Venine

"Venine the Dark"

"That tainted pit of monsters and madness"

Vampires

**Venine** is a Council-aligned world. It is a home to monsters and vampires of all types, who are known for their conflicts with humans.

## Inhabitants:

#### Humans:

Humans make up the majority of Venine’s species. There are however less humans there than on other worlds, such as Keyvaile and Onixana, due to them being a food source for the world’s more monstrous inhabitants.

#### Vampires:

Vampires are a race of undead beings that descend from human mages who performed the dark ritual that tainted the world. They once ruled over much of the world, before the human nations rebelled a thousand years ago.

#### Besti:

A hybrid race of people who live near the Blightlands. They may have once been humans or perhaps they were of a different race that lived on Venine, before fading out to become the Besti. Despite not actually being evil, their monstrous appearance makes them unwelcome in human lands

There are also a few Aldeans who live on this world, such as the famed Padrana family.

## History:

Venine was once a fairly normal world before several human mages performed a ritual in order to become immortal, for which they performed an unspeakable deed. They became the sires of the Venine vampires and tainted the lands around them. This act released evil things into the world of Venine and started it's dark reputation. The vampire blood families ruled over the mainland of Venine for many years, before the human states rebelled against them one thousand years ago with the help of Aldeans.

Meanwhile, the Pyrana people fell into a deep sickness that transformed them into the Besti, and the survivors fled into wilderness.

The human population slowly rebuilt, building the city of Bervail, the City of Lamps, and the Church of the Holy Light in defiance of the vampires.

They tried, unsuccessfully, to wipe out their former masters with the aid of the Aldean Padrana family, marching many crusades against the dark families and surprisingly managed to wipe out a few.

Every one hundred years, the people of Venine suffer from the Blood Moon, which makes lycanthropes more powerful and twisted and drives those who look directly to madness.

Most of the locals have a great distrust of the arcane after what the Scions did and blame magic for the corruption of their world, necromancy being completely forbidden by most cultures, but pyromancy being the most accepted due to it’s ability to destroy monsters such as the undead.

## Locations:

The Blightlands: A once lush land of forests and plains. It was corrupted by an unspeakable act.

The Padrana Estate: Home to the Padrana family. Built on the edge of the dark and tained woods surrounding the Blightlands, to prevent the creatures from escaping that dark place.

Nervail: Largest human settlement on Venine.

## Famous Characters born on Venine:

Ratimir Nox: Vampire head of the Nox family, former Council scholar who became a vampire to survive and gain power.

Margaret Padrana: Aldean Pureblood and scion of the Padrana Family, member of the Guild of Sorceries.

## Cultural Inspirations:

Venine has a very Victoran era style to it, especially in the accents, technology and clothing of it’s inhabitants.

There may be more native cultures across the sea, but unlike on Earth, the humans of Venine are too busy keeping the monsters out of their lands to go off colonizing.

The creatures of Venine are mostly deeply gothic style monsters, such as vampires, werewolves and other such things, though there are rumors that deep in the Blightlands, more eldritch things dwell.

## Trivia

* Venine was inspired by the settings of Magic: The Gathering’s Innastrad blocks and the game Bloodborne.