Ravenloft Remix: Mordent

Mordent

Precis: Fantasy England through a Gothic lens.

Conspectus: Mordent is a land of forests, moors, and rocky beaches; Mordent's only major settlement is a city called Mordentshire that is governed by Daniel Foxgrove, the current mayor; Mordentshire is home to an important temple of the Church of Ezra; the folk of Mordent are mostly fishermen, and they are noted for being particularly evasive when asked personal questions; located in Mordent is the infamous House on Gryphon Hill, which is known to be haunted by the ghost of Lord Godefroy; also, located near Mordentshire is Heather House, home to Gennifer and Laurie Foxgrove-Weathermay—twin sisters who run an herbalist shop in town and who are also noted monster hunters; folklore maintains than an alchemist in Mordent once created a machine called the Apparatus, a magical device capable of casting a person's soul into oblivion, swapping souls between bodies, or splitting the good and evil in one person's soul into separate beings.