Souragne
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| Souragne | |
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| Culture Level | Chivalric (8) |
| Ecology | Full |
| Climate & Terrain | Warm Forests and Swamps |
| Year Formed | 635 |
| Population | 3,100 |
| Races (%) | Humans (99%), Other (1%) |
| Languages | Souragnien |
| Religions | the Loa for the masses, Church of Ezra for owning class |
| Government | aristocratic elected leader, independent settlements |
| Ruler(s) | |
| Darklord(s) | Lord of the Dead |
| Nationality | Souragnien |
| Analog | Antebellum Louisiana of the Southern United States |
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Souragne is a domain based around stereotypical Louisiana voodoo, and as such consists primarily of a vast swamp. The two most important individuals in Souragne are the darklord Anton Misroi, a zombie lord, and Chicken Bone, the most powerful voodan (Ravenloft's equivalent of a houngan) in the swamp.
Souragne's place of origin is from a formerly jungle and swamp area along the Thunder River, an area surrounding Sasserine in the world of Oerth. The jungle and swamp had been cleared for use as sprawling, privately owned plantations. Providing food crops and exports for the city of Sasserine. The Thunder River river's seasonal flooding made the land particularly rich, although those who farmed it constantly had to battle reincroaching jungle vegetation and beasts. Cassava, coffee, cotton, millet, rice, sugarcane, and tea - as well as some more traditional farm crops- made up Sasserine's plantations most abundant products. (Dragon Magazine, issue #349)
Biology
Flora
Fauna
Native Horrors
- Giant Insects[1]
- Shambling Mounds[1]
- Undead (especially Skeletons and Zombies)[1]
- Will O' Wisps[1]
Chronology
528 BC Ferdinand Misroi discovers Souragne on the Prime Material Plane.[2]
- 535 BCFalse History? Pierre Tarascon meets Hyskosa, whom reveals to him Hyskosa's Hexad two hundred years before the dukkar actually divined the prophecy.[3]
- 599 BC Anton Misroi is born.[2]
635 BC[4] Mistakenly thinking his wife and another plantation owner are engaging in a tryst, Anton Misroi orders his servants to drown them in quicksand. Before his wife dies, she curses him, causing Misroi to sink as well. He calls out to the powers that be to not let him perish, and the Dark Powers answer his cry by transforming him into a zombie lord. After he is chased off his own property into the swamp, Souragne forms as a domain of Ravenloft.[5]
- 635 BC-645 BC During this ten year period, a period of inner turmoil, isolation from the outside world, and harsh laws rock Souragne.[6]
- 635 BC Captain Edvard Renfus, a Darkonian sailor, is the first documented foreigner to spot Souragne after it has entered the Mists[7]
- 638 BC of earlier the Cemetery of Marais d'Tarascon is sealed due to some horrible event that is now unknown.[8]
- 645 BC Anton Misroi applies the supernatural knowledge he gained from the Maiden of the Swamp to become the Lord of the Dead. He gains fantastic mystical power and appears alive and human once more. However, by infusing himself with supernatural might, Misroi binds his essence to the swamp. Therefore, he cannot walk on the solid ground of the western half of his domain.[9]
- 645 BC The period of chaos in Souragne seemingly ends. Trade is reestablished, and the plantation owners free their slaves on paper, but many former slaves remain so far in debt not much has changed.[6]
- 689 BC Franklin Tennyson, Ezrite missionary, comes to Souragne.[10]
- 691 BC The Church of Ezra is made the official state-religion of Souragne.[10]
- 697 BC Etienne Lefebvre, son of a magistrate, abandons the legal profession in order to join the clergy of the Church of Ezra.[11]
- 699 BC Sentire Franklin Tennyson embraces the teachings of the Second Book of Ezra. However, the Souragnien public's reception of these teachings is less than enthusiastic.[10]
- 700 BC Early Year Shortly before his death, Sentire Franklin Tennyson sends Etienne Lefebvre to the Mordent branch of the Churzh of Ezra.[12]
- 700 BC SpringSentire Franklin Tennyson dies of malaria.[10] His successor is Manon Larouche, who would later become known as the infamous Ti-Maman.[13]
- 702 BC Etienne Lefebvre returns to Souragne from Mordent. Ti-Maman names him secretary of the Souragnien branch of the Church of Ezra.[11]
- 705 BC Ti-Maman shakes things up in the Souragnien Church of Ezra by her inclusion of Voodan loas and practices into the local Ezra church.[13]
- 706 BC Following advise from her secretary Etienne Lefebrve, Ti-Maman relocates from the Church of Ezra in Port d'Elhour to the one in Marais d'Tarascon.[13]
- 709 BC Following the creation of the Third Book of Ezra in Dementlieu, local attention in Souragne turns to a Book of Ezra Ti-Maman is supposedly writing.[12]
