Sithicus
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| Culture Level | Medieval (8), Stone Age (1) for wild elves[1] |
| Ecology | Full[1] |
| Climate & Terrain | Temperate forests, hills[1] |
| Year Formed | 720 BC[2][3][1] |
| Population | 4,300[1] |
| Races (%) | 96% elves, 2% half-elves, 1% humans, 1% other[1] |
| Languages | Sithican*, Vaasi, Balok, Mordentish[1] |
| Religions | Church of Ezra, Church of Hala[1] |
| Government | Despotic monarch and aristocracy[1] |
| Ruler(s) | Azrael Dak[1] (Formerly: Lord Soth[4]) |
| Darklord(s) | Inza Kulchevich[1] (Formerly: Lord Soth[5]) |
| Nationality | Sithican |
| Analog | Krynn[4] |
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This section contains canon info from officially published sources |
Sithicus, meaning The Land Of Specters in the Elven tongue, is unusual in being one of the few domains inhabited primarily by non-humans, in this case elves. Created and formerly ruled by the Death Knight Lord Soth before his disappearance, Sithicus is now officially the kingdom of the werebadger Azrael Dak, who is far more interested in the fates of his subjects than Soth was. Other than elves, the sentient races inhabiting Sithicus include a few small pockets of humans, and several tribes of tortured, tormented Vampire kender, who are usually mistaken for [halflings?]. The Darklord of Sithicus is a half-Vistani/half-shadow woman by the name of Inza Kulchevich, daughter of Magda Ilyanova Kulchevich.
Communities
Chronology
- 720 BC Early Spring Lord Soth is transported to Barovia while torturing his traitorous steward, Caradoc for the location of Kitiara's soul. Caradoc gives him the slip in the Mists.[6]
- 720 BC March - Lord Soth and Azrael Dak catch up with the traitorous Caradoc along the border between Gundarak and Barovia. Soth tortures and ultimately murders. However, Soth fails notice the oncoming Mist that claimed him.[7] Subsequently, Soth is given one final chance of redemption, and he fails it. Sithicus forms, and Lord Soth is its darklord.[8]
- 720 BC - 740 BC - Bloody civil war wages between the wild elves of Sithicus and the forces of Soth.[9]
- 722 BC - The Wanderers, a patchwork group of Vistani from several different tribes, is founded in Gundarak by Magda Kulchevich.[10]
- 724 BC - With the aid of the newly-met Jameld of Hroth, Dr. Van Richten battles the Bog Monster of Hroth. This is also Van Richten's first visit to both Kartakass and Sithicus.[11]
- 725 BC - Lord Soth pulls in Kendralind to satisfy his perverse desires of creating a race of kender vampires to do his bidding.[12]
- 727 BC -
Adventurers steal the Shadow Serpent from an unnamed crimelord in Hazlan and use it to kill him. They try the same against Lord Soth, but the plan fails. Unable to kill Soth, the Serpent comes after the adventurers and slays them to the last man. Following their demise, the Serpent is claimed by the Order of the Guardians (more specifically, the Keepers of the Coil.)[13]
- 736 BC - Inza Kulchevich, future darklord successor to Lord Soth, is born in Gundarak the very same hour Duke Gundar is assassinated. A horrible, almost vengeful storm rocks Gundarak, and it may somehow warp Inza's soul.[14]
- 738 BC - The Wanderers unwittingly stumble into Sithicus, where Lord Soth subsequently traps them.[9]
- 740 BC - the Grand Conjunction occurs. By this time, Soth has disappeared from the public eye, thought by some to be deceased. In truth, he has immersed himself in the fantasies of the Memory Mirrors.[9]
- 740 BC - Previously dismissed as merely a legend before this approximate year, a string of corpses with the bottoms of their feet sliced off makes the Sithicans reconsider the existence of the Bloody Cobbler.[15]
- 743 BC Early Year - With the exception of the white flowers in the Iron Hills, all the flowers in Sithicus blacken.[9]
- 743 BC-752 BC For a period of 9 years, the flowers of Sithicus bloom black. During this same period, another bout of Ashen Fever (also mistranslated as the White Fever Plague) rages across
- 744 BC - The Mists claim Nabon from a world on the Prime Material Plane.[16]
- 744 BC - Krellantha perishes while trying to harvest the special rose petals from some thornslinger plants.[17]
- 745 BC - Azrael Dak loses his axe in the Veidrava Salt Mines.[18] (However, by 758 BC he carries it once again.)[19]
- 745 BC - Magda Kulchevich subsequently petitions Soth for protection from Malocchio Aderre's roving killers. He grants it, but in exchange, the Wanderers swear oaths to never again tell the story of his origins.[20]
- 747 BC - Malocchio Aderre, the second dukkar, launches a pogrom of genocide against the Vistani.[21] Magda Kulchevich subsequently petitions Soth for protection from Malocchio's roving killers. He grants it, but in exchange, the Wanderers swear oaths to never again tell the story of his origins.[20]
- 747 BC - Malocchio gives Novgor to Azrael as a symbol of their alliance. In order to claim the blade for herself, Inza ambushes and cripples an outlander stone giant named Nabon using Gard. She then trades the now enslaved Nabon to Azrael Dak for Novgor.[22]
- 752 BC - Inza Kulchevich conspires with Azrael Dak, and through him, Malocchio Aderre. Their plans include the death and overthrow of both Magda Kulchevich and Lord Soth.
