Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8211333" data-attributes="member: 6915329">You mixed us up. I actually rather like the Island idea. It's an idea that's been floating around in my head for about a decade now, but I've always been too lazy to actually do something about it. Although I'd have more reliable Mistways and roads leading from one domain to the other. Mind you, roads wouldn't be entirely reliable either.OK, first off, the countries in the Core are culturally similar in the way European countries are culturally similar.Mordent is basically the English countryside, complete with moors to stay off of, but with a teensy bit eldritch horror (in the form of Creepy Old Families That Died Out In Mysterious Circumstances). Dementlieu is Paris (specifically, Gay Paree, with lots of emphasis on The Arts and scholarly learning), and Richemulot is countryside France.The writers at some point decided that Mordentish, the language, contains both "High Mordentish" (based on French) and "Low Mordentish" (based on Old English, I believe); the two are treated as a single language. Because of the French aspects of Mordentish, the writers decided that Dementlieu and Richemulot (and some other places) speak it as well. It might be worth mentioning that the Darklord of Dementlieu, Dominic d'Honaire, was born in Mordent, so it also makes sense he'd carry his language with him.One of the native religions of Ravenloft, the Church of Ezra, has been spread throughout the Domains since late 2e. While the Church (which was only founded less than 200 years ago) has a singular focus, it has four major sects, each of which emphasizes separate things. The Dementlieu sect is True Neutral and scholarly while the Mordentish sect is Lawful Good and about redemption.Lamordia is Mad Science Switzerland. Complete with neutrality; they're the only domain that has a nonaggression treaty with Falkovnia.Zherisia was never actually part of the Core (it's a Cluster that contains a wasteland, the city of Paridon, and Timor, which is the sewers beneath Paridon), Paridon is based on London (and a bit of Paris, but in the Big City sense, not the cultural sense). Bleutspur didn't have a culture (eldritch wasteland above, mind flayers below), and the Nightmare Lands are a chaotic, fantasy Australian Aboriginal Dreamlands turned nightmare which don't also need to be a physical location.The Dark Powers both reward and punish evil (and the punishment is always worse than the reward is good). Some of these people are brought in from the outside, but others are home grown. Not everyone is turned into a Darklord. Some people are turned into monsters or suffer some other horrible curse for their deeds. In some cases, it's hard to tell if the person was punished by the Dark Powers or simply suffered the natural results of their own ill deeds.The Dark Powers have never been statted out. We don't know what they are, what they want--even what their alignment is. We don't even know if they're a unified force.Also, when they create a new Domain, they are literally creating a new Domain. They don't take bits from another Darklord's Domain. Except when Necropolis was formed, but that was a special case.</blockquote>

Verification