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1 - Introduction
 A Lamordia Adventure Module

For Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition

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Based on the Lamordia lore presented in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, pgs. 138-143

Version 1.0.0 - 08/24/2022

For four to six adventurers of levels 1-7

By Alexander Vigna
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Introduction
 Credits
Author & Designer: Alexander Vigna

Feedback & Proofreading: Brian Graff, John Price, Lidia Vigna, Gerard Lambrugo, Collin Keating

Playtest Dungeon Master: Alexander Vigna

Playtest Players: Brian Graff, Gerard Lambrugo, John Price, Lidia Vigna

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Art:
City and Dungeon Maps: Made by Alexander Vigna with Inkarnate Pro
Map of Lamordia: Made by Alexander Vigna with Inkarnate Pro, with geography based on the original
map by Francesca Baerald found in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, and maps in older editions

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Commissioned artwork:
by Stacy Wead - linktr.ee/artofstace
Page 22: The Last Passenger, Page 50: The Au-Wrecker, Page 61: Flying Experiment,
Page 80: Mordenheim Hunter, Page 82: Octo-Man
Cosplayers:
Viktra: Gifted Faker - campsite.bio/giftedfaker
Elise: Megara Hope - campsite.bio/megarahope
Ravenloft Logo: From the Ravenloft Logo Pack by Gordon McAlpin on DM’s Guild
Other Art: Most other images made by Alexander Vigna using original photography and/or stock photog-

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raphy from Pexels and Unsplash composited and modified in Adobe Photoshop. The images on pages 10, 18,
31, 38, 41, 58, & 85 contain AI-generated imagery, all of which have also been modified in Photoshop.
Author’s note: I do sincerely hope that for my next project I will have the funds to hire artists for the entire
thing, but this is my first published work and it just wasn’t in the (nonexistent) budget this time.
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Special Thanks:
My wife, for putting up with this nonsense
Anyone I’ve ever played D&D with
The Spellbook Gaming peeps
Wizards of the Coast
The many good people behind Curse of Strahd and Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Tracy and Laura Hickman, The Creators

Cryo Chamber, for the spooky vibes while writing this book
Nuwan Panditha, and his Painterly Photoshop action
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The additional “lore” I’ve written for Lamordia has been extrapolated based on the original six pages in
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, filled in by my own imagination or the suggestions of friends, or is made
out of the answers to questions players asked during the playtest game. Given the extensive changes to
Lamordia’s lore, I felt it best to treat all previous lore from older editions as no longer canon, and thus
the information in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is the only thing I considered to be canon when writ-
ing this. My additions, changes, interpretations, and ommisions should not be taken seriously as official
Dungeons & Dragons canon until the extremely unlikely event that Wizards of the Coast decides to give
it their blessing. Compared to the official one, the map of Lamordia on page 11 has some discrepancies in
the shape and scale of the land, as well as added and removed locations, and exists for the sole purpose of
providing a better sense of scale with a hex grid. It should similarly not be taken as canon. As with any-
thing in a TTRPG, you are free to change, add, or remove things to suit your tastes.

