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|culture_lvl=Chivalric
|culture_lvl=Chivalric<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|ecology=Full
|ecology=Full<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|terrain=Temperate forests, hills
|terrain=Temperate forests, hills<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|year_formed=[[603 BC]]
|year_formed=[[603 BC]]<ref name="RLCS p.17">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.17</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.19">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.19</ref>
|population=6,900
|population=6,900<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|races=Humans 99%, other 1%
|races=Humans 99%, other 1%<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|languages=[[Balok]], [[Luktar]], [[Mordentish]], [[Falkovnian]], [[Vaasi]]
|languages=[[Balok]]*, [[Luktar]], [[Mordentish]], [[Falkovnian]], [[Vaasi]]
|religions=[[Church of Ezra]], [[Hala]]
|religions=[[Church of Ezra]], [[Hala]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|government=Aristocracy
|government=Formerly independent settlements transitioning towards [[despotism]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
|ruler=[[Malocchio Aderre]]
|ruler=[[Malocchio Aderre]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref> ; Previously: [[Gabrielle Aderre]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 47">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 47</ref> and, before her, [[Bakholis]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 44-46">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 45-46</ref>
|darklord=[[Gabrielle Aderre]]
|darklord=[[Gabrielle Aderre]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref> ; Previously: [[Bakholis]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 45-46">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 45-46</ref>
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|nationality=[[Invidian]]
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Ruled by [[Gabrielle Aderre]]
A land of passion torn by civil war and awash with the blood of ethnic strife, [[Invidia]] hangs on by a tenuous thread above the jaws of all-out chaos.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 47-49">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 47-49</ref> The [[fiend]]ish [[tyrant]] [[Malocchio Aderre]] deposed the lackadaisical rule of his mother [[Gabrielle Aderre]]<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 47">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 47</ref> and has begun to unite formerly independent settlements of Invidia into a single nation, though one that is firmly beneath his heel. Yet, as the much-feared [[Dukkar]], he mainly seeks power to eradicate the [[Vistani]] and torment those around him.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 54">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 54</ref>


Prison of [[Malocchio]]
Malocchio is opposed by an alliance of strange bedfellows thanks to the charm and wiles of Gabrielle Aderre. Through her proxies [[Matton Blanchard]] and [[Ardonk Szerieza (NPC)|Ardonk Szerieza]], she has drawn on [[Kartakan]] [[wolfwere]]s and oppressed [[Gundarakite]] [[:category:resister|resisters]]. However, her manipulations threaten to tear her fragile alliance apart.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 47-48,145">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 47-48,145</ref>


Absorbed part of [[Gundarak]] during [[the Grand Conjunction]]
For his part, Malocchio may be little better off in his predicament than his mother. He leads a powerful army of [[mercenary|mercenaries]] bolstered by [[ogre]]s, [[giant]]s, and other [[monster]]s not often found elsewhere, let alone in the employ of a military.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 55-56">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 55-56</ref> However, the incursion of his Vistani-hunting mercenaries into other domains has earned the enmity of other neighboring powers and their lords, most notably [[Ivan Dilisnya]] and [[Count Strahd von Zarovich]]. Furthermore, Malocchio's army was greatly weakened by the mass slaughter in [[the Hour of Screaming Shadows]].<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 49,57">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 49,57</ref>


[[Category:The Core]]
[[Category:The Core]]
===Mountains===
===Mountains===
[[Bleak Sisters]]
*[[Bleak Sisters]]
*[[Prestige Mountains]]


