Liffe

Liffe
Culture Level	Medieval (7)
Ecology	Full
Climate & Terrain	Temperate
Year Formed	750 BC as a island within the Nocturnal Sea
Population
Races (%)	Humans 99%, Other 1%
Languages	Graben, Sithican, Vaasi
Religions	the Lawgiver, Ezra. The Thousand Gods*, Beast Cult*
Government	Senate of Liffe compose of its barons
Ruler(s)	Baron Lyron Evensong
Darklord(s)	Baron Lyron Evensong
Nationality	Liffen
Analog
Related Categories
Locations in Liffe
Transportation in Liffe
Inhabitants of Liffe
Former Inhabitants of Liffe
Flora of Liffe
Fauna of Liffe
Native Monsters of Liffe

Liffe is a island of notable size in the Nocturnal Sea. It is ruled by Baron Evensong from Krynn whose curse is to spend 100 years trapped in his study for every day that goes by in real time.. The three settlements in Liffe are Armeikos, Moondale, and Claveria; these three communities were taken from adventures described in the Book of Crypts.

The baron's rule of Liffe, both temporal and as a darklord, was somewhat curtailed in the Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer.

Biology

Flora

• Gorse
• Heather
• Peat moss
• Wildflowers (various)

Fauna

• Albatross
• Bat
• Badger
• Bear (black, brown, dire)
• Birds (finch, gannet, osprey, petrel, pigeon, robin, seagull, sparrow, swallow, swan, wren)
• Boar (normal, dire, razorback)
• Cat
• Centipede
• Deer
• Dog (among the breeds: Liffen Sheepdog and even Cooshee)
• Eagle (sea, dire, giant)
• Fox (normal, silver fox)
• Moose
• Rabbit
• Raven(normal, dire, giant)
• Rat (normal, dire)
• Owl (normal, giant)
• Weasel (normal, dire)
• Wolf

Native Horrors

• Allip
• Banshrae
• Baobhan Sith
• Bloodrose
• Boowray
• Burrow Root
• Carrion Crawler
• Charnel Hound
• Chelicera
• Cindar Swarm
• Chrall
• Crypt Chanter
• Doppelganger, dread
• Drownling
• Dryad
• Ettercap
• Fearweed
• Geist
• Ghost (and Ghost Brute)
• Greenvise
• Hag (Bog Hag)
• Haunt (bridge haunt, forest haunt, taunting haunt
• Lashweed
• Living Spell
• Lycanthrope (werewolf)
• Night Twist
• Ooze, snowflake
• Spriggan
• Stakewooid Tree
• Treant, dread
• Troll ({[Dread Troll|dread]], forest
• Vampire (Elven Vampire)

Chronology

• 697 BC (False History) The College of Liffe is founded.

• 702 BC Approx. year Baron Stelvin Hawke is born.

• Mid 720s (False History) A brood of nosferatu vampires terrorize Aferdale. They are eventually defeated.

• 736 BC-738 BC The future components of Liffe start forming.

• 736 BC A werewolf rampages through the area around Moondale, taking many lives. Adventurers intervene and kill it.

• 739 BC Shortly prior to the Grand Conjunction, Count Sulo Boritsi takes most of his family to Bergovitsa. He establishes the Boritsi Trading Company in Nova Vaasa and, through it, eventually expands the business out into the Nocturnal Sea. Sometime during or after the year 750 BC, he finances the creation of trading company offices in Armeikos.

• 740 BC Dhampirs, the spawn of a Nosferatu nest a few decades earlier, run amok in Moondale.

• 741 BC The future domain fragments begin fusing together into what will become Liffe.

• 743 BC Aferdale reaches its largest population of 1500. However, it's population begins dropping shortly after this peaking.

• 750 BC Liffe forms as a Core domain and an island in the Nocturnal Sea.

• 750 BC Adventurers discover the Cult of Malar in Aferdale. The cult is attacked, and Malisha is killed in the ensuing battle.

• 750 BC Jovis Blackwere buys an inn in Liffe and retires from active constabulary service.

• 750 BC or Later: With the formation of the Nocturnal Sea, Sulo Boritsi expands Boritsi Trading Company business to the sea. As part of this effort, he finances the creation of trading company offices in Armeikos.

• 756 BC Protest riots erupt at the University (formerly College) of Liffe. Breaking in to steal back his tuition under cover of the unrest, a student watches his coin purse explode in a cyclone of gold, which slays him and his companions.

• 757 BC Founding of the Patriots of Liffe.

• 759 BC Factors of the Carlyle Trading Company arrive in Armeikos and begin acquiring storage facilities and ships, threatening the Boritsis' dominance of the local shipping industry.

• 760 BC or shortly before (Transposession Temptation Dread Possibility] Colin Graben finds a cache of notes in Egertus. The notes mention the Apparatus as sought by a man known only as "M".

• 760 BC July Professor Viktor Hazan arrives in Liffe and begins exploring it in the search for Erik van Rijn. Hazan hears of a figure called the Alchemist residing there. Hazan tries to discern if this Alchemist is the same as the Alchemist of Mordentish folklore. However, the Alchemist turns Hazan turns him away.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Ravenloft Third Edition Domains of Dread
		Ravenloft Third Edition - p132 Domains of Dread - pp78-79
		Ravenloft Third Edition - inside cover, p133 Domains of Dread - pp77