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	:Another is [[Forenoon Abbey]], a monastery significant to [[Lady Kateri Shadowborn \| Lady Shadowborn]] that's now the home of the undead [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) \| Ahltrian]]. This was the first pearl in [[Ebonbane \| Ebonbane's]] collection -- the first thing beloved of [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri]] that it destroyed after returning to the world.		:Another is [[Forenoon Abbey]], a monastery significant to [[Lady Kateri Shadowborn \| Lady Shadowborn]] that's now the home of the undead [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) \| Ahltrian]]. This was the first pearl in [[Ebonbane \| Ebonbane's]] collection -- the first thing beloved of [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri]] that it destroyed after returning to the world.

	* [[Ebonbane]] can animate anyone who dies in [[Shadowborn Manor]] or the [[Phantasmal Forest]] as an intelligent [[ghoul]]. If a [[humanoid]] corpse is left lying in the mire of the [[Phantasmal Forest]], then after a few minutes it sinks into the swampy earth and, a few days later, digs out of the mud at [[Forenoon Abbey]], now one of the ~~[[Altrian]]~~ and [[slave \| utterly subserviant]] to [[Ebonbane]].		* [[Ebonbane]] can animate anyone who dies in [[Shadowborn Manor]] or the [[Phantasmal Forest]] as an intelligent [[ghoul]]. If a [[humanoid]] corpse is left lying in the mire of the [[Phantasmal Forest]], then after a few minutes it sinks into the swampy earth and, a few days later, digs out of the mud at [[Forenoon Abbey]], now one of the Ahltrian and [[slave \| utterly subserviant]] to [[Ebonbane]].

	* The [[Phantasmal Forest]] is trackless and directionless; getting lost is the norm. It used to lead back to the [[Great Kingdom]] on [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri Shadowborn's]] [[Outlander World \| homeworld]], but those planar pathways closed as [[Ebonbane]] wiped out the last remnants of her legacy.		* The [[Phantasmal Forest]] is trackless and directionless; getting lost is the norm. It used to lead back to the [[Great Kingdom]] on [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri Shadowborn's]] [[Outlander World \| homeworld]], but those planar pathways closed as [[Ebonbane]] wiped out the last remnants of her legacy.

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	:[[Morgoroth]] and [[Elena Faith-hold]] stand apart because they damned themselves, with minimal involvement from [[Ebonbane]]. Thus, although their corruption delights [[Ebonbane]] and ultimately feeds into its evil, they do not serve [[Ebonbane]], unlike the other pearls in its collection.		:[[Morgoroth]] and [[Elena Faith-hold]] stand apart because they damned themselves, with minimal involvement from [[Ebonbane]]. Thus, although their corruption delights [[Ebonbane]] and ultimately feeds into its evil, they do not serve [[Ebonbane]], unlike the other pearls in its collection.

	* [[Pseduodomains]] -- pearls in the oil, I think I called them in the RL DMG -- include Kateri's unicorn mount [[Addar]], now driven [[mad]] and equally lost in overweening pride and self-loathing. His 'domain' is a small glade that travels with him. He can act as a guide for those who play to his vanity.		* [[Pseduodomains]] -- pearls in the oil, I think I called them in the RL DMG -- include Kateri's [[unicorn]] [[mount]] [[Addar]], now driven [[mad]] and equally lost in overweening pride and self-loathing. His 'domain' is a small glade that travels with him. He can act as a guide for those who play to his vanity.

	:Another is [[Forenoon Abbey]], a monastery significant to [[Lady Kateri Shadowborn \| Lady Shadowborn]] that's now the home of the undead [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) \| Ahltrian]]. This was the first pearl in [[Ebonbane \| Ebonbane's]] collection -- the first thing beloved of [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri]] that it destroyed after returning to the world.		:Another is [[Forenoon Abbey]], a monastery significant to [[Lady Kateri Shadowborn \| Lady Shadowborn]] that's now the home of the undead [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) \| Ahltrian]]. This was the first pearl in [[Ebonbane \| Ebonbane's]] collection -- the first thing beloved of [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri]] that it destroyed after returning to the world.

