Richemulot
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| Richemulot | |
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| Culture Level | Chialric (8) |
| Ecology | Full |
| Climate & Terrain | Temperate Forests, Hills, and Plains |
| Year Formed | 694 BC |
| Population | 45,300 |
| Races (%) | Humans (93%), Halflings (5%), Half-Vistani (1%), Other (1%) |
| Languages | Mordentish, Halfling, Balok, Falkovnian |
| Religions | Ezra, Hala |
| Government | Heriditary aristocracy |
| Ruler(s) | Jacqueline Renier |
| Darklord(s) | Jacqueline Renier |
| Nationality | Richemuloise |
| Analog | Rural France |
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A domain where life is centered around seemingly egalitarian, urban life, Richemulot is a nation based more on merit than material wealth. The citizens are able to leave mostly clean lives without fear of the overt oppression or abuse of other lands. Yet beneath this facade of opportunity and equality, corruption festers like a hidden tumor. From the sewers beneath the streets to the closed doors of the elite, wererats and other horrors eat at Richemulot in secret.
Geography
Richemulot is a domain within the Core of Ravenloft, sometimes classified as part of the the Southern Core[1] Though the majority of its land is covered in forests, the majority of the population reside in and around three urban communities: Pont-a-Museau, Ste Ronges, and Mortigny.[2] Though the total population of Richemulot numbers into the tens of thousands[3] and dwarfs the populations of neighboring domains[4], the number of abandoned and bricked up houses seem to indicate the population was once much larger. With empty structures that could hold a third more people,[2], the atmosphere of Richemulot's urban communities is strangely (and perhaps disturbingly) quiet given their relative populations. The origins of Richemulot's depopulation remain unknown[3]. Even magic fails to divine Richemulot's (false) history (and often in a horrific fashion).[5]
Culture and Society
Richemulot is a Chivalric cultural level with a culture that values intelligence, guile, and professionalism[6]. As such, Richemulot has much more of a cultural affinity to Borca, Dementlieu, and Mordent than to the comparatively brutish and hostile Falkovnia[7], the latter of which has attempted an invasion twice.[8] As a signature of the Treaty of Four Towers, Richemulot is one of the nations entered into an allied defense against Falkovnian aggression. However, the diplomatic policies of Jacqueline Renier remain more elusive, as she has had some diplomatic dealings with Vlad Drakov. The details of these negotiations are not particularly transparent.[7]
Despite the clear rule by the nobility, Richemuloise society shows less signs of social inequity or social excesses that might characterize other realms. The majority of people can afford a reasonably secure roof and clean living space. Thanks in part to the Richemuloise valuation of knowledge and skill over affluence and wealth, Richemulot's cosmopolitan remains a haven for immigrants and even refugees from other lands.[6]
Eark secrets and elements of corruption remain hidden inside the atmosphere of opportunity. Those imperceptive of the social landscape of Richemulot often wind up a part of the silent lower class, a hidden population of debtors that go unnoticed by their neighbors.[6] The importance of information is eclipsed by a specific type of information: rumors, gossip, and the type of information that can be used to subvert or destroy. The truly powerful in Richemulot are elite not by material property but rather by secret knowledge. Within the shadows of this society of secrets, there dwells perhaps the true masters of Richemuloise society, that of the wererats. Richemloise culture and legend portrays them as filthy, disgusting savages that dwell in rat warrens beneath the streets of Richemulot. However, this accounts for only part of their number.[9] Their treatment as murderous bogeymen masks the wererats that have infiltrated the movers and shakers of Richemulot's aristocratic society and use their dark knowledge of both human and rat sides to corrupt society for their own ends.[10] The Renier Family is at top of the heap, with the crafty Jacqueline Renier as the matriarch of both her family and the nation. She is recognized as a tyrant but also respected as a great maternal symbol of Richemuloise patriotism.[11]
Things, Creatures & Personages of Legend
Biology
Flora
Fauna
Native Horrors
- Berbalang[12][13]
- Cloakers[12][13]
- Goblins[12][13]
- Lycanthrope, Wererat[12][13]
- Lycanthropes, Other (rarer)[12][13]
- Skeletons[12][13]
- Wight[12][13]
- Zombie[12][13]
Geography
Chronology
- 691 BC Claude Renier and his wererats enter the Land of Mists from the world that spawned the domain of Mordent. The wererats first turn up in Silverbas, Falkovnia.[14]
- 691 BC: Falkovnia faces two threats in Silbervas: a rising thieves' guild and an infestation of wererats. They are both led by the Clawed. The period of Falkovnian history known as the Years of Impaled Rats begins.[15]
- 694 BC: Vlad Drakov drives out the wererats (and their leader of Silbervas and Falkovnia altogether. The Years of Impaled Rats period ends.[15]
- 694 BC: The domain of Richemulot is revealed.[16]
- 694 BC: The Lock and Key is active.[17]
697 BC: The plague known as the Black Death strikes Richemulot.[18]- 700 BC: Zebulon, future founder of the Cult of Zebulon first appearance occurs on this year in Pont-a-Museau.[19]
- 701 BC: Zebulon vanishes in an experiment gone awry. Although several months pass after his apparent death, his followers receive dreams of his return. At the site of the accident, they encounter a mysterious being claiming to be Zebulon immortalised.[19]
