The Ashfire Club and the Cathedral of the Three Anguishes

Two locations in the city of Chancel in Krevborna:

The Ashfire Club Grotto

The Ashfire Club is an exclusive social club for “persons of quality”; its members are drawn from the ranks of Chancel’s aristocratic families, the wealthy, and the socially well-positioned. 

    • Many assume that the club is merely a contrivance that obscures its members’ drunken escapades, experiments with unusual vices, and ribald sexual adventures, but rumors have always circulated that the club serves a darker design.

    • The Ashfire Club maintains a secret grotto used to host raucous celebrations and unholy rites in a secluded setting—safe from the prying eyes of the general public.  

    • The grotto’s chambers are decorated with statues that depict various members of the Ashfire Club as nymphs, satyrs, succubi, and incubi possessing a virile, energetic beauty they often do not evidence in their mortal forms. 

    • Sir Francis Lowood, the club’s founder and de facto president, promotes an indecent atmosphere of carousing within the grotto, employing a number of prostitutes and musicians as retainers at his beck and call.

    • Within the grotto’s deepest chambers, Lowood introduces his compatriots to devil worship.

    • To maintain their wealth, the members of the Ashfire Club secretly engage in the underground slave trade; their captives are kept within cells in the grotto until they can be transported elsewhere under the cover of night.

The Cathedral of Three Anguishes

Dominating Chancel’s skyline, the Cathedral of Three Anguishes is the most magnificent place of worship in Krevborna. 

    • A towering edifice of black stone and ornate stained glass, the Cathedral of Three Anguishes is the seat of the High Theologian’s power. 

    • It is rumored that the Church of Holy Blood maintains an archive of forbidden books within the cathedral and that its deepest cellars house cells where inquisitors torture heretics, apostates, and enemies of the faith.