In the campaign I am running the PCs has just arrived in Borca - trough a suprising turn of events - and now I am coming to grips with its history. In that respect can any of you fill me in on the treaty of the four towers also known as the league of five nations?
Thanks a lot
René
EDIT: The other nations are Dementlieu and Larmodia. (Wikipedia. The "five nations" must be a typo in the gazetteer.)
the member nations of the Treaty of four towers are Richmeulot, Dementlieu, Mordent, Borca, and (formerly) Dorvinia. This is why it was called the league of five nations prior to the grand conjuction. the "four towers" refer not to the countries, but to the ruling families responsible for thier domains entering the treaty. The families are Renier, Guignol, Weathermay, and Dilisnya respectively a piece of trivia briefly mentioned in volume 4 of the doomsday gazzettes.
and yes, that is the same wheathermay family as Laurie and Gennifer, well as Vanrichten's old buddy George, but officially the three of them take no part in politics, despite being the most likely heirs to rule mordent should anything unfortunate happen to Jules weathermay, the current patriarch.
Lamordia (The Falkovnian armies first encounter with fire arms and the harsh
winters of the land. Lasts from 695-696 and in 703 Lamordia and Folkovnia
sign a non-agression pact in exchange for goods), Darkon ( Where Azalin just
raises the bordor of zombies and the fallen Falkovnian soldiers again and
again dubbing the many Dead Man Campains of 70, 704, 711-722), Borca
(Ivana Boritsi just posions the invasion force in 706), Dementlieu (Fire arms
and canons vs. full plate = slaughter in 707 and 724), Richemulot (724), and
Dorvinia (727) in the Ravenloft Gazetteer 3 pages 93-94.
Drakov loves to lose!
Thanks!
edition books, so the name is the first time I've encountered it in my books.
What was Dorvinia? Where was it and what theme was it?
Thanks!
During the GC, Dorvinia (home of Ivan Dilisnya) has melted with Borca (home of his cousin, Ivana) to form one domain with two darklords.
Joël
(The Kargat - the designers of the Ravenloft setting - have said that the main reason they did this was because Dorvinia and Borca were just too similar to warrant keeping them as separate domains. Also, G'Henna was too bleak and infertile to "fit in" climate wise with the rest of the Core, so they removed it and replaced it with the Shadow Rift.)
From what I remember from my 2nd Ed. sourcebook, Dorvinia was basically the same type of place that Borca was. Treachery and poisonings occurred a fair bit.
If you want to recreate it, I'd suggest going with Borca and then adding a major theme of arts and theater. Ivan Dilisnya is a quirky man and fancies himself a great actor, fiddling about with props and costumes. Perhaps a burgeoning theater industry has grown up, entertaining the ruler himself and also the rival houses vying for his attention and favor.
Dorvinia corresponded to the northeastern chunk of Borca, in which Lechberg and Ivan Dilisnya's estate are located. Gaz IV mentions how folks in the Dorvinian part of Borca all disagree with their neighbors in Ivana's former territory, as to precisely when Dorvinia emerged from the Mists.
HuManBeing was thinking of Markovia, not Dorvinia. Markovia moved from the center of the Core to the Sea of Sorrows, in the Great Upheaval, so it would better emulate the novel "The Island of Dr. Moreau", on which it's very strongly based.
