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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jabborwacky" data-source="post: 6849074" data-attributes="member: 98608">Its entirely just speculation that changes with each iteration of Ravenloft. From what I've gathered over the years, Barovia's homeworld would have been a setting embracing a very romanticized kind of fantasy compared to the standard D&D setting. The world was without a doubt low-magic in the sense that few people ever encountered a real wizard. The Death's House adventure tends to support this even in the new edition. [sblock]The cultists don't know how to summon a real demon because the actual means to do so are either nonexistent in the world they came from or so hidden as to make it mercifully impossible. They worship Strahd as a god as well, which further demonstrates just how rare the supernatural must be in Barovia's world of origin.[/sblock]Yeah, pretty much all we can confirm is that magic is highly restricted or very rare on Barovia's home world. It took a ruler ordering his subordinates to find just one or two wizards to help him with his castle. The gods could be very withdrawn from affairs or just outright dead, considering no deity intervened to protect the countless innocents spirited away by the dark powers to live out their lives in the same prison as an immortal vampire.</blockquote>