#Diavoras Original City

[black-metal-bard]

Now that I'm actually putting a lot of thought into Lore for the living branch of the Dilisnya family as they appear in my campaign, and the Dilisnya Keep is going to be the Party's home base, I feel like I should actually make A CITY for the Dilisnya family to have been ruling, since they're an ancient family Strahd saw fit to ally with.

Since I've decided that the Dilisnyas in this campaign have a very complicated relationship with Hell and Demonic Study, I've decided to name the city Diavoras(mashing together the Romanian words for Demon and Town; thus, the city Mel inherited is literally called "Demon Town".

Now I have to think of the culture around it.

I feel like it would be thematically appropriate to the town of our extended campaign and Meliora's ~Vibes~ if the town itself had kind of a tourist trap feel; like that town near Area 51 that has all the Alien stuff. Just like, they take the idea of their Count being a fucked up Demonologist and RUN with it.

I think this will provide a nice contrast between Diavoras and the rest of Oorth; since Oorth(the setting) as a whole is very low magic and fearful of demons.

This would also provide a good in-universe explanation for WHY Adora(Meliora's mother) came to work for Dilisnya Keep in the first place--few options for Tieflings to find steady work on Oorth would have made Diavoras an attractive place for a Tiefling to start building a life.

Tieflings are also much less common on Oorth, since magic itself is less common, so there is much less opportunity for blood curses that create tiefling lineages to happen.

Diavoras, as a weird tourist attraction city, will be a lot more welcoming of whatever strange creatures the Party end up being than the rest of Oorth.(there is at least one Half-Drow, and Surface-Oorth somewhat frequently wars with the Lolth-Ruled Drow underground, so that should be fun. Especially since he is also a Dhampir that has firmly sworn his loyalty to Strahd. It's still up in the air if my brother is going to continue playing his Tiefling Dream Druid, the guy who usually DMs is playing a Sorcerer-Shifter who THINKS he's a Cleric, and it's still 100% up in the air what his wife is playing.).

There would also be more people willing to discuss the Hedge-Mage Colleges. Magic may be frowned upon, but that doesn't mean mages of all stripes don't gather to study or learn to harness their abilities.