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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8268216" data-attributes="member: 5948">Paridon/Zherisia is the obvious urban-London analog domain in Ravenloft, complete with Jack the Ripper rip-off.  It was really only written up properly in modules though - Hour of the Knife in the 2e era, and Shadow of the Knife in 3e, which was never formally published but completed as some sort of community project and is available for free download on Fraternity of Shadows.  As we've discussed/argued extensively in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/reading-ravenloft-the-setting.678626/" target="_blank">this thread</a>, Ravenloft demographics as written make no sense whatsoever.  Seriously, just ignore the published numbers, they're utter dribble.  Hell, Paridon's canonical population is only 11000, and that's just nonsensical in the context of a major 1800s-era city.  You could very easily multiply all the published Ravenloft populations by 10 and the setting would be much more internally consistent.  I do agree that the Core was missing a major urban setting though, from a thematic point of view.  Dementlieu was sometimes portrayed as a Paris-analog and played that role, though again, the population numbers are too low for it to make sense.  But Mordent is crying out for a London-analog - I've often thought that both domains would have been improved if one of the various conjunctions or setting rearrangements deposited Paridon next to Mordent and fused the two into a single political entity, even if they remained distinct domains.  Hell, put pre-DoD industrial hell Nosos in there too.</blockquote>

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