Karameikos - Vaults of Pandius

Fort Doom3. Northern District is the secondsmallest district and is for the farmerstending the farms which lay to thenorth of the town.4. Northeast District is a medium-sizeddistrict and is home to Thyatianmerchants as well as Traladaranprisoners working on the giganticBlack Eagle Castle being built to theNortheast of the town.5. Southern District is the second largestand is for the farming familiesworking to the east and south of thetown.The buildings in town are mostly closestanding,single-storied cottages for thefishing and farming families. Buildingsaround the center square have severalstories. Also ,some of the houses in theNortheast district along the road leadingfrom the town center to Luln are multistoried.While Fort Doom is an inland town, thewestern road leads to a harbour area a fewmiles away. Many fishing boats and the greatship "Eisen Flotte" lies here, but few live herepermanently. Guards are stationed to patrolit, but the Traladaran fishermen are forced tolive inside of Fort Doom itself. The harbourhas a pier and several small warehouses, aswell as a large guardhouse. The barracks ofthe 6 th Fähnlein, one of the units of theBaron’s army, are located here as well.Half a mile north of the harbour, a tower isunder construction for the use of theBaron’s magist, Bargle. So far only threeunderground levels and the base level arecompleted. The tower also has its own smallharbour.A couple of miles northeast of Fort Doom,along the road to Luln, Ludwig vonHendriks is building an enormous castle onan artificial hill. Traladaran prisoners workthemselves to death on this immensebuilding project 1 . The Baron has had thecastle designed on a grand scale, to rival thelargest fortifications in the Known World.IMPORTANTCHARACTERS OF THEREALMFreiherr (Baron)Ludwig vonHendriksA first cousin ofDuke StefanKarameikos,Ludwig vonHendriks is halfHattian (throughhis father) andhalf Kerendan, buthe stronglyidentifies as aHattian conservative, to the point that heemploys the traditional Hattian title“Freiherr”, rather than his actual Thyatiantitle of Baron. He hates both his cousins,Stefan Karameikos and Alexius Korrigan, forbeing both more popular and lucky thanhimself in their youth.Ludwig is a pathological liar and apsychopath, who utterly believes he isalways right 2 . He can be very charming1 The end layout will be something like the crusadercastle "Krac de Chevaliers" in modern day Syria.2 A detect lie spell will not work on him, since he is134THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #1