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What if the Gears were actually the inspiration for Gustav's work? What if people get lost in the passages inside them, and they worm their way into minds with ideas on clockwork men and stuff like that?

It's a stretch, but I don't like any of the three explanations given in the book.

You mean ...

Leidenheim isn't a made up town. Dr. Mordenheim began his practice as a hospital surgeon there in 671. (or '03) by the Lamordian calendar. [M pp. 62-4]

Oh, sorry, I always assumed those people who drew online maps of Ravenloft had simply created Leidenheim themselves, which I thought was a good ...

Just some random bits of flavor text for Ludendorf:

A very strong chemical smell reaches your nostrils, and you look around for its origins. You spot one of the cleanly dressed public sanitation workers carefully pouring a keg of some whitish liquid along a gutter. The word “Chlorine” is written in ...

Here's an atmospheric situation the players could encounter upon first arriving in Ludendorf:

...just as you were beginning to think no strife could possibly form in such a place, you hear the sound of mean-spirited, aristocratic laughter. The source of the tittering turns out to be a dignified ...

The Oranger Greenhouse (location in Ludendorf):
This ring shaped, single story structure near the center of Ludendorf is built out of glass and gleaming brass, and serves as a small public park that is very popular with the gentry. The temperature inside is maintained at a mildly tropical level ...

NPC: Gatnom, paranoid fool and Useful Red Herring
Despite his perpetually sleepy looking eyes Gotnam is filled with barely contained manic energy. His every gesture is tersely melodramatic. He wears a heavily customized uniform of the militia, but in fact left the service a year ago. He now works as ...

Ironclad:
In Ludendorf, the PCs hear a massive crashing sound coming from near the docks. If they rush to the source of the noise they’ll see that a huge steam ship mostly made of metal has smashed into a bank of ice just beyond the docks. A crowd has gathered near the water to watch the drama, and ...

Atheist, no belief in any form of supernaturalism.