3 - Credits
Introduction
 Contents
Foreward .............................................................................. 5
Introduction ......................................................................... 6
Story Overview .................................................................... 6
Preparing the Adventurers .............................................. 6
Getting to Lamordia .......................................................... 7
Character Levels ................................................................. 8
The Author’s Two Cents .................................................... 8
Lamordia .............................................................................. 9
Culture ................................................................................... 9
History ................................................................................. 10
Notable Locations ............................................................. 11
Random Encounters ......................................................... 13
Weather ............................................................................... 16
Goods and Services .......................................................... 17
Long Distance Travel ........................................................ 18
Non-human Foreigners .................................................. 18
Chapter 1: The Ghost Train ............................................. 19
About Cyre 1313 ................................................................ 19
Cyre 1313’s Cars ................................................................. 20
Chapter 2: Doctor’s Orders ............................................. 23
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The City of Neufurchtenburg ......................................... 23
Awakening ......................................................................... 26
Mine 07 ................................................................................ 27
Bad Medicine ..................................................................... 30
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Chapter 3: Journey to the Northeast ............................. 32
Damsel in Distress ............................................................. 32
The Town of Whale End ................................................... 34
Chapter 4: Academic Endeavors ................................... 36
The City of Ludendorf ...................................................... 36
Get a Job ............................................................................... 39
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Example Student Quests ................................................. 40
Chapter 5: Rebellion ......................................................... 42
Extra Credit ........................................................................ 42
Phase 1: Preparation ........................................................ 43
Phase 2: Infiltration ........................................................... 43
Areas of Schloss Aubrecker ............................................ 44
Phase 3: “Rescue” ............................................................... 49
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Chapter 6: The Heart of the Issue .................................. 51
Betrayed! ............................................................................. 51
Going Hunting ................................................................... 52
The Screaming Caves ....................................................... 52
Hope’s Heart ....................................................................... 55
Chapter 7: Paying the Price ............................................. 58
The Docks & Cliffs .............................................................. 58
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Introduction
Inside Schloss Mordenheim ........................................... 62
Escape! ................................................................................. 68
Optional Side Quests ....................................................... 69
Sewer Rats .......................................................................... 69
Horde Defense ................................................................... 69
Mine 99 ................................................................................ 69
Schloss Cutter .................................................................... 70
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Hunting the Hunters ....................................................... 70
Winter’s Mouth ................................................................. 70
Epilogue .............................................................................. 71
Viktra Prevails .................................................................. 71
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Viktra Dies ......................................................................... 71
Other Aftermaths .............................................................. 71
Appendix A: Firearms ..................................................... 72
Appendix B: Features ...................................................... 73
Appendix C: Monsters and NPCs ................................. 74
The Au-Wrecker ............................................................... 74
Baron Rudolph Von Aubrecker .................................... 74
Baron Von Aubrecker’s Secret Police ........................... 75
City Constables ................................................................. 75
City Defenders .................................................................. 76
Elise ...................................................................................... 76
Explosive Cadaver ............................................................ 78
Flying Experiments .......................................................... 78
The Leviathan of Agony .................................................. 79