- 752 BC - Malocchio Aderre sends the spy Gesmas Malaturno into Sithicus to dig up information on Lord Soth's origins.[23] Bratu, under manipulation by Inza, tells Malaturno the Wanderers' version of Soth's story, breaking the earlier oath the tribe had sworn.[24] Azrael Dak captures Malaturno, and Soth learns the spy has heard the true story of his origins.[25] He confronts Magda and the Wanderers, though Magda passes it off as the work of the Thorns of the White Rose. Subsequently she confronts Bratu and calls him out as an Oathbreaker.[24] Meanwhile, on the way to the Veidrava Mines, Malaturno encounters the Bloody Cobbler and is subsequently slain.[26]
- 752 BC - Inza Kulchevich betrays the Wanderers. She sabotages Gard using Novgor. Azrael and Inza then instigate the salt shadows to attack the Wanderers' camp. Gard's power fails, and it shatters as Magda Kulchevich tries to protect her tribe. She perishes in the battle. Following the attack, Inza manipulates some of Malocchio's ogres into attacking the surviving Wanderers in order to gain the personal protection of Lord Soth.[27]
- 752 BC - Ganelon's love, Helain, hears the call of the Whispering Beast and takes flight. Ganelon gives chase. Along the way, he is assisted by the Bloody Cobbler[28] but is cursed by Inza Kulchevich[29]. At the Lair of the Whispering Beast, the White Rose strikes a deal with Ganelon to cure Helain's madness in return for the collection of red roses from Malocchio's Dream Garden.[30] There, he encounters Malocchio Aderre, whom tasks him with the disruption of Azrael's ritual at the Veidrava Salt mines using a special magical orb.[31]
- 752 BC - The Night of Screaming Shadows: Malocchio sends an invading force into Sithicus, besieging Nedregaard Keep. Shortly after Madga Kulchevich's death, Azrael Dak enacts his ritual to gain control of Sithicus's shadows. However, he is disrupted by Ganelon. The shadows coalesce and besiege Nedragaard Keep, tearing it apart and seemingly destroying Soth.[32] In actuality, Soth is taken back to Krynn.[33] Back in Sithicus, many lives are lost in the disaster[34], including Malocchio's entire invasion force.[35]
- 752 BC - Inza's treachery is revealed to Nabon and the three remaining Wanderers. To escape their wrath, she jumps into the Great Chasm, right into the thick of the gathering darkness. She survives the impact but becomes the new darklord of Sithicus. The Wanderers swear revenge.[36]
- 752 BC - Though he survives the Night of Screaming Shadows, the fallout of the whole debacle weighs quite high on Azrael Dak. He learns to fear the dark he once trusted, and the voices that now mock him drive him to the brink of madness. Moreover, his alliance with Malocchio crumbles to dust, and his enmity towards the Wannders turns all of the Vistani against him in turn. Although Dak assumes political control over the domain, though his power is challenged by both an increased rebellious spirit among the wild elves and the hidden shadows of the realm's true lord.[37]
- 752 BC - The fundamental nature of Sithicus changes.[38] After nine long years, its flowers assume their normal color. Whereas Sithicus was once a place of corrupted memories and thriving illusion, it now becomes a place where past sins cannot be forgotten.[38] The Guilt of Sithicus sets in.[39] Even Nuitari, Sithicus' moon, changes.[40]
- 752 BC - Unable to return home thanks to Inza's curse, Ganelon becomes a wandering adventurer and healer.[41]
- 753 BC - (Dread Possibility) Reports of a mysterious but benevolent figure known as the Blessed Knight begin to emerge.[42]
- 758 BC - "S" travels through Sithicus.[43] She meets Nabon and the Wanderers and learns the story of the Lake of Sounds. She hires a "haggard looking" Vistani to lead her out of the domain[43] Unknown to her, he is one of the Tribe of Hyskosa.
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Gazetteer IV p.107
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.17
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Domains of Dread p. 50
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 51
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose p. 53-55. Domains of Dread p. 17 assigns 720 BC as the year for the events in this novel.
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose p. 299-304
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose p. 309
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Gazetteer IV p.113
- ↑ Heroes of Light p. 96. The Wanderers were formed a decade before Nikolas's birth. He was born in 732 BC (4 years earlier than the 736 birth of Inza)
- ↑ Van Richten's Arsenal p.153, as told in Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead
- ↑ Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix I, When Black Roses Bloom p. 53, Gazetteer IV p. 116
- ↑ The Keepers of the Coil (Article), Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 39
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.156
- ↑ Land of Spectres, Dragon #258 (April 1999), p. 67
- ↑ Heroes of Light p. 100; "12 years ago"
- ↑ She dies in When Black Roses Bloom (p. 23); Domains of Dread (p. 17) puts the events of that module in 744 BC.
- ↑ Land of Spectres, Dragon #258 (April 1999), p. 66
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.152
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Spectre of the Black Rose p. 59-60. Note that this novel specifies the oath was given "seven years ago", which would be 745 BC, two years before Malocchio Aderre launches his pogrom.
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.148
- ↑ Heroes of Light p. 100; the ambush takes place when Inza was only 11 years old.
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 10-12
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Spectre of the Black Rose p. 60-66
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 16-17,34-38
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 40-44
- ↑ Heroes of Light p. 93
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 152-164
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 185
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 203-318
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 245-251
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.153
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 308-309
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 301
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.113
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.157
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.115
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Spectre of the Black Rose p. 312
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.108
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.120
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 310
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.122
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 Gazetteer IV p.129-130
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
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