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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalani" data-source="post: 6804537" data-attributes="member: 88085">It depends on which domain you are in... Most of them are gothic in nature, but a few of them border on lovecraftian (the shadow rift comes to mind) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Also, while most of the Darklords are supernatural in nature, they are outwardly human. While rumors about their nature may abound, most citizens of a domain genuinely believe the darklords themselves to be little more than benevolent humans. In fact, Ravenloft has such a human-centric focus that non-humans are extremely rare (with the majority of non-human characters being natives of other worlds). Only a handful of domains feature nonhumans with any frequency (Sithicus being one of them with its population of elves and kender).At its heart, Ravenloft has always been about the monster beneath the skin. In fact, several dark lords are 100% human except for their immortality (a gift/curse of the Dark Powers). IIRC, there are even a handful of mortal dark lords but they tend to control small islands of terror for the most part.Many of the characters from Edgar Poe would fit in seemlessly into Ravenloft, as would the more human antagonists in Lovecraftian lore. Characters like Faust will also find themselves perfectly at home in the demiplane of Dread.</blockquote>

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