The Nocturnal Sea
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| Culture Level | Varies by island, mostly CL 7 or CL 8[1][2] |
| Ecology | Full[1][2] |
| Climate & Terrain | Temperate Aquatic[1][2] |
| Year Formed | 750 BC evolved to the Nocturnal Sea, 635 BC as Nebligtode[3] |
| Population | 14,900[1][2] |
| Races (%) | Humans 99%, Other %1[2] |
| Languages | Grabenite, Sithican, Vaasi[1][2] |
| Religions | the Lawgiver, Ezra[1][2] |
| Government | Nothing formal for the sea itself, varies by island[1][2] |
| Ruler(s) | Varies by island |
| Darklord(s) | Meredoth[4] |
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Formed in 750 BC[5] in the wake of the Grand Conjunction[6], the Nocturnal Sea is an evolution of Nebligtode, a set of islands formerly in the Sea of Sorrows that included Todstein, Graben Island, and Knammen Island.[7]
As he was with Nebligtode[8], the darklord of the domain is Meredoth.[4] However, the reclusive necromancer has yet to completely realize the extent to which his domain has expanded.[9]
Beyond the islands that were formerly part of Nebligtode, a number of other islands rest in the Nocturnal Sea. The islands have their own darklords and most, if not all, were not seen in the Core before the formation of the Nocturnal Sea. The discovery of so many ports in such a short time (relative to the discoveries of such in the Sea of Sorrows) has left somehopeful for a navigable trade route from the Sea of Sorrows to the Nocturnal Sea. However, no evidence has appear to demonstrate this route exists beyond wishful thinking and hearsay.[10]
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"Behind The Curtain: What’s In A Name?
When it was introduced in the 2E module Ship of Horror, the domain of which the necromancer Meredoth is darklord was referred to as “Nebligtode”. In Domains of Dread, the same darklord’s territory is referred to as “Graben” in the Ravenloft Timeline, yet is re-styled “the Nocturnal Sea” in the geographic description of the Core. The Arthaus products are similarly inexact, listing the whole of the Nocturnal Sea as if it were a singular domain by that name. As the Nocturnal Sea is, to natives of Ravenloft, a geographic region that incorporates portions of at least half a dozen other domains, this Survey now restores the title of Meredoth’s domain to its original usage. In this and future FoS netbooks, “the Nocturnal Sea” will refer to the actual body of water, independent of domain borders. “Nebligtode” specifically means the sizable fraction of that Sea which falls under the necromancer’s purview as darklord."[11]
The Nocturnal Sea is a body of water that encompasses a handful of domains. The largest among these are the Nebligtode 
and Drowning Deep.
The Nocturnal Sea is subject to tides. The Schlammholme Islets are separated from Graben Island only by the highest of fall and spring tides. L'ile de la Tempete is subject to quite extreme tides. Curiously, the eastern end of the Vuchar River has become subject to tides that mirror those of the Nocturnal Sea
It includes mistways to Har'Akir, the Nightmare Lands, and Souragne.
Islands of the Nocturnal Sea
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Islands formerly part of Nebligtode:
- Graben Island is home to several small communities, most notably the Village of Graben. The Graben Family rules on behalf of Meredoth. It is located 75 miles east of Arbora.[10]
- Knammen Island, just west of Graben Island[10]
- Schlammholme Islets just South of Graben[10]
- Todstein, a bitterly cold climate noted by permafrost and arctic winds. It is covered with mausoleums and serves as the lair of Meredoth.[10]
Other Islands:
- Isle of the Ravens With a population of only one known human among the many, many ravens, this domain is ruled by the mysterious the Lady of Ravens.[10] Although never detailed in any official product prior to Domains of Dread, more details about the Lady of Ravens can be found in Quoth the Raven Issue 9 and the Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer.
- L'île de la Tempête was once an island of terror[12], but it joined the Nocturnal Sea in 750 BC.[10] The island holds a single lighthouse, whose misleading light leads ships to their dooms. Captain Alain Monette is the island's only permanent human inhabitant.[12]
- Liffe, is ruled by Baron Evensong[13] with three settlements (Armeikos, Moondale, and Claveria), all taken from adventures described in the Book of Crypts.[14] As a patchwork domain that resembles a microcosm of the Core, Liffe is a battleground between several demilords, each seeking a hold over the domain.[15]
- First seen in 753 BC, Locknar Cove is home to several islands in between Darkon, Liffe, and Nova Vaasa. These include the Dismal Four[16], mostly unihabited but notable because they shelter the shoreline town of Rutledge from severe weather.[17] Rutledge is the Cove's only notable community[16] Locknar Cove is discussed in the Book of Sacrifices, and Rutledge receives some more discussion in the Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer.