Mine 07 Roper .................................................................... 80
Mordenheim Hunters ...................................................... 80
Mummified Druid ............................................................ 81
Octo-man ........................................................................... 82
Viktra Mordenheim ......................................................... 82
Appendix D: Optional Rule: Lamordian Elixirs ...... 84
Appendix E: Items ............................................................ 85
Appendix F: Handouts .................................................... 86
Appendix G: Lamordian Ships ...................................... 89
 Foreword: Once More into the Mists
ello, and thanks for taking the
time to read this campaign! I
first ran Curse of Strahd for two
groups of friends back in 2018,
and we all fell in love with the
setting and themes. We’d played
a few mostly incomplete, messy
campaigns before that, but
Ravenloft is what taught me how
to commit to a quality campaign from start to finish.
I’d been dying to return to Ravenloft in a game ever
since, but never felt like going through the work of
converting an old 2e or 3e module, or scouring the
internet for obscure lore. When Van Richten’s Guide
to Ravenloft came out in May of 2021, I knew I had
to run a game using it.
Among the many domains available, Lamordia
stuck out to me as a big fan of the original Franken-
stein. I understand that Lamordia’s lore has received
significant retcons in 5th edition, and I understand
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no one likes retcons, but if you just think of this as
an original story then I think you can see the beau-
ty in this unique take on the classic tale. I started
planning this campaign just to run for my friends,
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but quickly realized I was going into way more
detail than I would normally for a casual homebrew
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game outline. I figured it’d be worth expanding on it
to a point that I could share it with people, and from
there it snowballed into this much larger project. I
knew this was getting too big to keep to myself when
the document I was planning it in passed 60 pages
before I even ran the second session.
I have taken some creative liberties with the lore,
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which seemed necessary as there were original-
ly only six pages of it in one book. Between what
I’ve come up with here and the existing lore in Van
Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, you should have just
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about everything you need to have a clear picture
of Lamordia. Worldbuilding and coming up with
homebrew monsters, items, spells, and abilities has
been a pastime of mine since I started playing this
game over six years ago, and this book feels like a
culmination of all that practice. I know I’m not a
venerable 30+ year 1st edition veteran (heck, I ha-
ven’t even been alive for 30 years), but I hope what
I’ve built here is enjoyable to you and your players
nonetheless.
Please enjoy,
Alexander Vigna
5 - Foreward
Introduction
 Introduction
irst and foremost, you as the Dun-
geon Master of this campaign should
familiarize yourself with the sections
of Van Richten’s Guide to Raven-
loft that are relevant to Lamordian
adventures. Most important are the
sections on Lamordia itself on pages
138-143, as well as Body Horror on
pages 46-47 and Gothic Horror on
pages 56-57. For obvious reasons the
writings in this document assume you have access
to and have read these passages, and the adventure
will make little sense without the context that they
provide. Again, I have taken some creative liberties
with the lore for the sake of creating a single coher-
ent campaign. Consider also reading Mary Shelly’s
original Frankenstien if you haven’t already, so that
you can appreciate the heavy inspiration it’s had on
this setting.
When a monster or an NPC has a stat block from
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the Monster Manual you need to reference, it will be
indicated by bold text. An asterisk* indicates those
stats can be found in Appendix C of this book, and
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to Ravenloft. You can also choose to spice things
up with monsters from Volo’s Guide to Monsters,
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, or another supple-
ment from DM’s Guild if you own those, but they
aren’t necessary. The rules and stat blocks for boats
are based on the rules presented by Ghosts of Salt-
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marsh, and additions to them specific to Lamordia
are described in Appendix G.
STORY OVERVIEW
Adventurers from another world stumble into Lam-
ordia, an industrious land surrounded by mysteri-
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ous fog, plagued by winter weather, and ruled by
a selfish and reclusive baron. These strangers find
themselves in the care of a seemingly kind doctor,
only to eventually discover that in Lamordia flesh
is worth more than life. With blood on their hands,
they must flee to the nation’s largest city across a
marshland full of feral animals and a sea rife with
mutated monsters. Once in the city they can sus-
tain themselves by taking on mercenary work from
the students of a university that idolizes a woman
named Doctor Viktra Mordenheim. Events take an
even deadlier turn when a friendly retired professor
asks them to do her a favor: save her dear wife from
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the dungeons of the wicked baron. A betrayal and
another brush with death sets the party on a quest
to seek revenge upon the realm’s true dark lord…
PREPARING THE ADVENTURERS
There are several things to take into consideration
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when preparing your players to run this adventure,
and Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft has some