- 704 BC: Cyran Devichi joins an adventurer band in Richemulot to fight wererats and the vampire known as the Lilan.[20]
- 710 BC Jacqueline Renier's mother, Marie Renier, poisons Simon Audaire.[21]
- 716 BC: Borderlands War: Falkovnia tries to invade Richemulot but is repulsed.[8]
- 721 BC The bell at Tinctnoire Manor is not sounded, thus enabling the shades of the departed Tinctnoire to come down and massacre their living relatives.[22]
- 722 BC: The Piper of Hamelyn attempts to rid Ste. Ronges of the massive rat population plaguing the town. He perishes and is unsuccessful.[23][24]
- 724 BC: Falkovnia invades Dementlieu and Richemulot, resulting in the Executioner's Campaign.[8]
- 726 BC: Jacqueline Renier has a servant poison Claude Renier, her grandfather, before piercing his heart with a silver fork and then rolling him out a high window.[25]
- 729 BC: Jacqueline Renier approves the Treaty of the Four Towers.[26]
- 730 BC: Raul Renier murders his mother, Marie Renier, by poison and then flees to Barovia.[27]
- 733 BC: Vampire aspirant Beatrice Cargonne moves from Richemulot to Valachan with the hope of becoming a vampire. She is not successful and opens the Inn of Quiet Repose.[28]
- 735 BC: Pierre Renier and Gerard Renier conspire against the wererats plaguing their family. They unearth the corpse of Simon Audaire and conspire with the Withered Rat to reanimate the body as an ancient dead.[29]
- 735 BC: Fall Aurek Nuikin travels to Richemulot from Borca to find a way to restore his wife Natalia back to life from her form as a statue. At his sisters' insistence, He brings along his younger brother, Dmitri. There they fall victim to the machinations of Louise Renier to force Aurek to help her destroy Jacqueline Renier. The plot fails, but things end disastrously for everyone. Natalia's porcelain statue is shattered, and Jacqueline throws the Nuikins out of Richemulot.[30]
- 736 BC Dread Possibility After fleeing from a confrontation with Van Richten, Balihnda the Sanctuary of the Forgotten Lady in Mortigny. She begins posing as one of the Church of Hala.[31]
- 743 BC Girard Cavaillon tries to make an under-the-table agreement with the Falkovnian Army to overthrow Jacqueline Renier. Jacqueline establishes a direct communication with Vlad Drakov as a counter offer with some unknown incentive plus a favored consort of Cavaillon.[32]
- 752 BC In Mortigny, Dr. Alfonz Temator and Gaston kill each other in duel for the love Dr. Simone Couture[33]
- 752 BC Jules Harris becomes the eight victim of a mysterious serial killer walking the streets of Mortigny.[34]
- 758 BCThe Ste. Ronges Cell of the Fraternity of Shadows assembles.[35]
- 759 BCOctober 29 Professor Erik van Rijn enacts his plans of betrayal against the Fraternity.[36] Now a lich [37], van Rijn organizes a contingent of the Unholy Order of the Grave and unleashs an attack upon the Ste. Ronges Cell of the Fraternity of Shadows.[36] The Fraternity's headquarters, the Manoir de Penombre was burnt to the ground, and the cell's members were put to flight. In the chaos, Van Rijn steals plans of Azalin's Doomsday Device from thee Fraternity's archives.[37]
- 760 BC The Fraternity of Shadows creates the Cellar Door, an artificial mistway. It links Souragne to Richemulot and back.[38]
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References
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.42, 46
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Domains of Dread p. 46
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p. 154
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p. 133-137
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 87
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Gazetteer III p. 91
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gazetteer III p. 100-101
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Gazetteer II p. 94
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 96
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 97
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 98
- ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, p. 80
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens, p. 28
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.89
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Gazetteer II p. 93
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.83
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.104
- ↑ Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 9
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Book of Secrets p.121
- ↑ Book of Secrets p.101
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.136
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.107
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.17
- ↑ Tales of Ravenloft: Nocturne
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.88-89
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.88
- ↑ The date given by Realm of Terror p. 125 put together with who and how from Scholar of Decay
- ↑ The Price of Revenge, Dungeon Magazine #42, p.58
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.103
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 17, as told in Scholars of Decay
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.106
- ↑ Gazetteer III p.100
- ↑ Children of the Night: The Created p. 57-58
- ↑ Children of the Night: The Created p. 59
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 10 p. 34
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 5
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Fraternity of Shadows Message Board Post
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 16, p. 39-43
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