- Nedragonne is a land of insular, self-governing city states where internal prejudice or discrimination is next to nonexistent, save for a great suspicion of foreigners.[18] Like Sithicus, this domain draws inspiration from Krynn, with Krynnish-seeming dwarves, gnomess and even kender residing there beyond the usual humans.[18]
Ports of the Nocturnal Sea
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- Tidemore is a small Darkonese fishing port, sitting in the shadow of the Mountains of Misery north of Rookhausen and well south of Nevuchar Springs. The village is governed by Burgomeister Borganov. It is rumoured to be home to strange rituals and fiendish sacrifices, particulary upon its rocky beach.
- Rookhausen sits currently in ruins, at the edge of the Nocturnal Sea, in the south-eastern Darkon not far from the border with Nova Vaasa and the village of Rutledge.
- Rutledge is a port harbouring roughly 250 souls on the Nocturnal Sea that straddles the border between Darkon and Nova Vaasa. The hamlet has, as yet, been claimed by neither. Its lifeblood is fishing but it also serves as a pirate haven.
- Mavalga is a small fishing port on the Nocturnal Sea that harbours a population of 209 souls. It is not far south of Rutledge which itself stands on the border of Darkon and Nova Vaasa. This is to say that Mavalga lies on the edge of the Ehrendton in northeastern Nova Vaasa. It was assaulted by the Bad Wind in 755 BC.
- Skibbygger Beach is the leading ship building centre in Nova Vaasa. It lies on the Nocturnal Sea just north of the mouth of the Sydligdnar. It should be joined to Guldstrand Beach by a ferry.
- Guldstrand Beach is the leading port in Nova Vaasa. It lies on the Nocturnal Sea just south of the mouth of Sydligdnar. It is joined to Egertus by a steep path, to Kantora by a ferry, and almost certainly to Skibbygger Beach by a ferry.
- Kantora can be reached with small ships from the Nocturnal Sea via the Sydligdnar, although with difficulty owing to its current.
- Beach north of Arbora
Locations in the Nocturnal Sea
Inhabitants of the Nocturnal Sea
Ecology of the Nocturnal Sea
Flora of the Nocturnal Sea
Fauna of the Nocturnal Sea
Native Horrors
Chronology
- Mid 300s BC - False History - The false history of Nebligtode begins with Svidi Full-Sails colonization of Graben Island[19]
- Mid 400s - False History - Svidi's colony is wiped out by a plague.Svidi's colony is wiped out by a plague.[19]
- Mid 500s BC - False History? - Puzzling accounts of Darkonian false history speak of sailors encountering a figure resembling the Lady of Ravens. Whether these accounts are false history of Darkon or the Isle of the Ravens remains unknown. These reports make mention to even earlier folklore, and more reports continue to persist well over into the next two hundred years.[19]
- 580 BC - False History - Graben Manor is built on what will become later known as Graben Island.[19]
- 610 BC - False History - In Nebligtode, the Graben family moves onto the Island full-time, adopting the island's name for their own.[19]
633 BC - Alphatian Empire (Mystara) Meredoth accepts the title of Baron of Norwold with the understanding he would not be interrupted from his research. He gains an island of the coast.[23]
- 635 BC - [24] Meredoth Poisons His Subjects In a brutal winter, Meredoth poisons his subjects and reanimates them as lebendtod to keep them from bothering him for help. His island (or a version of his island) is taken to an unfamiliar land.[23] The domain of Nebligtode forms as a number of islands[8] in the Sea of Sorrows.[25] At some later date after spending some time exploring, Meredoth kills and reanimates the Graben Family.[26]
- 643 BC - Meredoth investigates Graben Island after noticing intruders coming from there.[19]
- 647 BC - In Nebligtode, the first reports of Meerdorf on Knammen Island date from this year.[19]
- 651 BC - On Graben Island in Nebligtode, Kirchenheim is settled permanently.[19]
- 654 BC or prior - Locknar Cove is taken by the Mists to form an Island of Terror.[16]
- 659 BC - On Graben Island in Nebligtode, Seeheim is founded.[19]
- {672 BC - The Graben Family Massacre In Nebligtode, Colin Graben murders his his aunt and uncle, but then Meredoth massacres him along with the rest of the Graben Family. Meredoth reanimates the lot of them as lebendtod and commands them to gather subjects for his vile experiments.[27]
- 677 BC - L'île de la Tempête forms as a lonely island of terror. Captain Alain Monette is its darklord.[27]
- 690 BC - The merchant ship Dragon's Gold enters Ravenloft in the domain of Île de la Tempete, and its crew falls victim to Monette.[28]
- 697 BC - False History - The College of Liffe is founded..[27]
- 724 BC - The old ship captain Captain Killian retires and leaves his ship, the Endurance, to his nephew, Garvyn[29]
- 732 BC - The Lady of Ravens comes to blows with her servant, Kalibos. She tosses him from the Flint Tower. Unbeknownst to her, Kalibos survives and establishes a lair nearby.[30]
- 734 BC - Captain Garvyn, his crew, and his ship, the Endurance become cursedfor dumping overboard the corpses of Madeline Stern, Jacob, and Charlotte Reisland which he had been hired to deliver to Todstein.[31] As a consequence, the Endurance became the Ship of Horrors.