good guidelines on setting expectations with your
players when preparing to run a horror-themed
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game. Lamordia is a rather low-magic setting, so it’s
good to make sure you set your players’ expectations
properly for that (things like spell scrolls and magic
items won’t be common, for example).
Another important factor is how much informa-
tion about the campaign you plan on sharing with
your players. This is a matter of personal preference,
but this game benefits from allowing your players to
remain mostly in the dark about the world they’re
about to enter. Telling people about a character
named Viktra Mordenheim in a land where people
perform experiments on human bodies might im-
mediately give away the similarities to Frankenstein.
Ravenloft is a campaign setting steeped in fear, and
in the human subconscious fear of the unknown is
perhaps the greatest fear. In addition to all of the
above, it is recommended that you provide your
players with some version of the following text to
prepare them for character creation:
Ravenloft is a loose collection of planes (small
worlds) ranging in size from buildings, to cities,
to whole countries, that are all dark and gloomy
in nature. They typically exhibit tropes of gothic
horror, but sometimes dip into other genres such
as dark fantasy, slasher horror, cosmic horror,
and folk horror. A magical pale mist controlled
by unseen masters separates the domains of
Ravenloft, and occasionally pulls in outsiders.
The most famous domain is Barovia, the home
of the great vampire Count Strahd Von Zarovich
and the setting of the campaign book Curse of
Strahd, which is based heavily on tales of a cer-
tain Transylvanian count. This game will see your
characters thrust into a different one of these
domains, which you will not learn about until
you have arrived there to enhance the mystery of
the quest.
 This game will begin at level 1 and end around
level 6-8, since things tend to be even scarier
when you only have a few hit points and limit-
ed magical superpowers. Ravenloft is at its best
when the characters have to overcome their fears,
so consider what frightens your character when
writing them. The existence of Ravenloft is not
known to most people from outside of it (includ-
ing your characters) but all worlds of the Dun-
geons and Dragons multiverse have folk tales
and urban myths about people going missing in
dense fog, never to return.
The land you will travel to will be isolated,
culturally alien, and illogical at times, but it will
still fit loosely within the bounds of D&D’s usu-
al late-medieval fantasy motifs. Be prepared
for twists and turns, betrayals, loss, and frights
galore. The world around you is as much your
enemy as the twisted creatures, depraved citi-
zens, and despotic rulers. Do not despair though,
it’s still a D&D campaign, and you’re still going to
be the triumphant heroes… probably…
GETTING TO LAMORDIA e
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to get from whatever world they’re from (Faerun,
Eberron, etc.) into Lamordia. This is rarely some-
thing one does on purpose, considering most people
don’t even know it exists, and even if they did they
probably wouldn’t want to go there anyway. For this,
this book proposes using the “ghost train” introduc-
tion, which is described further in Chapter 1. The
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ghost train is actually the small domain of dread
known as Cyre 1313, which is briefly described on
page 168 of Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, and
elaborated upon further in this book. There are sev-
eral ways to get the PCs onto the train and into the
game, but whatever you choose be sure to include
the mists of Ravenloft in your description.
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Urban Myth. If your players’ world of origin is ad-
vanced enough to have a train system then tell them
about an urban legend known as the Ghost Train.
Supposedly, on moonless, foggy nights a glowing
green train appears and disappears through clouds
of mist. No one knows where it comes from or heads
to, but the shriek of its whistle sounds eerily like
a humanoid’s scream. One way or another your
players’ characters have become intrigued by this
urban myth, and they want to board it. One night
when they’re out walking along an isolated stretch
of track, they get what they wished for.
Mystery Door. In a world without trains there are
still likely to be countless magical mysteries. One
foggy evening while venturing between cities looking
for work, your players discover a strange metal slid-
ing door standing alone, not attached to any visible
structure. Curiosity gets the better of them, and they
open it and step inside, finding themselves inside
Car 5 of Cyre 1313.
Screaming in the Mines. This option is similar to
the Urban Myth opening, except that it moves the
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location of the train tracks to a deep mine, allow-
ing this hook to work in worlds that don’t yet have
trains. Your players could be in the mines to investi-
gate the reports of unexplained “screaming” in one
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of the abandoned tunnels. Inside the foggy tunnel
they’ll find “large minecart rails”, and eventually
the ghost train will appear and open up for them.
Again, curiosity gets the better of them, and they
step inside.
The common theme between all of these options
is unbridled curiosity having unforeseen, potentially
deadly consequences, which is a common problem
in Lamordia.
If you’d like to have your game skip the ghost
train dungeon altogether, then you can have the
players begin as 2nd level characters. In this case
they can end up in Lamordia by being sent on a
hunt for some sort of dangerous creature amid a
misty woodland (werewolves work well for this). The
creatures will overwhelm the party and they’ll lose
consciousness, waking up in Dr. Leischer’s lab at the
start of Chapter 2. The ghost train can also be pulled
from the context of this book and used as either a
