Mordent

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Mordent is the setting of the adventure Storm of Souls.

## **Settlements**

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* Mordentshire-by-the-Sea
* Hope's End
* Tumbledown
* Blackburn's Crossing

## **The High Houses of Mordent**

The land of Mordent was settled primarily by ten very wealthy and powerful families. Each of the ten families has had a piece of Mordent to claim at some point in its history. A great many have succumbed to extinction, and those that remain fear it.

### **Blackburn**

* **Creed:** *The water of knowledge sates only those who drink the deepest*
* **Sigil:** Panther
* **Status:** Current lords of Blackburn's Crossing

The Blackburns are one of the younger high houses, but exceptionally wealthy nonetheless. They are the founders and current lords of Blackburn's Crossing, the largest settlement in Mordent.

### **Campbell**

* **Creed:** *Cradled by the waves, guided by the light*
* **Sigil:** Lion
* **Status:** Current lords of Hope's End

The Campbell family has a historical feud with the Wescote family.

### **De Boistribue**

* **Creed:** *The land knows its true master*
* **Sigil:** Fox
* **Status:** Extinct

The De Boistribue family were the founders of Hope's End and said to be the oldest family in Mordent. Before their extinction they were regarded as the protectors of the Forest of the Ancients, east of Mordentshire-by-the-Sea.

### **Godefroy**

* **Creed:** *Those that are strong survive to lead*
* **Sigil:** Gryphon
* **Status:** Extinct

The Godefroys were always wealthy and influential, using their shipping fortunes to form the bedrock for developing Mordentshire-by-the-Sea. The rulership of Mordentshire passed to the Weathermay family when the last of the Godefroys, Lord Wilfred, committed suicide after murdering his wife and daughter. The house on Gryphon Hill has been abandoned every since.

### **Halloway**

* **Creed:** *Only by action does any man succeed*
* **Sigil:** Basilisk
* **Status:** Dwells in the ruins of Steadwall

The Halloway family were the masters of Steadwall, on the Arden River, before it was abandoned. The ferryman, Smythe, charters passengers across the Arden. He often speaks of all the treasures that the family keeps locked in Halloway House, but all who seek it never return.

### **Mournesworth**

* **Creed:** *Death makes all men equal; Life makes all men brothers*
* **Sigil:** Crow
* **Status:** Current lords of Tumbledown

The Mournesworth family are the historical caretakers of the Vale of Twilight, the largest cemetery in Mordent. They are known to be devout followers of the Morninglord.

### **Renier**

* **Creed:** *Approach friends and enemies alike with a smile; they both are equally deserving of it*
* **Sigil:** Rat
* **Status:** Dwells in Blackburn's Crossing

The Reniers originally helped to build Mordentshire-by-the-Sea, but moved away from the town shortly after Blackburn's Crossing was founded.

### **Scottmatter**

* **Creed:** *The work of the hands is the joy of the soul*
* **Sigil:** Owl
* **Status:** Extinct

The Scottmatters were co-founders of Tumbledown, and are now extinct. According to legend, they all fell victim to a fey curse.

### **Weathermay**

* **Creed:** *None would survive but for the efforts of those whom history has forgotten*
* **Sigil:** Unicorn
* **Status:** Current lords of Mordentshire-by-the-Sea

The Weathermay family also helped to establish Mordentshire and was there to take the reigns when the Godefroy family died out. The current lord-governor of Mordentshire is Lord Byron Weathermay. He has sired two daughters: Virgina, who lives with him at Heather House, and Estelle, who died tragically several years ago.

### **Wescote**

* **Creed:** *Those who are righteous receive what they deserve*
* **Sigil:** Wolf
* **Status:** Dwells west of Hope's End

The Wescote family lived in Hope's End for many generations before constructing Wescote Manor southwest down the Mill Road, on the way to Mordentshire-by-the-Sea.