- 710 BC Ti-Maman is assassinated. Etienne Lefebvre is her successor.[13]714 BCMay Statues of Ti-Maman begin appearing in personal shrines of worship in Souragne.[14]
- 715 BC First known sighting of Chickenbone in Souragne.[15]
- 715 BC Simon LaFleur is born to a wealthy family in Port d'Elhour.[16]
- 732 BC La Maison Soulombre is abandoned after one of the workers murders the plantation owner. This will become important later as the Fraternity of Shadows eventually purchases it and uses it as a local headquarters.[17]
- 734 BC Simon LaFleur attempts to kill Chicken Bone, but he is killed instead. Chicken Bone reanimates him as a juju zombie.[18]
- 739 BC Luc Tarascon gets his fortune told by the Vistani woman Valana. She provides him with the 4th Verse of Hyskosa's Hexad. Using this information, Luc and Marcel Tarascon explore underground tombs to locate the the Hyskosa Scroll. Marcel is struck down by the undead, and the experience transforms Luc into a lost one. Following this misfortune, Jean Tarascon, Marcel's twin brother, arranges for Marcel's resurrection. However, the spell fails, and Marcel is left a zombie lord. Jean himself is driven to madness and hides the scroll from his brother, determined to "protect" him from it all costs.[19]
- A string of murders and disappearances rocks Marais d'Tarascon. Marcel Tarascon and Jean Tarascon are responsible.[20]
- 739 BC[21] As a lunar eclipse hangs low overhead, adventurers destroy the zombie lord Marcel Tarascon.[22]Thus, the 4th Verse of Hyskosa's Hexad comes to pass.[21]
- 752 BC Lady Marie-Félicité St. Croix documents several creatures native to Souragne.[23]
- 759 BC Death, the darklord of Necropolis, sends emissaries to Anton Misroi, petitioning Misroi to give up his necromantic secrets for nothing in return. Offended by the impertinence, Misroi destroys all of Death's agents save for one, sent back to Death to deliver Misroi's refusal.[24]
- 760 BCJanuary Upon the suggestion of Ambrose Skully, Professor Viktor Hazan, Dr. Anthony Reuland, and a number of others from the Ste. Ronges Cell of the Fraternity of Shadows settle down in La Maison Soulombre, a lonely plantation outside of Port d'Elhour. Led by Hazan, they begin the hunt for the traitorous Erik van Rijn in Souragne.[25] Later that month, Anton Misroi calls them to his presence, where they proceed to strike a truce with each other.[26]
- 760 BC The Fraternity of Shadows creates the Cellar Door, an artificial mistway. It links Souragne to Richemulot and back.[27]
- 760 BC Sentire Etienne Lefebvre has gathered a group of priests to unveil his version of the Fifth Book of Ezra on the 50th anniversary of Ti-Maman's death.[28]
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Souragne is the new headquarters of the Fraternity of Shadows[29]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.41
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 42
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 44
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.16
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.97
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 45
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 41
- ↑ Night of the Walking Dead p. 21
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 87, based upon information from Dance of the Dead and Domains of Dread p. 97-98
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Souragne Gazetteer p. 57
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 60
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 59
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Souragne Gazetteer p. 58
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 61
- ↑ Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix I & II p. 95
- ↑ Book of Sorrows p. 42; he was 19 at the time of his death "18 years ago" from 752 BC.
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p.25
- ↑ Book of Sorrows p. 42; he was 19 at the time of his death "18 years ago" from 752 BC
- ↑ Night of the Walking Dead p. 2-4
- ↑ Night of the Walking Dead p.3-5
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Domains of Dread p.17
- ↑ Night of the Walking Dead p. 39-40
- ↑ Children of the Bayou, Book of Sorrows
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 69, "a year ago" from 760 BC
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 5
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 67-69
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 16, p. 39-43
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 64
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer - At the FoS Library
Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue
References
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Dragon Magazine, issue #349- p78 | |
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Dragon Magazine, issue #349 p.78 | |
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Ravenloft Third Edition - p173 |
