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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8269425" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I disagree. First off, you can use the History proficiency to learn things that occurred in the false history. The fact that the DPs made it up before sticking it in the history books doesn't make it non-useful. because the Dark Powers also created the artifacts and ruins associated with that history. If you find the ancient sword Goblyn-Smacker created a thousand years ago and was used in the Y Wars between the goblyns and the vampyrs of 55 BC (Barovian Calender), then it honestly doesn't matter that there were no Y Wars. The DPs made the sword, along with the disturbingly well-preserved vampyr corpse you wrested it from, and invented the history to go with it.Secondly, since each domain is centered on its Darklord more than anything else, it's OK if things that found in it center around it--although they don't have to. The false histories of the domains often don't have a huge amount to do with the actual Darklord. They're just the setup. Because of that, you can have Goblyn-Smacker show up in the crypt in Mordent, even if that makes no sense for the domain itself, because the false history declares that Goblyn-Smacker's owner retired there and was buried with the blade. Thirdly, don't forget that Ravenloft is not a natural world. It's literally the creation of the Dark Powers for their own inscrutable purposes.</blockquote>