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Tepest | |
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Culture Level | ? |
Ecology | Full |
Climate & Terrain | Temperate forests, hills, plains |
Year Formed | 691 BC |
Population | ? |
Races (%) | Humans ?, ? |
Languages | Tepestani |
Religions | Church of Belenus |
Government | x |
Ruler(s) | x |
Darklord(s) | The Three Hags of Tepest |
Nationality | {{{nationality}}} |
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"It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in [Satanic] witches; there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there."
--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
WIKISEED FROM CATALOGUE : Home of Maeve(Please edit freely, then remove this note and WIKISEED label)
Things, Creatures & Personnages of Legend
- The East Timori Road
- The Descent carved into the face of the Shadow Rift
Biology
Flora
Fauna
- Wolves
Native Horrors
Geography
Note: The above map have serious inaccuraties when compared to that used in the 3rd edition of Ravenloft.
Weather
Terrain
Hills
Canyons
The Shadow Rift, the mother of all canyons
Forests[1]
The forests of Tepest are ancient. The trees are hardwoods, principally oak, beech and hazelnut, with the occasional spruce or pine. Inexplicably, the trees tend to grow strong, healthy, bent and warped all at once, often with gnarled branches that are so twisted as to recall withered hands. They grow so thickly over head as to condemn the forest floor to perpetual gloom.
- The Brujamonte ("Hag's Wood") or Blackwood stands south of Viktal, between the Vaughn Dnar River and the Blackmist River. Both the Vistani and the goblins are said to avoid it, to say nothing of the Tepestani. It is home to the dread treant Blackroot.
- The Goblinwood
- The Tanglewood
- The Wormwood stands south of the South Dnar River in southeastern Tepest and reaches across the frontier into Nova Vaasa where it gradually thins and ultimately gives way to the Elendighedmark ("Plain of Misery"). It harbours goblins, Hala's witches, Vaasi bandits (near its eastern fringes), and the three hag sisters (at is heart) who are the Darklords of Tepest.[2]
- The Wretchwood
- The Wytchwood
Lakes
The Kronov which never freezes
Communication
Rivers
Dnar River System
The Sydligdnar ("South Dnar River") is navigable, although not without difficulty in both directions owing to its current, with small ships between the Nocturnal Sea and the docks at Kantora. With the right winds, the Sydligdnar can be sailed. Otherwise it must be rowed. The Vaughn Dnar and the Dnar are too deep to be forded as they merge to form the Sydligdnar. Bridges consistent with small ships pose a manifest engineering problem, but none are mentioned, so ferry service for river crossings would make sense. A ferry service is known to exist between the docks of Kantora and the port of Guldstrand Beach on the sea at the foot of Egertus.
The Vaughn Dnar River is navigable, although surely with progressively smaller craft as one climbs past the Borchava River and the Trished River on the way to Liara. The Vaughn Dnar is not navigable in Tepest as its waters plunge through shallow but sinuous and boulder strewn gorges.
The East Timori Road remains on the south shore of the Vaughn Dnar from Kantora until just after the Trished River, inviting the hypothesis that at that point either the Vaughn Dnar becomes fordable or has a bridge thrown across it that doesn't greatly harm river traffic. To reach that point, the East Timori Road crosses the Borchava River, suggesting that the Borchava is either more fordable than the Vaughn Dnar or that a bridge thrown across the Borchava would do less harm to river traffic than one thrown over the Vaughn Dnar. In Liara there is at least one bridge over the Vaughn Dnar. There are four ancient stone bridges built over the river between the Tepestani frontier and Lake Kronov.
- The Trished River
- The Little Borchava River
- The Borchava River has as its tributary the Little Borchava River
- The Vaughn Dnar River has as its tributary the Trished River and Borchava River
- The Dnar River
- The Sydligdnar ("South Dnar River") has as its tributaries the Vaughn Dnar River and the Dnar River
Roads
- The East Timori Road runs from Egertus, through Kantora and Liara, and into Tepest where it is cut short by the Shadow Rift.
Note: Efforts, subject to continual sabatoge, are underway to cut a road through Tepest and Keening to the Strigos Road in Darkon.
Fractures
Principe one to and from Shadow Rift
Landmarks
Frontiers
Darkon
? The Forgotten Hills
Nova Vaasa
- The Wormwood
- The Vaesen Foothills
The Shadow Rift
? The Vaesen Foothills of northwestern Nova Vaasa are the foothills of the Balinoks from vanished Markovia. They front the Shadow Rift.
Population Distribution
Towns
Villages
Authority
Darklord
- The Three Hags of Tepest - Laveeda, Leticia and Lorinda Mindefisk
Temporal Rule
Legendary
Contempory
Spiritual Rule
Legendary
Contempory
Church and State
Government
Law
Law-Enforcement
Extra-Judicial
Intelligence Gathering
Military Footing
Casus belli
Past
- The Great Upheaval in 740 BC sparked an inquisition against the fey who were its "cause" and in particular where "responsible" for the disappearance of G'Henna and Markovia. This is actually closer to the truth than it appears, for Gwydion the Sorcerer-Fiend literally dragged the kingdom of Niurin Scaa and the Arak with it to its current position, displacing the lands of G'Henna and Markovia in the process.
Present
- Repeated attacks by an unidentified party (or parties) on Vaasi efforts to cut a road through Tepest into Keening and on to the Strigos Road in Darkon. There is discussion among the Nova Vaasans of the need to civilize the Tepestani.
Future
Language & Culture
Gods and Religions
God - Focus - Domains
Inns & Taverns
NPC
References
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer V, p47.
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer V, p47,166.
Chronology
BC
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
Ravenloft Third Edition | ||
Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,51-54 | ||
Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp8-9 |