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originate from the alien domain of Bluetspur (see “Other Domains of Dread”). In seeking a cure for their degenerating elder brain, the illithids of that realm tried radical experiments. The
brain of Bluetspur.
Vampires
Horrific varieties of blood-drinking vampires spread their wickedness across the Domains of Dread.PoisonNecrotic, Psychic
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demeanor. However, his true form was that of a moldering lich, eyes ablaze with blasphemous energy.
Since arriving in the Domains of Dread, Azalin has been unable to learn new magic. For a wizard who
Domains of Dread. For generations, Azalin struggled to escape Darkon. His magical atrocities reshaped Darkon and the Domains of Dread time and again. However, these struggles gave Azalin only a glimpse of
Sahuagin Priestess
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trenches of the ocean, sahuagin view the entire aquatic realm as their kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties.
The self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are
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shallows and shore. Though they dwell in the deepest trenches of the ocean, sahuagin view the entire aquatic realm as their kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties.
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self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are massive mutant males that grow second sets of arms. They are terrible foes in battle, and all sahuagin bow down before these powerful barons.
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domains of Dread (detailed in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft):
Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s&mdash
itchy straw stuffing inside you.
Reborn in the Domains of Dread
When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following
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realm of Barovia. These travelers have learned many secrets of these domains and encountered countless others wandering amid the Shadowfell’s horrors. Most Vistani bands accept well-intentioned
cases, Mother Luba managed to ensnare beings of pure evil amid the strands of fate, imprisoning them within her tarokka deck. There these foul spirits dwell still, trapped within a nether-realm hidden
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seethes within a realm that mocks and frustrates him. Having known the rigid standards of knighthood and warfare, Soth finds Sithicus empty and chaotic, his people apathetic and undisciplined. The
elven beauty that once captivated him lies ruined, the land burns with the flames of Krynn’s Cataclysm, and the realm’s shadows remind Soth of his past failures. Worse, no worthy foes exist
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
worlds. Feywild. This vibrant, idealized realm brims with life and emotion, which are most intense in the realm’s Domains of Delight. Shadowfell. This gloom-haunted realm holds grim wastelands, haunted ruins, and the infamous Domains of Dread.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Realms of the Gods The mortal world of Theros isn’t the only realm where the gods hold sway. The mortal realm is closely linked to two other realms, the domains of the gods themselves, Nyx and the Underworld.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
People of the Mists Romain Kurdi The inhabitants of the Domains of Dread fall into these categories: Soulless Shells. Some domain inhabitants are creations of the Dark Powers. These beings are
indistinguishable from normal creatures, living unremarkable lives and existing to reinforce whatever status quo the Dark Powers impose. At the will of the Dark Powers, these inhabitants might reappear in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
process that starts by defining a Darklord—the villain at the heart of each sinister realm. Descriptions of various genres of horror also provide details to guide and inspire your creations. The rivalry between Darklords Strahd von Zarovich and
Azalin Rex spills through endless ages and countless domains
Creating Domains of Dread Ravenloft is a place where your nightmares can run wild, where anything you can imagine in moments of dread or despair can come to frightful life among the Mists. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
within their territories. The Mists slip through the Domains of Dread, rising to claim unwitting travelers or releasing terrors upon unsuspecting villagers. Most infamously, the Mists slither into other
worlds to claim innocents, villains, or whole lands, dragging them back to become the newest prisoners of Ravenloft. Inhabitants of the Domains of Dread know of the Mists and ascribe sinister stories
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Domains Hold Darklords. Domains exist to contain and torment a villain. Though Darklords exert control over their domains, they are each tormented by a personal terror playing out in their realm
Domains Sinister demiplanes known as domains constitute the realms of Ravenloft. These domains vary widely, but they share a number of common features: Domains Are Finite. The domains vary in size
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the domain. Domain Focus. For most domains, this final section highlights specific story elements and provides domain-specific tools to aid you in creating adventures around the domain’s Darklord and the horror of their realm.