standalone one-shot (great for Halloween), or as a
means of entry into another Ravenloft campaign of
your own design.
The Von Aubrecker Family Crest
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 CHARACTER LEVELS
This is an adventure that benefits from using mile-
stone leveling over using the experience system. If
you are following the book’s structure verbatim then
the players’ levels should correspond to the num-
ber of each chapter, being 1st level when they first
step onto the train and 7th level when they head
to Schloss Mordenheim. You could use experience
points, but just be mindful that you’re adjusting the
challenge and frequency of encounters to compen-
sate for any over or under leveled characters.
This adventure assumes a relatively linear struc-
ture, but if you wish to use Lamordia as a setting
for a sandbox type of game, then there is ample
information in this book and Van Richten’s Guide to
Ravenloft to do so. You’ll have to fill in some of the
gaps yourself, but it’s certainly doable. I would rec-
ommend doing this for levels 1 through 4, and then
once the party has made more of a name for them-
selves and reached 5th level you can lure them to
Ludendorf to introduce them to the events of Chap-
ter 5 of this book and bring the story back into focus.
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Cyre 1313 can appear anywhere
that tracks can be found.
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THE AUTHOR’S TWO CENTS
I’ll try to avoid injecting my opinions into this book,
but please let me offer a small bit of advice. Being
a player in a tabletop RPG that is all horror, all
the time can become a little exhausting. There’s a
few ways to mitigate this as a DM if you’re worried
about this happening to your players. First, you
should vary the type of horror that you deal with.
This adventure deals heavily in body horror, but
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mixes it up with gothic horror, dashes of survival
and cosmic horror, and even an optional ghost story
(and the horrors of capitalism). The second tip is to
allow the jokes at the table to be plentiful. Don’t feel
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like you need to be the fun police just because the
game world is dark. Let people slip in and out of
character and enjoy dumb jokes so they don’t have
to live in the despair that their characters might be
enduring. All work and no play makes D&D a dull
game.
 Lamordia, the Land of Flesh and Blood
ithin this pocket amid Raven-
loft’s mists, the country known
as Lamordia is composed
of a wet marshland wedged
between a harsh mountain
range and a monster-infest-
ed sea. Its winters are harsh
and long, and its summers
are mild and brief. The locals
refer to the mountains as the Sleeping Beast, and the
single body of water that occupies the north is called
the Sea of Secrets. The mountains and the sea are
both extremely deadly places, but are often risked
for the sake of their resources. The marshland in
between is mostly untamed wilderness dominated
by mutated animals, and is made difficult to settle
thanks to frequent floods and snowstorms.
Farming isn’t viable on the soil, but in the cities of
Ludendorf, Whale End, and Neufurchtenburg many
people keep small fruit and vegetable gardens.
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Travel between towns is done almost exclusively by
boat. Islands dot the seas, but these are even less
hospitable than any place on the mainland, and can
barely even be considered part of the same nation.
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In terms of wildlife, Lamordia is home to most
animals common in marshes and forests, though
many of them are mutated by unknown energies
and are more feral as a result. They often bear mul-
tiple eyes and vestigial extra limbs and appendag-
es. Even typically docile creatures such as deer are
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regarded with similar caution to bears and wolves.
Giant versions of normal animals that are common
in D&D settings can be found here as well, though
they are the results of mutation rather than wood-
land magic. The rivers and seas are teeming with
fish, and massive whales are a common sight in the
northern region of the Sea of Secrets. Like the land
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animals, the whales are considered monsters to be
hunted, both for the safety of the people and for
their necessary meat and valuable oil.
CULTURE
Culturally, Lamordia is loosely based on early in-
dustrial-era Germany (and central/eastern Europe
in general). Names for people and places are heavily
based on real names with Germanic roots. People
typically take the surname of their father, but mar-
riages are legal regardless of gender, and in cases
where a child has been adopted by a nontraditional
family they are usually named after whichever par-
ent comes from a wealthier family.
The biggest cultural difference between mid 19th
century Europe and Lamordia is the complete lack
of any religion. Lamordians are vaguely aware of
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the concept of what a religion is, but none can recall
one ever being popular in living memory. Most re-
sign themselves to a stoic agnosticism, not even con-
sidering the question of consciousness after death.
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Fitting, as most denizens of Ravenloft don’t have
souls to get into an afterlife anyway.
Officially speaking, Lamordia is ruled by a hered-
itary barony. The current baron is the reclusive Ru-
dolph Von Aubrecker, and as far as anyone is aware
he has no spouse or children. The baron does not
concern himself with most goings on in Lamordia,
and directs his not-so-secret Secret Police to collect
exorbitant taxes and harshly punish anyone who
commits crimes against the wealthy, no matter how
petty. Actual day-to-day matters of governance are
handled by town mayors, who collect more modest
taxes to fund their force of constables and municipal
