Ravenloft Remix: Dementlieu

Dementlieu

Precis: Fantasy urban France through a Gothic lens.

Conspectus: A hilly and forested coastal domain on the Sea of Sorrow that is the most civilized and advanced culture in Ravenloft; Dementlieu is home to Port-a-Lucine, a walled city whose homes and businesses are arrayed around a small fortress; a prominent temple of the Church of Ezra lies on the outskirts of Port-a-Lucine; nearby Chateaufaux (a trade village) is ruled by a mayor who has lost his grip on sanity; the realm is famous for artists producing masterwork landscape and portrait paintings; as a people the denizens of Dementlieu are guided by rational, enlightenment principles; however, the gentry treat the poor as little more than slaves; poverty, disease, and crime are common among the lower rungs of society; the upper classes set the fashion for the rest of Ravenloft; Dementlieu is ruled by lord-governor Marcel Guignol, but it is rumored that Dominic d'Honaire, a member of the lord-governor's advisory council, is the power behind the throne; Dr. Vilhelm Mikki operates a sanitarium famous for treating nervous disorders—the sanatorium is located in the countryside outside Chateaufaux.