The bloody axe

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 148953

 
> Allie again:
> 
> Ah, good thought!  I always assumed the Baron was covered in his 
own 
> blood, but I guess it could be someone else's blood!  Is there any 
> canon one way or the other?  An interview I've missed somewhere?  

Hickengruendler:

Not that I know of.

But I, too, assumed, that he was covered in his own blood. Mostly 
because he is, well, dead. And I suppose the ghosts are wearing the 
clothes they wore, when they died. Therefore I assumed he died in 
this robes and that's were all the blood comes from.

Of course it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe he and someone else 
killed each other while fighting. Or he died on his way back after 
the killing, before he had time to change clothes. Or the blood is 
symbolical, and all ghosts, who in their life murdered somebody, have 
to wear it as some kind of mark.