729 BC

Events

• After Gabrielle Aderre leaves her mother, Isabella Aderre, to die at the hands of a werewolf, the Mists take Gabrielle to Invidia. Bakholis, the first darklord of that domain, is slain by Gabrielle Aderre. She inherits the position.
• The Invidian peasantry revolt against Bakholis' decaying regime and burn part of the Citadel.
• September: The fiend Elsepeth enters Ravenloft via transposition in a small village outside of Stangengrad near Grashen Falls.
• Claude Rivale born in Mortigny, along with his conjoined twin, Importun
• Othmar Bolshnik conspires with Chezna and slowly poisons his father, Kethmar Bolshnik, to death, then succeeds him as Prince of Nova Vaasa. However, at Kethmar's request, Tristen Hiregaard becomes regent, and Tristen runs the government while Othmar prepares his revenge.
• Rudolfo Velutto] is born in Gothic Italy (in the village which will become Odiare).
• Treaty of the Four Towers is signed.
• Anton Boritsi dies. He is survived by his wife and children.
• Lady Kazandra takes Bartholomew Nylreave from his parents and begins training him to be an agent of the Kargat.
• Bloody Jack’s back for the 12th time. All the victims have been marked with two puncture wounds and bled dry, earning Jack the nickname “the vampire killer.”
• A wandering tinker from some distant land is injured and Claude Whitmoor (father of Celia Whitmoor nurses him back to health. In gratitude he crreats a a silver locket with a cameo of Marie crafted from Claude's verbal description. Claude bestows the locket to Celia, and it eventually becomes Celia's most valued possession.