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For untold generations, the Vasavadan dynasty has ruled over the Great Kingdom of Kalakeri. This land was one of stability and prosperity until a barbarous civil war and a queen's dying curse brought low what centuries never could. Once an unrivaled power known throughout the world for its rare resources and vibrant trade, Kalakeri is now locked in an endless storm of violence. At the center of that storm stand the remnants of the Vasavadan: three heirs transformed into unspeakable monsters by their depravity and hatred.
Called [[Sri Raji]], the [[Steaming Lands]], and various wild names by [[merchant]]s coming from afar, '''Kalakeri'''<ref>[[Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft]] p. 124-126</ref> exists as a land of lush rainforests dotted with [[river]]s and [[lake]]s. Long ruled by the [[Vasavadan dynasty]], Kalakeri's history's of orderly rule and cosmopolitan exchange has been breached by the tide of civil war and corruption. [[Ramya Vasavadan]], Kalakeri's queen, laid a powerful [[curse]] upon the land as she perished in the [[assassination]] perpetrated by her siblings [[Arijani Vasavadan|Arijani]] and [[Reeva Vasavadan|Reeva]]. Now existing in an [[death knight]] following her [[undead]] restoration, she feuds with her siblings, transformed by her curse into monsters, for control over Kalakeri. Their conflict has rendered Kalakeri a pale reflection of its former heights of enlightenment and good fortunes, with its citizens always living at knife's edge of death.
 
Kalakeri is a deceptively beautiful land of verdant rain forests and an idyllic web of rivers and lakes known as the Backwaters. Rare creatures and extraordinary magical plants are found across the forest peninsula locals call the Harvest Peninsula. At the height of its prosperity, Kalakeri was a robust center of art, commerce, and religion, with foreign merchants spreading wild tales of Sri Raji, the Steaming Lands, the Land at the Heart of the World, and other fanciful names for Kalakeri. Now Kalakeri is a shadow of its past glory, a quagmire of intrigue and despair where fortunes change on a whim.
 
The people of Kalakeri live in dread, as a single misstep means doom. Schemers and hapless citizens alike are tossed by the tidal forces of the royal family. Following her betrayal and assassination, Maharani Ramya was restored to the world to avenge herself against her treacherous siblings, Arijani and Reeva. Ramya's curse manifests in both her deathless rage and in the monstrous forms afflicting her siblings. Both sides continue to escalate their atrocities against one another, drawing the powerful and the innocent alike into their squabbles. As Arijani and Reeva host murderous galas to entice fiendish allies, the forces of the Darklord search out and execute anyone they consider treasonous, adding their skulls to Ramya's ever-growing Tower of Traitors.
 
 


==Geography==
==Geography==
Lush beauty exists in Kalakeri's rainsforests that run along the [[Harvest Peninsula]]. The Peninsula's network of rivers and lakes, known as [[the Backwaters]], allow for prosperous trade and travel between communities and estates despite Kalakeri's strife. Refugees from war and poverty stricken areas have taken to the Backwaters to hide from the chaos elsewhere. Yet newcomers and oldtimers alike must fear the monsters of the Backwaters, for they are among Kalakeri's most dangerous.


===Jadurai===
===[[Mountains]]===
This city is thousands of years old. Here ancient structures with the architecture of previous dynasties stand alongside modern buildings. Hardly a month passes without locals rediscovering a forgotten chamber or catacomb.
A pair of mountains, the [[Greater Volacham]] and the [[Lesser Volacham]], exist in the southern part of the region. The forested [[Ashwaganga Mountains]] make up part of the middle western edge of the realm.
 
The colorfully canopied Lakshma Market trades in everything from betel leaves to the eggs of wyverns, which are common near the mountain spires known as the Lesser and Greater Vochalam. People of all social classes flock to the market, moving past the flower-petaled kolam that ward the entrances of the high temple of Kalakeri's gods.
 
Jadurai retains its splendor, but the conflict between Ramya and her siblings takes an enormous toll. Sections of the city lie in ruins, and the slums encroach farther every day as misery and squalor consume Jadurai from the inside.


===The Backwaters===
===[[:category:Body of Water|Bodies of Water]]===
An extensive web of brackish rivers and lakes crisscrosses the Harvest Peninsula. Houseboats travel their lengths, ferrying food and wares between thriving trade towns, rural villages, and the estates of regional nobles.
The regions of Kalakeri's land not bordered by [[the Mists]]] is surrounded by the [[Sea of Spears]] and its [[bay]]s, the [[Bay of Lost Lights]] in the south and [[Carnatic Bay]] in the north.  


