Mordent

Mordent
Culture Level	Renaissance (9)
Ecology	Full
Climate & Terrain	Forests, Plains, Swamps
Year Formed	579 BC
Population	5,500
Races (%)	99% Human
Languages	Mordentish*, Falkovnian, Vaasi
Religions	Church of Ezra, Church of Hala
Government	Hereditary Aristocracy
Ruler(s)	Lord Jules Weathermay
Darklord(s)	Lord Wilfred Godefroy
Nationality
Analog	English countryside
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Locations in Mordent
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Inhabitants of Mordent
Former Inhabitants of Mordent
Flora of Mordent
Fauna of Mordent
Native Monsters of Mordent

Mordent is the setting of the module Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill. After one of Strahd and Azalin's many attempts to escape the Demiplane of Dread, they found themselves in Mordent. After the events involving the Alchemist and the Apparatus, they were sent back, and Mordent was added to the demiplane as a new domain.

The Darklord of Mordent is the ghost Lord Wilfred Godefroy.

Things, Creatures & Personnages of Legend

• The Alchemist

• The House on Gryphon Hill

• George Weathermay

Biology

Flora

• Wraithroot is native to Mordent.

Native Horrors

• Bog Hounds are sometimes found on the moors.

Geography

This page incorporates content from the inactive Mordent Cartographic Society. Used with their express permission.

Note: The above map have serious inaccuraties when compared to that used in the 3rd edition of Ravenloft.

Terrain

Forests

• The Forest of the Ancients

• The Lightless Wood

Communication

Rivers

• The Arden River flows north out of Valachan into Arden Bay.

The Mordent Cartographic Society also supplied a few non-canon river names. The 'Volfen' is the otherwise unnamed tributary that originates in what was previously Arkandale, while the 'Newbury River' is an entirely new tributary out of Richemulot.

Roads

• The Mill Road runs from The Forest of the Ancients to Mordentshire.

Economy

Landmarks

• The Pale Lady and the Ashen Man are local names for the chalk cliffs on either side of Arden Bay.

Population Distribution

Towns

Mordentshire

Blackburn's Crossing

Steadwall (ghost town)

Tumbledown

Villages

Mordent is dotted with small villages. Waterford is mentioned by John Mangrum in his adventure 'The Man Who Lost His Mind'. Crawford is a village derived from the Dungeon adventure 'The Unkindness of Ravens', by Jason Kuhl. Glenwich is a take on the English Dunwich (a real village on a sandcliff that threatens to be swallowed by the sea). The last site also is the location of Preston Hill, which is featured in Children of the Night:Ghosts.

Authority

Darklord

Godefroy was a fairly inconsequential darklord, preferring to rule over the spirits in his manor, until about 750, when an assault on the Gryphon Hill manor roused him out of his complacency. He now uses the spirits of the house as spies, informants, and sometimes hostages to control the living.

Law Enforcement

The Lamplighters serve as detectives. All city watchmen are volunteers.

Chronology

BC

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Ravenloft Third Edition Domains of Dread
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,18,42-43 Ravenloft Third Edition - pp13,17,129-131 Domains of Dread - p41 Howls in the Night - pp1-2 Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - pp24-25,99 Realm of Terror - pp76-77 I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin - pp232-234, p260
		Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp8-9 Ravenloft Third Edition - inside cover Domains of Dread - p42 Howls in the Night - inside cover Ravenloft Campaign Setting - poster map Realm of Terror - poster map