Featured Domains The following sections explore some of the most notorious Domains of Dread. Each of these realms is a setting unto itself and might host adventures of your design. These featured
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
narratives that span domains can prove challenging if every realm is a world unto itself. Individuals who willfully brave the Mists to travel between domains are especially useful in your broader
Travelers in the Mists Adventures in the Domains of Dread often indulge in a single domain’s distinctly frightful themes. But if you plan to run whole campaigns set in the Land of the Mists, creating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Creating a Domain Chris Seaman Domains of Dread might be any size or shape and can draw inspiration from any horror genre Once you’ve developed a terrifying Darklord, start shaping that Darklord’s
unique Domain of Dread. Everything in this realm is inspired by the Darklord’s torment or personalized to it. This section provides guidelines to help you create a suitably terrifying and tragic Domain of Dread.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Reborn in the Domains of Dread When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains of Dread (detailed in chapter 3): Har’Akir
. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s—has taken refuge in your perfectly preserved remains. Lamordia. You awoke amid the bizarre experiments
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
up to you. This is the model largely used in earlier explorations of the setting, including Ravenloft: Realm of Terror (1990) and Domains of Dread (1997). This setting model excels if you want to
Ravenloft Setting Models What domains compose the Ravenloft setting is up to you. The Domains of Dread have no definitive map or proscribed orientation for how they relate to one another. This allows
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
lead their subjects to ruin. Most of the princes are content with their domains, but ambitious rulers such as Prince Ryger of Regalport and Prince Kolberkon of Port Verge could shatter the status quo
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
in and doomed them. Amid the realm’s surreal skies float the ruins of lost domains—among them, a city of skulls, a realm overrun by dogs, and an array of bloody, iron arenas. Echoes of domains that
exist elsewhere in the Domains of Dread also drift here, including at least one duplicate of Castle Ravenloft. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
evils claimed you, drawing you into the mists of Ravenloft? In hidden corners of the Shadowfell are nightmare domains that hunger for the brave and the innocent, the ambitious and the wicked. Some call
this collection of eerie realms the Land of the Mists, but monster hunters know it as Ravenloft. Terror, magic, mystery, and suspense fill these fractured domains, an infinite gallery of unfolding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
distant Material Plane worlds. The Outlands contain the domains of several gods, such as the hidden tower of Annam the All-Father, creator of giants, and the gaseous realm of the beholder god Gzemnid. Devout worshipers, whether alive or dead, gravitate to their gods and carry out their will.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the Domains of Dread lies a hideous realm defiant of reason and smothered by the Mists. From a violent, murky sea rises a crescent of shattered peaks, mangled spires broken like the jaws of some slain
world-rending aberrance. At the island’s hidden heart, Cthulhu lies dreaming, its alien mind reaching across the Domains of Dread and beyond, drawing to it those who might rouse its full might and unleash it from its prison in the Mists.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Magic and Metaphysics Eerie vendors such as those at the Carnival’s
Litwick Market deal in unique Mist talismans The Dark Powers manipulate the domains and creatures within their grasp in the most
fundamental ways, controlling magic, the nature of life and death, and the means of escaping from their nightmare realms. Mysterious Magic In some domains, magic is an everyday part of life, while in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The Dark Powers Unfathomable, hidden forces manipulate life, death, and reality within Ravenloft. These mysterious, deathless beings are the architects of the Domains of Dread, and have secreted
Ravenloft, but they are unknown to mortals and desire no worship. Despite the control the Dark Powers exert, these beings remain distant from the domains they manipulate. Although some of their names
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
run their adventures, all within the relatively mundane realm of the Material Plane. Beyond that plane are domains of raw elemental matter and energy, realms of pure thought and ethos, the homes of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Fantasy Villains Villains occupy places of prominence or control in dark fantasy domains. This manifests as political control, military authority, or physical or magical might that allows them
subterranean people who plots to manipulate the moon to blot out the sun’s searing light
3 A high priest intent on shifting an entire nation into their god’s otherworldly realm
4 A desperate general
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
and Pan’s Labyrinth. Dark Fantasy Principles Consider the following principles when creating Darklords and domains with dark fantasy themes: Evil Sometimes Triumphs. Good doesn’t always win. Evil
—characters tainted by the world’s evil or those who refuse to be considered heroes. Dark Fantasy Villains Sinister individuals leave their marks on dark fantasy domains, whether with oppressive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
planes of existence. It encompasses every world where Dungeon Masters run their adventures, all within the relatively mundane realm of the Material Plane. Beyond that plane are domains of raw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Undead haunt this bleak plane, as do other creatures that thrive in the gloom, including cloakers and darkmantles. Julian Kok The Shadowfell is a realm of death, despair, and dread Shadow Crossings Shadow
in darkness, closing as soon as they feel light’s kiss. Domains of Dread In a far-flung corner of the Shadowfell drifts a hidden expanse of roiling mist and vague semireality. At this eerie edge of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
, but you should also consider the following questions: Character Origins. Do the characters originate from the Domains of Dread, or were they abducted from somewhere else? Context for Surreality. Do the
characters realize something is strange about the Domains of Dread, or is the Land of the Mists all they’ve ever known? Scale of Experience. Do the characters know about a single domain—perhaps one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
release of the adventure Ravenloft, the sequel adventure, Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill, debuted. The adventure pulled back the Mists on the domain of Mordent, a realm of terrors beyond Barovia
book. With the House on Gryphon Hill, Barovia and Mordent paved the way for Ravenloft to become a vast and varied setting encompassing dozens of Domains of Dread.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
untold eons, Cthulhu’s will influenced receptive minds across the multiverse, reaching out in dreams and using them to open gateways to the Far Realm. Through such portals, Cthulhu visited the Material
violent minds linked to its own. These disparate nightmares became the foundation of its prison: a surreal island hidden amid the Domains of Dread.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Nightmare Lands Darklord: The Nightmare Court
Hallmarks: Nightmares, recurring dreams
Any who sleep might become forever trapped in the Nightmare Lands, a phantasmagoric realm whose features
, creating the Nightmare Court. Deep within the City of Nod, inside a warped reimagining of the clinic where she once worked, Caroline sleeps without waking, refusing to face the terrors her dreams unleash on innocents across the Domains of Dread and beyond.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Fantasy Plots Adventures in dark fantasy domains involve unlikely or reluctant heroes (or rival villains) striking back against the evil at work in the land. This might involve taking on a world
individuals.
2 Seal a portal to a demonic realm that opens within the mouth of an innocent acolyte.
3 Cure a virus turning people into shadows.
4 Mount a defense against the swarm of giant