Mordent
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| Culture Level | Renaissance (9) |
| Ecology | Full |
| Climate & Terrain | Forests, Plains, Swamps |
| Year Formed | 579 BC |
| Population | 5,500 |
| Races (%) | 99% Human |
| Languages | Mordentish*, Falkovnian, Vaasi |
| Religions | Church of Ezra, Church of Hala |
| Government | Hereditary Aristocracy |
| Ruler(s) | Lord Jules Weathermay |
| Darklord(s) | Lord Wilfred Godefroy |
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| Analog | English countryside |
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Mordent is the setting of the module Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill. After one of Strahd and Azalin's many attempts to escape the Demiplane of Dread, they found themselves in Mordent. After the events involving the Alchemist and the Apparatus, they were sent back, and Mordent was added to the demiplane as a new domain.
The Darklord of Mordent is the ghost Lord Wilfred Godefroy.
Things, Creatures & Personnages of Legend
Biology
Flora
- Wraithroot is native to Mordent.
Fauna
Native Horrors
- Bog Hounds are sometimes found on the moors.
Geography
| This page incorporates content from the inactive Mordent Cartographic Society. Used with their express permission. | 
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Note: The above map have serious inaccuraties when compared to that used in the 3rd edition of Ravenloft.
Weather
Terrain
Hills
Forests[1]
- The Forest of the Ancients
- The Lightless Wood
Lakes
Communication
Rivers
- The Arden River flows north out of Valachan into Arden Bay.
The Mordent Cartographic Society also supplied a few non-canon river names. The 'Volfen' is the otherwise unnamed tributary that originates in what was previously Arkandale, while the 'Newbury River' is an entirely new tributary out of Richemulot.
Roads
- The Mill Road runs from The Forest of the Ancients to Mordentshire.
Economy
Agarian
Manufacturing
Ships
Trade
Taxation
Black Market
Landmarks
- The Pale Lady and the Ashen Man are local names for the chalk cliffs on either side of Arden Bay.
Population Distribution
Towns
Steadwall (ghost town)
Villages
Mordent is dotted with small villages. Waterford is mentioned by John Mangrum in his adventure 'The Man Who Lost His Mind'. Crawford is a village derived from the Dungeon adventure 'The Unkindness of Ravens', by Jason Kuhl. Glenwich is a take on the English Dunwich (a real village on a sandcliff that threatens to be swallowed by the sea). The last site also is the location of Preston Hill, which is featured in Children of the Night:Ghosts. In Children of the Night: The Created, Lian de Loranche Punchinel is a resident of Idlethorp.
Authority
Darklord
Godefroy was a fairly inconsequential darklord, preferring to rule over the spirits in his manor, until about 750, when an assault on the Gryphon Hill manor roused him out of his complacency. He now uses the spirits of the house as spies, informants, and hostages to control the living.
Temporal Rule
Mordent was ruled in the past by landed gentry, but most of these families have vanished, leaving the Weathermay family as the only landowners left. The aging Jules Weathermay is disinclined to overt rule. His most significant political act was to sign the Treaty of the Four Towers.
Spiritual Rule
Since the return of the Church of Ezra under Felix Wachter in 698, the Church has grown to be the dominant religion of Mordent.
Church and State
While there is no official relationship between the Church of Ezra and the hereditary government, gossips are quick to comment as to the generous donation of the old temple of Mordentshire after anchorites healed young Gennifer Weathermay-Foxgrove after her mauling by the werewolf Natalia Vhorishkova.
Government
Landowners select a mayor for each settlement, and the mayor appoints a sheriff and magistrate.
Law
Magistrates interpret the law and exact fines and sentences. Like the sheriffs, they are equal in authority to the mayors who appointed them.
Law Enforcement
sheriffs are appointed by the mayors, but are not subordinate to them. Sheriffs, magistrates and mayors are of equal authority in their respective spheres. The Lamplighters serve as detectives. All city watchmen are volunteers.
Intelligence Gathering
Military Footing
Language & Culture
Gods and Religions
God - Focus - Domains
Inns & Taverns
Mordentshire
The Seventh Sea (579 BC)
Traveler's Inn (579 BC)
Old Salt House (579 BC)
Salty Dog Tavern (579 BC)
Blackburn's Crossing
Tumbledown
NPC
Howard Lumley (most likely)
References
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer I, p37.
Chronology
BC
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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