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	* [[Ebonbane]] can animate anyone who dies in [[Shadowborn Manor]] or the [[Phantasmal Forest]] as an intelligent [[ghoul]]. If a [[humanoid]] corpse is left lying in the mire of the [[Phantasmal Forest]], then after a few minutes it sinks into the swampy earth and, a few days later, digs out of the mud at [[Forenoon Abbey]], now one of the [[Altrian]] and [[slave \| utterly subserviant]] to [[Ebonbane]].		* [[Ebonbane]] can animate anyone who dies in [[Shadowborn Manor]] or the [[Phantasmal Forest]] as an intelligent [[ghoul]]. If a [[humanoid]] corpse is left lying in the mire of the [[Phantasmal Forest]], then after a few minutes it sinks into the swampy earth and, a few days later, digs out of the mud at [[Forenoon Abbey]], now one of the [[Altrian]] and [[slave \| utterly subserviant]] to [[Ebonbane]].

	* The [[Phantasmal Forest]] is trackless and directionless; getting lost is the norm. It used to lead back to the [[Great Kingdom]] on [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri Shadowborn's]]		* The [[Phantasmal Forest]] is trackless and directionless; getting lost is the norm. It used to lead back to the [[Great Kingdom]] on [[Kateri Shadowborn \| Kateri Shadowborn's]] [[Outlander World \| homeworld]], but those planar pathways closed as [[Ebonbane]] wiped out the last remnants of her legacy.
	[[Outlander World \| homeworld]], but those planar pathways closed as [[Ebonbane]] wiped out the last remnants of her legacy.

	* The general thrust of adventuring in the [[domain]] is the conflict between the human evil of [[Elena Faith-hold]] and the monstrous, all-consuming evil of [[Ebonbane]], and the prospects of Elena's once again being offered a true evil to fight. What would her reaction be? Meanwhile, [[Ebonbane]] is monomaniacally fixated on destroying and/or desecrating everything th ....		* The general thrust of adventuring in the [[domain]] is the conflict between the human evil of [[Elena Faith-hold]] and the monstrous, all-consuming evil of [[Ebonbane]], and the prospects of Elena's once again being offered a true evil to fight. What would her reaction be? Meanwhile, [[Ebonbane]] is monomaniacally fixated on destroying and/or desecrating everything th ....

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==[[John W. Mangrum]] on the Kargats's vision for [[Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume X]]==

* The [[Phantasmal Forest]] doesn't have a fixed shape. [[Shadowborn Manor]], [[Avonleigh]], and numerous tiny little domains all float around in it, sort of like [[pocket domains]]. The best way to think of it is to consider the [[Phantasmal Forest]] an amoeba, with [[Shadowborn Manor]] its nucleous. The [[Phantasmal Forest]] exists because [[Ebonbane | Ebonebane's]] evil is so pervasive and powerful that it seeps through the planar membranes of his domain, so to speak. Since first appearing, it's slowly spread around [[Nidala]], like an ooze absorbing its prey, to the point that "today," there's only one shrinking stretch of border that leads directly to the [[Mists]]. In all other directions, one must pass through the [[Phantasmal Forest]] to reach any other domain.

:It's not necessarily the size that makes the [[Phantasmal Forest]] easy to get lost in -- it's that the [[Phantasmal Forest]] is a manifestation of the [[Misty Border]], and like the [[Mists]], it's directionless. Nothing leaves tracks, and there are no trails to follow. (The BoS story discusses this.)