- 737 BC - With the delivery of the corpses to their proper resting places, Captain Garvyn and the Endurance are freed from their curse[33] as the 2nd Verse of Hyskosa's Hexad comes to pass.[5]
- 737 BC - In Nebligtode, adventurers kill Meredoth and most of the undead Graben Family. Meredoth's clone animates. Both the new Meredoth clone and his Obedient Dead undergo several changes.[32]
- 739 BC - Shortly prior to the Grand Conjunction, Count Sulo Boritsi takes most of his family to Bergovitsa. He establishes the Boritsi Trading Company in Nova Vaasa and, through it, eventually expands the business out into the Nocturnal Sea sometime during or after 750 BC. Sometime thereafter, he finances the creation of trading company offices in Armeikos.[34]
- 740 BC - The Grand Conjunction occurs. Vechor disappears[35] and is cut off from the rest of the Demiplane.[36]
- 743 BC - After forging the sword Felauragoth, Kalibos enters the Tower of Flint, intent on killing the Lady. He fails and loses Felauragoth, but he escapes her wrath.[32]
- 750 BC - the Nocturnal Sea and its islands appear.[5] The Isle of Ravens and a number of other islands form from domains previously not in the Core. Vechor reemerges on the Nocturnal Sea's far eastern shores.[37]
- 750 BC or later - Nedragonne forms.[38]
- 751 BC - Captain Teach reaches the Nocturnal Sea via the Wake of the Loa mistway and begins a career of piracy.[39]
- 751 BC - Meredoth sends lebendtod scouts to investigate the mass undead reanimation in Necropolis. Death gains control over them, preventing their return.[39]
- 752 BC - The Mouse's notoriety as an expert burglar begins spreading along the eastern sea's coast.[39]
- 753 BC - Locknar Cove joins the Core in the eastern frontier between Nova Vaasa and Darkon.[16] A great storm marks its arrival, and the storm levels the Rutledge Lighthouse.[17]
- 753 BC - The War of the Sea Demons: Humanoid aquatic invaders harassed Vechorite coastal settlements throughout most of this year, withdrawing as mysteriously as they had come after several months of intermittent conflict.[40]
- 755 BC - The Bad Wind brings madness to Mavalga. Josef Zhitoff, Borcan aristocrat and captain of the Bulwark, confronts it there. Malvaga escapes total annihilation, but rumors persist of further attacks along the shores of the Nocturnal Sea.[41]
- 758 BC - Narana Hiregaard is to lead the crew of the Waveprowler, an effort sponsored by her family to fight the growing piracy on the Nocturnal Sea. The ship is to be captained by Onid Rhelarian.[42]
- Factors of the Carlyle Trading Company arrive in Armeikos and begin acquiring storage facilities and ships, threatening the Boritsis' dominance of the local shipping industry.[40]
- 760 BC - The Fraternity of Shadows explores the Nocturnal Sea, seeking the fugitive lich Erik van Rijn.[40]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Ravenloft Third Edition p.132
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.150
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.16-17
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Domains of Dread p.79
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Domains of Dread p. 17
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.24
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 17, 78-80
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ship of Horror p.54
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.80
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 Domains of Dread p.78
- ↑ The Fraternity of Shadows - Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Darklords p.66
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.151
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.78-79
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Book of Sacrifices p. 118
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer, p121-2.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Quoth the Raven Issue 9 p.117
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 19.8 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 388
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.17
- ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19
- ↑ Realm of Terror (Black Boxed Set) p. 86
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Domains of Dread p. 80
- ↑ Domains of Dread, p. 16
- ↑ Ship of Horror p.43
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.79-80
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 389
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 389, based upon the journal printed in Darklords p.67
- ↑ Ship of Horrors p.13
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 390
- ↑ Ship of Horrors p.12,38-39
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 391
- ↑ Ship of Horrors
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p.12
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Realm of Terror (Red Box) p. 19
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.80
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 78-80
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 9
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 392
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 393
- ↑ CoTN:D pg. 24-29
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood pg. 78, 143
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