Refugees from the ongoing war and the rampant poverty of Jadurai seek haven in the Backwaters. Those brave enough to fight the tyranny of the Vasavadan scions organize into rebel bands that prepare desperate, dangerous attacks on the royal family.
Kalakeri's rivers include the [[Jamputa Rivers]] and [[Gharial Rivers]] in the east and the [[Blue Datura Rivers]] and [[Srinhara Tributary]] in the west. The realms lakes include the [[Lake of Saffron]], the [[Lake of the Lost]], and the [[Vantaranya Lakes]].


Kalakeri's most fearsome predators inhabit the Backwaters, including basilisks, hydras, stone giants, and cloud giants.
==Sites of Interest==
===Communities===
The city of [[Jadurai]], Kalakeri's [[capital]] has stood for literal millenia, with knew construction of city building upon the old. Jaldurai's architecture represents construction both ancient and modern. Discovery of old [[ruins]] and [[catacombs]] is not an uncommon event. Though still keeping majesty, war has left its mark upon Jadurai, leaving some sections in shambles or squalor.  


===Cerulean Citadel===
Other communities in Kalakeri include:
The Cerulean Citadel is the palace of the royal family. The jewel in Jadurai's crown, it derives its name from the sky-blue sandstone used to construct its outer walls. The octagonal Citadel encompasses one hundred acres. Within its defensive walls and strategic bastions lies a complex of beautifully designed marble quarters and pavilions, arranged between courtyards, baths, ponds, and gardens. Bas-reliefs adorn the buildings, depicting the history, heroes, and legends of the kingdom, some of which remain mysteries to the wisest scholars. The central domed court houses the Sapphire Throne and is the hub of political activity in the Citadel. Beneath the Citadel, vast tunnels for storing supplies and secretly moving troops also hide the magical troves of forgotten rulers.
*[[Banyan]]
*[[Grantha]]
*[[Kattachira]]
*[[Meenakara]]
*[[Neelakurinji]]
*[[Veena]]


===Tower of Traitors===
===The [[Cerulean Citadel]]===
The Tower of Traitors is an ever-expanding structure on the outskirts of Jadurai, situated on the battlefield where Arijani and Reeva murdered Ramya, precipitating the creation of Kalakeri as a domain. Row upon row of skulls, all taken from Ramya's fallen enemies, fill depressions set into the stone tower. Two skulls hold places of special prominence: the original human skulls of Arijani and Reeva. Ramya's skeletal soldiers continue to build the tower as part of her plan to rid Kalakeri of evil and receive the gods' blessings.
Protected by outer walls built of its namesake blue [[sandstone]], the Cerulean Citadel is the Kalkeri royal [[palace]] and the political heart of Kalakeri. Within its interior lies an arrangement of beautiful [[pond]]s, baths, and gardens in between the pavilion and marble edifices. Splendid displays of the realm's history and myth adorn the palace's bass reliefs. Yet even greater treasures may exist in the tunnels below the palace that also allows for the stealthy movement of troops.


===The Vochalams===
===The [[Tower of Traitors]]===
Two treacherous mountains jut from the forest-cloaked hills and cliffs of southwestern Kalakeri. The Greater Vochalam and the slightly smaller Lesser Vochalam are home to vast numbers of wyverns. Legends say that temples crown both mountains and that an ancient deity placed a treasure able to grant wishes in one of them. Whoever claims the treasure in the wrong temple, though, is turned into a wyvern loyal to Kalakeri's true leader.
Built upon the battlefield that saw Ramya's death, the Tower of Traitors is a stone edifice decorated with the [[skull]]s of Ramya's enemies. Her undead troops eternally bring in more skulls, so the Tower is always becoming larger. Ramya believes it will help her purge of Kalakeri's evil and procure good fortune given by the [[deity|deities]]. Some of the Kalakeri agree with her in this assessment, whereas others belief it will only procure their ill will.


===The Ashram of Niranjan===
===[[Ashram of Nirajan]]===
Another Domain of Dread hails from the same lands as Kalakeri. Those who sail into the Mists of the Sea of Spears often find this shadow-haunted domain of Niranjan, which is detailed further in the "Other Domains of Dread" section later in this chapter.
Going north on the Sea and into the Mists will eventually bring one to an [[archipelago]] domain known as Ashram of Niranjan.


