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Interesting idea, the concept of a freshly formed domain waiting for a darklord to be chosen from a fleeing villain and the dark anti-hero pursuing him was one explored in Black Crusade, available for download here: https://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/BlackCrusade.pdf . The seed idea is also a little ...

I wouldn't be surprised if some of Klorr's contraptions showed up in other worlds (although since Klorr was a planar traveler, it might not technically count.)

There's a bit somewhere in the lore where stolen Darkonian currency (Gaz III?) can cause fear checks even outside of the Demiplane of Dread.

I read up a bit on Van Richten's Guide to Fiends and thought it interesting how many fiends are 'smaller scale' than the usual power level in D&D. While I understand that this was done intentionally to preserve the horror (as horror is easier to pull off at level 2 than level 20), it got the ge...

I have Nosos connected with Zherisia in a setup similar to the Shining Bay Cluster from QtR 2, with additional material as needed taken from the FoS Zherisia stuff. In addition, Immerabt (from the Undead Sea Scrolls 2002) is part of the cluster, with its darklord having common origins but entirely o...

As alluded to above, dark fantasy is briefly discussed as as genre, with some random ideas for villains, locations, and plot threads, in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. As far what I'd think Ravenloft would be like if it fully embraced a fantasy horror, I can think of a few implications: -closer c...

Some ghosts of a lawful bent to go with some of the more chaotic/neutral sounding ones above: -A ghost knight that betrayed and killed his master out of the master's perceived impurities, now doomed to forever seek new masters only to repeat the process. -the insidious leader of a martyrdom cult tha...

Generally speaking I try to minimize rather than wholesale eliminate monsters- admittedly the Tarrasque is probably something I'd avoid using in almost all but the most specific of set-ups. In Ravenloftseque games I generally try to minimize the use of mid to high level extraplanar beings- the lower...

I think the differences between Celeste and Dominic are pretty important in differentiating what their curses (and powers) would be. Dominic plays people against each other out of boredom and malice/spite, whereas Celeste simply wants power and prestige. She recognizes that Dominic has some sort of ...

Is there Hope in the box, like in the original myth? Is it a positive Hope, or something of false expectations/empty promises/wishful thinking/lotus eater type enthrallment? Apparently there is some disagreement as to the meaning in the original myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box Fo...

As far as canon materials go, Al Kathos was only ever featured in the one-off short story "the Judgement of Al Malmat in Tales of Ravenloft, and most of the details outside of those connected to the Wounded City or Abd-al-Mamat are pretty sketchy- Malbus, the Rotting Gods, etc. are mentioned br...

I'm not sure there's any canon 1:1 year match ups between those worlds and Ravenloft. From the intro to Mangrum's timeline: Forgotten Realms has been slightly problematic in the past. Until recently, the only source for a Realms anchor date was the novel Vampire of the Mists. This offered a solid an...

Vocar the Obedient, Vecna's lead cleric in his hidden cult in Tor Gorak/Tovag, seems like would be the type that would lead an apocalyptic cult and appeared as the main villain in Vecna Reborn. However, he was pretty fanatically loyal to Vecna so it would be hard to imagine him turning against Vecna...

As for adventures being built around set pieces... well, if you stop and think about it, the high lethality and lack of "encounter-breaking" via nerfs to most utility spells in older editions actually geared Ravenloft adventures in general towards very "story-centric" battles, r...

Where did Sabrina learn to render people the Cleansed? Was that a gift from the Friend? A power she received upon becoming darklord?

Comments on the races: On the origins of your Mistlings, you may wish to keep their origin opaque given the nebulous nature of Ravenloft, through the existence of multiple creation stories/myths, to provide some differentiation between various sub-factions/groups within your Mistling society. As for...