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|population=600<ref name="Blackbriars - A Ravenloft Adventure p.4">[[Blackbriars - A Ravenloft Adventure]] p.4</ref> 
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|ruler=[[Lord Blackwood]] in name, but effectively [[Lady Ysabelle Blackwood]] due to the lord's illness<ref name="Blackbriars - A Ravenloft Adventure p.4">[[Blackbriars - A Ravenloft Adventure]] p.4</ref>
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Wayston is an isolated village surrounded by [[the Mists]] of Ravenloft and the [[Blackbriars Wood]]. Said woods seems to have a malign intelligence about it, for it has been claiming the lives of Wayston's citizens over the past week since the theft of the [[Mourning Lantern]] from [[the Wayshrine]]. Few seldom openly die by violence but instead merely go [[missing]] in the night<ref>Blackbriars p. 3,6</ref>.

==History<ref name="Blackbriars - A Ravenloft Adventure p.4">[[Blackbriars - A Ravenloft Adventure]] p.4</ref>==
Wayston was built upon land once held sacred by an ancient order of [[druid]]s. The builders of the town demolished a circle of standing stones. Though the foundation of the town was created to emulate the standing stones and placate the divine, the [[spirit]]s of the forest nonetheless took offense at the disturbance. The spirits thus turned their wrath upon Wayston, being placated only through the sacrifice of [[Saint Lucia]] in order to create the [[Mourning Lantern]].

The Lantern hung from the Wayshrine for two centuries before its recent theft, warding off the evil of the forest. After its recent theft, the woods swallowed the path out of town, trapping all within. A week has passed, with more and more people vanishing each night as they are claimed by the [[:category:Blight (Plant Monster)|blights]] serving the Gulthias tree responsible for Blackbriar Forest's corruption.

==[[:category:Locations in Wayston|Locations in Wayston]]<ref name="Blackbriars p. 6-7">Blackbriars p. 6-7</ref>==
*[[Blackwood Manor]]
*[[The Jumping Jack]]
*[[Sanatorium of Wayston|Sanatorium]]
*[[Summerhawk Residence]]
*[[The Wayshrine]]

==[[:category:Inhabitants of Wayston|Notable Inhabitants of Wayston]]<ref name="Blackbriars p. 6-7">Blackbriars p. 6-7</ref>==
*The Blackwoods, Lord and Lady Blackwood
*[[Leora Moonshadow]], [[elf]] [[druid]] and caretaker of the Wayshrine
*[[Linus the Carpenter]]
*the [[Maysprouts]], [[halfling]] owner and operators of the Jumping Jack
*[[Meryn]], local [[doctor]]
*[[Summerhawk Family]]
*[[Thessaly]]

==Biology==
===Fauna===
*[[Raven]]s<ref>Blackbriars p. 9</ref>

===Native Horrors===
*[[:category:Blight (Plant Monster)|Blights]]

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