was not worth seeing The Abbot as he was mad, Ghalwin believed in the Angel's abilities. He told the Burgomaster that The Abbot had promised him miracles, and if they were true, he would use a favor to raise Ilya from the dead. After months, Ghalwin did not return, but this hope sparked Dmitri and Anna to action. They dug up Ilya's decomposed body and brought it to the Abbey.

Though The Abbot initially denied trying to raise the boy, as he needed an intact body, Dmitri's pleas moved him, and he promised to raise him. Working through the night, The Abbot succeeded in his task, and Ilya stumbled down the mountain switchback to Krezk the next morning. The crazed deva was not aware of what happened to Ilya during the raising process; the body's body was composed of various types of animal flesh stretched over pieces of wood, and imbued with the animative qualities of a Flesh Golem. 

His soul had been claimed from the mists of Barovia, but remnants of Vampyr still lingered in the boy and fundamentally altered his desire to consume. Ilya was Cursed with an eternal All-Consuming Hunger, an Undead spirit trapped within his stomach in negative space. He slowly grew extra mouths that contained rows of sharp teeth that lead only to an endless void, desperate to be satiated. 

However, a strong illusion altered his complexion significantly, and Ilya looked a regular boy, even healthier than he was in life. The toll that the raising had taken on Ilya did not become apparent for a few days after, as the boy was initially exhausted and refused to eat, but he eventually developed a ravenous appetite. Only Anna knew the truth about how much Ilya was eating: eventually, she began tricking the village shepherd Oleg Barbu and stealing his Sheep. As baroness, she knew that the village would need these resources to survive the coming winter, but as a mother could not let Ilya remain in hunger and pain.

Eventually, Heralds of Dawn visited the village, and began investigating the village's missing sheep. Ilya was enraptured by the adventurers, as he had a boyish desire to become and adventurer himself, and was particularly enthralled with the tales of Ghalwin of the Grove and Mormeros Fayan. He told Mormeros that his favorite animal was a Horse, and the Devilborn conjured an illusion of a Unicorn; Ilya named the unicorn Beucephalus, though he did not know how or why he liked that name. Ghalwin also applied a magic Spell to a toy sword of his, allowing him to cut clean through his family's table, but he was quickly ushered off to bed.

The next day, in ravenous hunger, Ilya ate the remaining two dozen of Oleg's flock, but was still not sated. In tears, he turned to eating people, and ripped off the leg of Eugenija Fidatovna when she investigated; this was seen by Tobias Villie Broadnose Cogsmith, as well as a crowd of people that had gathered behind them. He was revealed to be a monster, and the adventurers fought him, finding he possessed a golem's constitution and fury. In battle, he spit poison and rot from his void-maw, and tore off the arm of Ajuni Elajoral with a single bite as he jumped with supernatural strength.

He went after the crowd, but was trapped in a block of darkness by Mormeros, allowing Ghalwin to attack the boy unseen. Incredibly injured, he jumped to escape, but his maw turned to attack the group against his will. Before it could again spit his poison, Mormeros blasted him apart with a massive ball of fire. Destroyed, Ilya asked if he could see Beucephalus, but the tiefling offered him no comfort as his skeleton crumbled into dust.