==Authority==
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===Temporal Rule===
===Temporal Rule===
The Temporal rule of Kalakeri is split between Ramya, the rightful Maharani who rules with her undead army, and her rebelious brother and sister, Arijani and Reeva. Each enforces their own set of rules, taking over the villages and the capital city, while also killing those they see as rebels and traitors.
The Temporal rule of Kalakeri is split between Ramya, the rightful Maharani who rules with her undead army, and her rebelious brother and sister, Arijani and Reeva. Each enforces their own set of rules, taking over the villages and the capital city, while also killing those they see as rebels and traitors.
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Kalakeri
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Culture Level Medieval
Ecology Full
Climate & Terrain Rainforests
Year Formed ?
Population ?
Races (%) Humans ?, ?
Languages [[]]
Religions [[]]
Government Feudal monarchy
Ruler(s) Ramya Vasavadan, Arijani Vasavadan, Reeva Vasavadan
Darklord(s) Ramya Vasavadan
Nationality
Analog India
Related Categories
Locations in Kalakeri
Transportation in Kalakeri
Inhabitants of Kalakeri
Former Inhabitants of Kalakeri
Flora of Kalakeri
Fauna of Kalakeri
Native Monsters of Kalakeri

Called Sri Raji, the Steaming Lands, and various wild names by merchants coming from afar, Kalakeri[1] exists as a land of lush rainforests dotted with rivers and lakes. Long ruled by the Vasavadan dynasty, Kalakeri's history's of orderly rule and cosmopolitan exchange has been breached by the tide of civil war and corruption. Ramya Vasavadan, Kalakeri's queen, laid a powerful curse upon the land as she perished in the assassination perpetrated by her siblings Arijani and Reeva. Now existing in an death knight following her undead restoration, she feuds with her siblings, transformed by her curse into monsters, for control over Kalakeri. Their conflict has rendered Kalakeri a pale reflection of its former heights of enlightenment and good fortunes, with its citizens always living at knife's edge of death.

Geography

Lush beauty exists in Kalakeri's rainsforests that run along the Harvest Peninsula. The Peninsula's network of rivers and lakes, known as the Backwaters, allow for prosperous trade and travel between communities and estates despite Kalakeri's strife. Refugees from war and poverty stricken areas have taken to the Backwaters to hide from the chaos elsewhere. Yet newcomers and oldtimers alike must fear the monsters of the Backwaters, for they are among Kalakeri's most dangerous.

Mountains

A pair of mountains, the Greater Volacham and the Lesser Volacham, exist in the southern part of the region. The forested Ashwaganga Mountains make up part of the middle western edge of the realm.

Bodies of Water

The regions of Kalakeri's land not bordered by the Mists] is surrounded by the Sea of Spears and its bays, the Bay of Lost Lights in the south and Carnatic Bay in the north.

Kalakeri's rivers include the Jamputa Rivers and Gharial Rivers in the east and the Blue Datura Rivers and Srinhara Tributary in the west. The realms lakes include the Lake of Saffron, the Lake of the Lost, and the Vantaranya Lakes.

Sites of Interest

Communities

The city of Jadurai, Kalakeri's capital has stood for literal millenia, with knew construction of city building upon the old. Jaldurai's architecture represents construction both ancient and modern. Discovery of old ruins and catacombs is not an uncommon event. Though still keeping majesty, war has left its mark upon Jadurai, leaving some sections in shambles or squalor.

Other communities in Kalakeri include:

The Cerulean Citadel

Protected by outer walls built of its namesake blue sandstone, the Cerulean Citadel is the Kalkeri royal palace and the political heart of Kalakeri. Within its interior lies an arrangement of beautiful ponds, baths, and gardens in between the pavilion and marble edifices. Splendid displays of the realm's history and myth adorn the palace's bass reliefs. Yet even greater treasures may exist in the tunnels below the palace that also allows for the stealthy movement of troops.

The Tower of Traitors

Built upon the battlefield that saw Ramya's death, the Tower of Traitors is a stone edifice decorated with the skulls of Ramya's enemies. Her undead troops eternally bring in more skulls, so the Tower is always becoming larger. Ramya believes it will help her purge of Kalakeri's evil and procure good fortune given by the deities. Some of the Kalakeri agree with her in this assessment, whereas others belief it will only procure their ill will.

Ashram of Nirajan

Going north on the Sea and into the Mists will eventually bring one to an archipelago domain known as Ashram of Niranjan.

Authority

Darklord

Temporal Rule

The Temporal rule of Kalakeri is split between Ramya, the rightful Maharani who rules with her undead army, and her rebelious brother and sister, Arijani and Reeva. Each enforces their own set of rules, taking over the villages and the capital city, while also killing those they see as rebels and traitors.

References

  1. ↑ Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft p. 124-126
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