==Chronology==
*[[457 BC]] [[Duke Treholan|Treholan]] wipes out his rivals nobles and their families. He builds [[Castle Loupet]].<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 43">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.43</ref>
*[[603 BC]] [[Bakholis]], descendant of Duke Treholan, attains power. After a stint of rule through [[cruelty]] and horror<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 44">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.44</ref>, Bakkholis becomes infatuated with [[Marta]]. Marta is in love with [[Karlus]]. For their resistance of Bahkolis' wishes, he has Karlus [[maimed]] and [[eaten]] in front of Marta's eyes as several of his [[soldier]]s have their way with her. Before he kills her, she [[curse]]s him. His curse causes him to become a werewolf, and Invdia is drawn into [[the Mists]].<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 45">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.45</ref>
*603 BC The next full moon after Invidia enters Ravenloft, Bakholis transforms and goes on a rampage around the castle. His family are among the casualties. Initially shocked and horrified, Bakholis reacts by making his rule even more [[cruel]].<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 45">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.45</ref>
*[[613 BC]] [[Kartakass]] is revealed.<ref name="Gazetteer I p. 93">[[Gazetteer I]] p.93</ref><ref name="DoD p.16">[[Domains of Dread]] p.16</ref>
*613 BC [[False History]]: The [[Invidian Occupation]] of [[Kartakass]] ends with the fall of [[Dargacht Keep]]<ref name="Gazetteer I p. 93">[[Gazetteer I]] p.93</ref>
* {{netbook-small}}[[711 BC]] Agents serving [[Duke Gundar]] abduct [[Orinda Nahle]] and [[Perryn Nahle]] from [[Invidia]] and drag them across the border to [[Castle Hunadora]].<ref>[[Lights in the Fog]], [[Book of Secrets]] p.124-125</ref>
* {{netbook-small}}[[724 BC]] The Mists draw an [[outlander]] [[priest]] named [[Keith de Lalune (NPC)|Keith de Lalune]], into the [[forest]]s of [[Invidia]]. He prays to his [[deity]], but it seems his god has left him. Keith loses his way in the forest for a time, before arriving in [[Karina]]. There [[Father Daltrey]], the local high priest of [[Ezra]], saves him from an angry mob and takes him to the nearby church, [[L'Eglise de Notre Peindre Dame]]. Keith receives shelter and healing there, and he soon converts to Ezra.<ref name="Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p. 117-118">[[Undead Sea Scrolls 2002]] p.117-118</ref>
*[[729 BC]] After [[Gabrielle Aderre]] leaves her mother, [[Isabella Aderre]], to die at the hands of a [[werewolf]], the Mists take Gabrielle to Invidia, where she faces and kills Bakholis, becoming Invidia's new darklord and ruler.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 145">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.145</ref>
*[[729 BC]] The [[Invidian]] [[peasant]]ry revolt against Bakholis' decaying regime and burn part of [[the Citadel]].<ref name="The Evil Eye p. 29">[[The Evil Eye]] p. 29</ref>
*[[729 BC]] The overthrow of Bakholis is celebrated in [[Kartakass]]. [[Kartakan]] [[merchant]]s forge trade alliances with [[Invidian]] settlements.<ref name="Gazetteer I p. 105">[[Gazetteer I]] p. 105</ref>
*[[740 BC]] [[The Grand Conjunction]] causes the land that was formerly in [[Gundarak]] to be split down the middle between [[Barovia]] and [[Invidia]].<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 39">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 39</ref>
*[[746 BC]] [[The Gentleman Caller]] beguiles [[Gabrielle Aderre]] and sires [[Malocchio Aderre]] with her.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 145">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.145</ref>
*[[747 BC]] [[Malocchio]] is recognized as the new [[dukkar]].<ref>[[The Evil Eye]]</ref><ref name="DoD p.17">[[Domains of Dread]] p.17</ref><ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref> He usurps political rulership over the domain from his mother [[Gabrielle Aderre]].<ref name="RLCS p.18">[[Ravenloft Third Edition]] p.18</ref><ref name="RLPHB p.20">[[Ravenloft Player's Handbook]] p.20</ref> Relations with [[Kartakass]] become strained as a result.<ref name="Gazetteer I p. 105">[[Gazetteer I]] p. 105</ref>
*[[747 BC]] '''Winter''' Malocchio has brought Gabrielle to the brink of [[madness]], but [[Matton Blanchard]] frees her and nurses her back to health.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 145">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.145</ref>
*[[748 BC]] [[Ardonk Szerieza]] begins fanning the flames of the Gundarakite separatist movement.<ref>[[Gaz 1]], p 19.</ref> He comes to lead the [[Barovian]] Gundarakite rebels.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 48">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.48</ref> Gabrielle Aderre beguiles him. They begin an illicit affair, and Aderre gains another tool to manipulate the Gundarakites with.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 49">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.49</ref>
*[[750 BC]] [[Carnival (Society)|Carnival]] saves the [[Skurra]] known as [[Scream (Vistani)|Scream]] from the [[Dukkar]]'s [[mercenaries]], and she, [[Leer]], and [[Pry]] form [[the Fates Three]].<ref name="Carnival p. 39">[[Carnival]] p.39</ref>
*750 BC '''Midyear''' Gabrielle Aderre and the [[Gundarakite]] [[rebel]]s capture [[Castle Hunadora]]. Her hold on the Gundarakite rebels is strong, and they rebuke Malocchio's retaliation.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 47">[[Gazetteer IV]] p. 47</ref>
*750 BC Under Malocchio Aderre, Invidia negotiates a military alliance with Falkovnia. Aderre employs Falkovnian [[soldier]]s to boost his [[mercenary]] forces and help exterminate the [[Vistani]].<ref name="Gaz IV p.47-48">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.47-48</ref>
*[[752 BC]] After conspiring with [[Azrael Dak]], Malocchio sends in troops ot capture [[Nedragaard Keep]], but [[Vlad Drakov]] holds back all [[Falkovnian]] [[soldier]]s from the endeavors. The [[Night of Screaming Shadows]] commences, and Malocchio's invasion force is slain down to the last man.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 49">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.49</ref>
* {{netbook-small}}[752 BC [[Keith de Lalune]] calls for an [[orphanage]] to be constructed on [[Tower Street]] in [[Karina]].<ref name="Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p. 122">[[Undead Sea Scrolls 2002]] p.122</ref>
*[[753 BC]] '''Late Year'''; Gabrielle is pregnant with [[Lucita Aderre]], though she does not know whether Matton Blanchard or Ardonk Szeriezia is the father.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 145">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.145</ref>
*[[757 BC]] The incursion of Malocchio's mercenaries into Borca drives [[Ivan Dilisnya]] up the wall. By this year, he has commissioned his own killers for hire to terminate any Invidians that come over the border looking for Vistani.<ref name="Gazetteer IV p. 32">[[Gazetteer IV]] p.32</ref>
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Invidia
Culture Level Chivalric[1]
Ecology Full[1]
Climate & Terrain Temperate forests, hills[1]
Year Formed 603 BC[2][3]
Population 6,900[1]
Races (%) Humans 99%, other 1%[1]
Languages Balok*, Luktar, Mordentish, Falkovnian, Vaasi
Religions Church of Ezra, Hala[1]
Government Formerly independent settlements transitioning towards despotism[1]
Ruler(s) Malocchio Aderre[1] ; Previously: Gabrielle Aderre[4] and, before her, Bakholis[5]
Darklord(s) Gabrielle Aderre[1] ; Previously: Bakholis[6]
Nationality Invidian
Analog
Related Categories
Locations in Invidia
Transportation in Invidia
Inhabitants of Invidia
Former Inhabitants of Invidia
Flora of Invidia
Fauna of Invidia
Native Monsters of Invidia

