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The fictional campaign setting of Ravenloft for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game is divided geographically into a number of domains.

Aggarath

Aggarath is a unique domain that is in actuality a ruby gemstone just roughly an inch across, but appears as much larger once entered. Once just an empty, featureless realm it is now the personal domain of Chardath Spulzeer who was transported inside with his undead sister Marble from the Forgotten Realms
campaign setting, and—changed by their arrival—it is now divided into sections called Facets, which reflect aspects of Chardath's peronality and his twisted memories.

Arkandale

Originally formed by an adventurous natural werewolf by the name of Nathan Timothy. Son of Eowin Timothy, a powerful werewolf from Mordent, Nathan was always compelled to wander. On some level, he seemed to believe that he might escape the Demiplane of Dread through his wanderings. Being a natural werewolf and raised as a monster, he left a trail of murders in his wake. When there was nowhere left to explore, he entered the Mists. They obliged him with a domain of his own: Arkandale.

Arkandale is riddled with small, sharp hills and thick forrests. The land is abundant with game animals and wolves, and Arkandale is (was) well known for the furs it's settlements produced. These small villages are clustered around the Musarde River, which cuts a broad swath across the domain. Captain Nathan Timothy pilots his paddleboat, the Virago, up and down the river as a merchant.

Note: Nathan's son, Alfred, is the darklord of Verbrek, to the south.

When the Grand Conjunction occurred, the Dark Powers seemed unimpressed with the evil Nathan exhibited. His curse was to be unable to leave the river, lest he begin entering a helpless, comatose state. Unlike most darklords, Nathan learned to live with the curse, even coming to enjoy the river all the more. While he was not a good man, and was still a ruthless werewolf, his evils were no longer so dramatic or pervasive that he waranted a domain of his own. His son, Alfred, however, was indulging in worship of a Wolf God, and making ruthless sacrifices and decisions for no reason greater than his own sense of hatred and desire to be a monster. When the Grand Conjunction (Or Great Upheaval) was finished, Verbrek had absorbed Arkandale. Nathan Timothy was released from his curse, and remains captain of the Virago as of 755 Barovian Calendar. His travels now take him all over the core, and he is famous for providing a safe ride and gregarious company. Then again, no one would hear from anyone who dissappeared on his ship...

Avonleigh

Part of the Shadowborn Cluster ruled by the ghost of a necromancer named Morgoroth. Morgoroth exemplifies the concept of an "omnipresent" darklord, existing only as the influence he exerts on his domain (whispers in the wind, unnaturally cold wind,) until the mirror shards in which his soul is trapped are reassembled. The Knights of the Circle, a knightly order founded by Alexi Shadowborn, meets at a circle of standing stones located within this domain.

Barovia

Barovia is the oldest domain in Ravenloft. It was formed from a part of the ancestral lands of Strahd von Zarovich at the time when he murdered his brother Sergei to win the hand of the beautiful Tatyana in the year 351 of the Barovian Calendar.

Barovia is loosely based on real-world Transylvania. The country is mostly mountainous (the Balinok range) and covered in dense woods. The climate is cold with frigid winters.

Strahd von Zarovich remains the darklord of Barovia, inhabiting the castle Ravenloft, close to the original village of Barovia (otherwise unnamed), the de facto political centre of the land. Other large settlements include Zeidenberg, Immol, Teueldorf, Vallaki and Krezk.

The population is 98% human, with native Barovians and the lower-class emigrees from Gundarak, the Gundarakites. The Vistani, though a one percent minority, are influential due to their compact with Strahd.

The most popular language, Balok, shows patterns of Slavic influence.

Blaustein

An island domain, battered by storms, Blaustein is the domain of Bluebeard, a charming but murderous man, rumoured to be an ex-pirate. Much like the fictional character he is based on, Bluebeard is a serial wife-killer who, prior to acquiring his Domain, acted almost exactly like his fairy-tale counterpart. His curse is that his slain wives rise as undead ghosts devoted to him, but he finds them abhorrent. They are bound to the castle where he lives, and the curse also forces him to return there around every 3-4 days.

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