* After it was trapped in Ravenloft, [[Ebonbane]] spent decades corrupting every aspect of the late [[Kateri Shadowborn | Kateri Shadowborn's life]]. It wiped out [[Shadowborn Family | her family]], corrupted her allies, and so on. Each time it successfully turned one of [[Lady Kateri Shadowborn | Lady Shadowborn's]] former friends or ties to evil, it drew them into the [[Phantasmal Forest]], and thus Ravenloft. They're all still out there, pseudodarklords of pathetic little psuedodomains.

:[[Morgoroth]] and [[Elena Faith-hold]] stand apart because they damned themselves, with minimal involvement from [[Ebonbane]]. Thus, although their corruption delights [[Ebonbane]] and ultimately feeds into its evil, they do not serve [[Ebonbane]], unlike the other pearls in its collection.

* [[Pseduodomains]] -- pearls in the oil, I think I called them in the RL DMG -- include Kateri's unicorn mount [[Addar]], now driven [[mad]] and equally lost in overweening pride and self-loathing. His 'domain' is a small glade that travels with him. He can act as a guide for those who play to his vanity.

:Another is [[Forenoon Abbey]], a monastery significant to [[Lady Kateri Shadowborn | Lady Shadowborn]] that's now the home of the undead [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) | Ahltrian]]. This was the first pearl in [[Ebonbane | Ebonbane's]] collection -- the first thing beloved of [[Kateri Shadowborn | Kateri]] that it destroyed after returning to the world.

* [[Ebonbane]] can animate anyone who dies in [[Shadowborn Manor]] or the [[Phantasmal Forest]] as an intelligent [[ghoul]]. If a [[humanoid]] corpse is left lying in the mire of the [[Phantasmal Forest]], then after a few minutes it sinks into the swampy earth and, a few days later, digs out of the mud at [[Forenoon Abbey]], now one of the [[Altrian]] and [[slave | utterly subserviant]] to [[Ebonbane]].

* The [[Phantasmal Forest]] is trackless and directionless; getting lost is the norm. It used to lead back to the [[Great Kingdom]] on [[Kateri Shadowborn | Kateri Shadowborn's]]
[[Outlander World | homeworld]], but those planar pathways closed as [[Ebonbane]] wiped out the last remnants of her legacy.

* The general thrust of adventuring in the [[domain]] is the conflict between the human evil of [[Elena Faith-hold]] and the monstrous, all-consuming evil of [[Ebonbane]], and the prospects of Elena's once again being offered a true evil to fight. What would her reaction be? Meanwhile, [[Ebonbane]] is monomaniacally fixated on destroying and/or desecrating everything th ....

* [[Ebonbane]] can't leave its tiny [[domain]], but the [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) | Ahltrian]] can. They regularly steal into [[Nidala]] to wreak havoc. Their ultimate goal, beyond simple destruction, is to pull Elena into their ranks, and thus add the whole of [[Nidala]] to Ebonbane's holdings. (This would, presumably, let [[Ebonbane]] extend its senses into the land, and possibly mean that any corpses left on the soil, anywhere, would be sucked down into the [[Ahltrian (Ghoul) | Ahltrian]].) Essentially, the whole [[domain]] would become just another part of the amorphous, sunless [[Phantasmal Forest]].

* And, of course, the [[Knights of the Circle]] must make an annual pilgrimage to first [[Avonleigh]] and then [[Shadowborn Manor]] to maintain the magic that keeps [[Alexi Shadowborn]], Ebonbane's current [[prison]], in stasis.

* [[Morgoroth]] is the third player in a two-sided battle, falling somewhere in between Elena and Ebonbane, but too wrapped up in his own concerns to be an active participant. If the inherent struggle of the [[Shadowlands]] is human evil vs. monstrous evil, he falls somewhere in between. He is a monster, but he holds no allegiance to [[Ebonbane]] and in fact has a strong motivation to keep the [[fiend]] in check. This makes him a potential ally -- not of Elena, but of the Circle, who have to deal with him every year. However, unless you play to his single "redeeming quality" -- his desire to keep his innocent captive alive indefinitely -- he's as treacherous and malevolent as they come.

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