projects like walls and roads. Most wealthy folks are
above the law as long as their crimes aren’t com-
pletely public, and few are willing to stick their neck
out to challenge this status quo.
The aesthetic of Lamordia is as if an industrial
revolution popped up in your average late-medie-
val D&D world overnight, completely skipping the
renaissance and colonial eras. Poorer people still live
in homes made of wood or clay bricks with thatched
roofs, right across the street from factories made of
red bricks spewing black smoke. The exception is
Ludendorf, where most single family homes have
long been replaced by towering apartments.
The old “town guards” have been replaced by
“city constables’’, who still wear traditional leather
or chainmail armor, but carry clubs and revolvers in
lieu of spears or swords. Firearms have become very
commonplace in Lamordia, as people value any tool
that keeps them safer from the beasts that roam the
wilds, but bows do still see use by some hunters who
prefer their silence.
Appendix A of this book provides rules for fire-
arms, or you may use another system if you prefer it.
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 Sailors use steam engines to power their boats
and other heavy machinery, but their primary heat
source is whale oil that is expensive and difficult
to harvest. The advantage is that a single gallon of
Lamordian whale oil burns for about as long as 300
pounds of coal, and every pound counts on a boat
trying to outrun pirates or sea monsters. Due to
the difficulty of farming on the unstable soil of the
marsh, whale meat is a necessary part of the Lam-
oridan diet. Neighborhoods near docks are home
to aircraft-hangar-sized slaughterhouses for the
processing of whale carcasses. Their factories on
land largely run on cheaper coal power, and they
primarily use them to produce textiles, firearms, and
sheet metal. Fashion is generally considered an af-
terthought, even for the wealthy. Clothes are simple
and utilitarian, and the preferred color is black for
its stain-resistance as well as its heat absorption.
In Lamordia a person’s body is regarded as no
more special than a collection of meat, bones, and
organs that they just so happen to own. Cemeter-
ies are nonexistent, as most people sign away their
corpse via a “flesh-rights contract“ to either a local
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scientist, Ludendorf University, or a representative
of the baron. Flesh-rights brokers accept payments
from people seeking fresh bodies, and in turn peo-
ple sign away those rights for a sum of gold, usually
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well over a year’s salary for commoners. A benefac-
tor of their choosing then receives a second sum of
gold when they pass away and their body is handed
over to the agency. Refusing to turn in a body that is
owed or attempting to commit fraud by signing one
body to multiple contracts are crimes punishable by
severe fines. This outlandish practice seems normal
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to the Lamordians, who are an exceedingly logical
people who have little value for emotion, selfless-
ness, posterity, or nostalgia when making decisions.
All these blatant humanoid-rights violations are
done in the name of survival against the harsh land-
scape. Survival of the fittest is a prevalent philoso-
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phy among Lamordians thanks to the tough world
they live in. Greed is of course a massive motivation
as well, but few would openly admit that. Lamor-
dians claim that their unethical experiments and
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lack of respect for their fellow man can be justified
by their pursuit of advancement. They believe that
the ends do justify the means, no matter how horrid
the means might be. They consider the calculus of
human life on the scale of centuries, believing that
the suffering of thousands now is worth it if it im-
proves the human condition for the billions that will
follow in the future. The irony of course is that the
Dark Powers prevent any meaningful improvement
from occurring by subtly sabotaging experiments, so
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all the suffering of the Lamordian test subjects is for
naught.
“HISTORY”
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Lamordia’s history is difficult to explain because
time does not function the same way here. Tech-
nically speaking, the entire place didn’t exist at all
until Viktra and Elise were pulled into the mists
about 50 years ago. Despite this, Lamordians claim
that the current year is 1790, and that they have a
long and storied history. However, no new year’s cel-
ebration ever happens no matter how many winters
come and go.
Lamordia’s entire history and timeline was fabri-
cated when the Dark Powers created it. Any hu-
manoid older than 50 years or ancient creatures
such as ghosts and undead druids would all claim
to have memories from before that point, but these
are all fake and often lacking in detail. Part of Vik-
tra’s torment is that no more technological advance-
ment can occur in Lamordia, so the nation remains
trapped in a paradoxical state where time seems to
move forward, but some things are always resetting
when no one is looking. Original experiments and
new technologies always fail or only work once.
No one from Lamordia is capable of comprehend-
ing this, not even Viktra (who can’t notice that she is
perpetually 28 years old), and people try to change
the subject if pressed about paradoxes. Visitors will
only begin to notice these issues if their stay in Lam-
ordia is very lengthy, or if they discover something
that specifically displays this strangeness.
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Notable Locations
A. LUDENDORF E. SCHLOSS MORDENHEIM
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Chapter 4 describes Lamordia’s largest city and the Chapter 7 explores the darklord’s abode and the
unethical university that shares its name. many dangers that await visitors there.