A land of passion torn by civil war and awash with the blood of ethnic strife, Invidia hangs on by a tenuous thread above the jaws of all-out chaos.[7] The fiendish tyrant Malocchio Aderre deposed the lackadaisical rule of his mother Gabrielle Aderre[4] and has begun to unite formerly independent settlements of Invidia into a single nation, though one that is firmly beneath his heel. Yet, as the much-feared Dukkar, he mainly seeks power to eradicate the Vistani and torment those around him.[8]

Malocchio is opposed by an alliance of strange bedfellows thanks to the charm and wiles of Gabrielle Aderre. Through her proxies Matton Blanchard and Ardonk Szerieza, she has drawn on Kartakan wolfweres and oppressed Gundarakite resisters. However, her manipulations threaten to tear her fragile alliance apart.[9]

For his part, Malocchio may be little better off in his predicament than his mother. He leads a powerful army of mercenaries bolstered by ogres, giants, and other monsters not often found elsewhere, let alone in the employ of a military.[10] However, the incursion of his Vistani-hunting mercenaries into other domains has earned the enmity of other neighboring powers and their lords, most notably Ivan Dilisnya and Count Strahd von Zarovich. Furthermore, Malocchio's army was greatly weakened by the mass slaughter in the Hour of Screaming Shadows.[11]

Mountains

Chronology


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Gazetteer IV p. 39
  2. ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.17
  3. ↑ Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gazetteer IV p. 47
  5. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 45-46
  6. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 45-46
  7. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 47-49
  8. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 54
  9. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 47-48,145
  10. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 55-56
  11. ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 49,57
  12. ↑ Gazetteer IV p.43
  13. ↑ Gazetteer IV p.44
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Gazetteer IV p.45
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Gazetteer I p.93
  16. ↑ Domains of Dread p.16
  17. ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets p.124-125
  18. ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p.117-118
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Gazetteer IV p.145
  20. ↑ The Evil Eye p. 29
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Gazetteer I p. 105
  22. ↑ The Evil Eye
  23. ↑ Domains of Dread p.17
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Ravenloft Third Edition p.18
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.20
  26. ↑ Gaz 1, p 19.
  27. ↑ Gazetteer IV p.48
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Gazetteer IV p.49
  29. ↑ Carnival p.39
  30. ↑ Gazetteer IV p.47-48
  31. ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p.122
  32. ↑ Gazetteer IV p.32

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

Ravenloft Third Edition
Domains of Dread
The Evil Eye

Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp7,28-30
Ravenloft Third Edition - pp14,15,17,20,123-124
Domains of Dread - p52
Ravenloft Campaign Setting:Domains and Denizens - pp17-18
The Evil Eye - pp56-59
Realm of Terror - p73

Secrets of the Dread Realms - pp8-9
Ravenloft Third Edition - inside cover
Domains of Dread - p42
Ravenloft Campaign Setting - poster map
Realm of Terror - poster map
The Evil Eye - poster map

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