B. NEUFURCHTENBURG F. THE SCREAMING CAVES

Chapter 2 details this mountain city and the mines
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The northeastern archipelago is referred to as the

that provide much of Lamordia’s material wealth. Isles of Agony, and these windy caves are one of the
only ways to scale their sheer cliffs. Chapter 6 delves
C. WHALE END into this strange formation of vertical tunnels.

Chapter 3 talks about this busy port town that

serves as Neufurchtenburg’s gateway to the sea.
D. SCHLOSS AUBRECKER
Chapter 5 describes this fortress that is home to
Baron Rudolph Von Aubrecker and his secret police.
G. HOPE’S HEART
Chapter 6 also details this run-down old house,
which is perhaps the only hospitable place in the
Isles of Agony.

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 H. ABANDONED ESTATE
Amid the marshland to the east of Whale End is an
old half-collapsed abandoned manor. Players are
somewhat likely to come through this area during
Chapter 3. The first time your players arrive here
they should be caught off guard by a sudden bliz-
zard. If they decide to take shelter within the manor
they’ll have to contend with the small pack of rust
monsters that have made a home in the basement
K. WINTER’S MOUTH
Nestled in the perpetually frozen southeast corner
of the Sea of Secrets is a 100-foot-wide pit in the ice
sheet that descends to unfathomable dark depths.
Sailors say that the pit “whispers the sea’s secrets”,
but no one really know what that means. People
desperate for knowledge occasionally attempt the
journey to the pit, but most don’t return. This story
is expanded upon in one of the optional side quests

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level, feeding on the old suits of plate armor once later in this book.
donned by the long-dead family of knights. They’ll
emerge from the basement when they get a whiff of
the party’s many steel possessions. L. LAMORDIAN WILDS

I. THE OLD TOWERS
This roughly three square mile section of the marsh-
es was once an entire city known as Sumpfburg, but
well over a century ago vicious floods and mudslides
buried it. These days people just refer to the region
as the Old Towers, since the only visible remnants
of the town are the very tops of towers and hints of
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The majority of the landscape is dominated by
muddy river deltas with occasional patches of forest.
As described previously, the mutated monsters and
poor soil prevent people from settling here.
M. SLEEPING BEAST MOUNTAINS
The mountain range that forms Lamordia’s southern
border is home to some of the greatest raw material

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roofs poking through the mire. The city has been
fully reclaimed by nature, and is now home to vari-
ous overgrown and mutated animals that are likely
to accost the players if they attempt to pass through.
riches in all of Ravenloft, and some of its most hor-
rid creatures. The animals that live here are more
mutated than those on the marsh, and in the south-
ernmost, fog-clouded reaches unspeakable horrors†
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The few Lamordians prone to magical superstitions stalk those who dig too greedily and too deep. A
like to blame Sumpfburg’s fate on the ancient druids mine in this region is expanded upon in one of the
who once populated the land, and some trap that optional side quests later in this book.
they set in motion eons ago.

J. SCHLOSS CUTTER
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The Von Cutter family were the rulers of Lamordia

in a forgotten age before the Von Aubreckers took
over. No one is really sure what happened to Volker
Von Cutter, the last of their line, but the story goes
that one day a ship arrived at his castle for routine
business only to find that it appeared to have
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exploded. Volker’s ghost now haunts the basement

level of the castle, and he is on a very small list of
supernatural stories that a considerable number of
Lamordians won’t immediately dismiss. This story
is expanded upon in one of the optional side quests
later in this book.

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 RANDOM ENCOUNTERS
Random encounters are a topic of some debate in
D&D, so if you find them unappealing or difficult to
manage, simply use the encounters described here
as templates for pre-planned wilderness encounters
rather than truly random ones. The cities are rela-
tively safe, but you may wish to inject some danger
with encounters with bandits, or Baron Von Au-
brecker’s Secret Police*.

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Whenever your party is outside of a city, roll for
random encounters at the following rate: Check for a
random encounter by rolling a d20 every 30 minutes
that the adventurers spend outside of a town (but

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not if they’ve already had two random encounters in
the past 12 hours).

• If the party is within 1 mile of a settlement, an

encounter occurs on a roll of 18 or higher.
• If the party is deeper in the wilderness, encoun-
ters occur on rolls of 15 or higher.

If an encounter occurs, roll on the land or sea en-

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counter tables depending on the characters’ current
location. For the land table, most of Lamordia will
have you roll 1d12 + 1d4, but if the players are in
the Sleeping Beast Mountains swap the d4 for a d8
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to access the higher-numbered encounters. The sea
encounters table does not differ by region, and most
of them assume your players are currently on a boat.
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A Lamordian buck stalks the

marsh for its next meal, which
could be just about anything.
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