Editing Dark Cults of Doskvol

=Campaign Overview=

Doskvol has many rogues, sharpers, cutpurses, chicaners... but there are some who serve a higher purpose. Some have been touched by the Divine. Some follow a calling, out of blind faith or the actual revelation of a God. Their hands may be stained, their methods devious, their minds unbalanced, but their hearts are pure... in the service of a Higher One.

The Forgotten Gods of Doskvol may have been forgotten by most of its citizens, but they have not forgotten the world. They move dark and enigmatic, with plans and intentions far beyond the scope of puny human minds. Is their touch a blessing or a curse? Perhaps only time will tell... when some great revelation or catastrophe shakes the heavens in their spheres once more.

==The Cult of the Eightfold Moon==

The moon is another ancient deity lost in the Cataclysm - in fact, that disaster has shattered her into eight pieces.

Phases of the Moon:

1. new Moon - serene and sinister / enigmatic and incomprehensible, the most withdrawn and cryptic phase

2. waxing crescent Moon - alluring (who doesn't love a perfect crescent?) and monstrous / cruel child, the id-driven capricious infant

3. first quarter Moon - ferocious and radiant (she's waking up to new) / yup, the belle dame sans merci, stunning young heartbreaker

4. waxing gibbous Moon - transcendent (about to shift phase) and cruel / aspirant schemer, selfish plotter

5. full Moon - radiant and ferocious 

6. waning gibbous Moon - sinister and alluring (gibbous moons are kind of creepy) / jealous, spiteful and melancholy fading beauty

7. last quarter Moon - cruel and serene / dark old crone

8. waning crescent Moon - monstrous and transcendent (she's about to go quiet and she's pissed about it) / seline, disintegrating


==Lair==

An antiques shop exclusively selling all sorts of standing, wall-mounted, and hand-held mirrors, at the Abyss on the outer fringe of Six Towers. There's all manner of old castoffs from the abandoned manses and estate sales of the delapidated district of Duskvol's first noble families.

=Helpful Resources=

*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/blades-in-the-dark-dark-cults-of-doskvol.891335/ In Character Thread]
*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/blades-in-the-dark-dark-cults-of-doskvol.891336/ Out of Character Thread]
*[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/recruitment-planning-blades-in-the-dark-dark-cults-of-doskvol.890833/ Recruitment Thread]
*[https://bladesinthedark.com/ Blades in the Dark reference site and SRD]
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKeNPQbvd9nqV234R_-ixshzBqXNCNDmygxBILJMMns/edit?usp=sharing/ Online character and Crew playbook sheets - Excel]
*[https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Blades_in_the_Dark_Character_Sheet Blank Blades in the Dark Character Sheet for Wiki]

=Characters=
Hands of the Shattered Moon - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKeNPQbvd9nqV234R_-ixshzBqXNCNDmygxBILJMMns/edit#gid=1392129712 Crew sheet]

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|[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DA11--yQUPpHXrwKNBzaMeDiKibeQCb-HqVKc1G_PII/edit#gid=120738837 Nathaniel Tyde]
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|[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?members/random-task.16902/ Random Task]
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=Important Places and Groupings=

'''Please note''': Your Doskvol may differ.

==Doskvol==

[[File:Doskvol.jpg]]

[https://www.worldanvil.com/uploads/maps/25d45017b0d438e46b61fab1d9f999ce.jpg Detailed map of Six Towers]

==Six Towers==

This formerly prestigious district has faded over the centuries into a pale shadow of what it once was. The eponymous six towers were originally the grand residences of Doskvol’s first noble families. All but two (Bowmore House and Rowan House) have been sold off and converted into cheap apartments or fallen into ruin and abandoned. The district has an empty, haunted feel, with many sprawling old buildings dark without power, broad stone streets cracked and buckled, and the fires of squatters crackling from overgrown lots. A more detailed map is [https://www.worldanvil.com/uploads/maps/25d45017b0d438e46b61fab1d9f999ce.jpg here].

* Scene: Bits of trash, blown by a cold wind, skitter across empty streets, illuminated only by a few still-working street lamps and the campfires of squatters. The shutters and doors of abandoned buildings moan, creak, and bang in a haunted chorus. Residents hustle by, heads down, clutching spiritbane charms close to their breasts.
* Streets: Broad stone avenues, cracked and broken, dark without power; overgrown and neglected. Comber Way, Bowmore Way, Rowan Way, Coleburn Avenue.
* Buildings: Palatial estates, tumbled into disrepair. Grand manors, remodeled into cramped and cheap apartments.

==Nightmarket==

Nightmarket is a district dominated by commerce. Situated near Gaddoc Rail Station, Nightmarket receives the bulk of salable goods from the cargo trains that travel across the Imperium, bringing the exotic and rare to Duskwall. The citizens that call Nightmarket home constitute a new class of “elites” — wealthy people who are not of noble descent but nevertheless claim land, status, and power without titles. The district has been taken over by new construction, introducing lavish private townhouses with all of the modern advances for the elites that can afford them.

==SciNet==

A dispersed community of scientists and investigators into the unnatural and the invading AI; motives vary but in general they are intent on finding out what they can about it, trying to communicate with the AI, and coexisting with it and the unnatural. They are ostensibly independent of any established “official” groups. Membership by invitation, communication is pseudonymous, though in rare cases members do meet in person. No guarantees that they have not been hacked/infiltrated, or that individual members may not have ulterior motives. Provides access to a pool of knowledge/resource on the unnatural and the AI, and potential contacts/information on areas where contacts are based.

=Important People=

*Mother Narya. Runs the Arms of the Weeping Lady charity house. (Kind, Patient)
*Chef Roselle. One of the best cooks in the city, still operating the legendary Golden Plum restaurant—worth the trip into the haunted streets of Six Towers. (Creative, Insightful, Friendly)
*Flint. A spirit trafficker who trades out of a condemned manor house. (Weird, Calculating, Suspicious)
*Bennet the Astronomer. A crabbed, squinting academic at Charterhall University, and the source of some interesting opportunities for the cult. (Weird, Insightful, Friendly)
*The Masked Lady. A high-class patroness who may or may not be one of the Seven who lead the Circle of Flame. (Weird, Calculating, Mysterious)

=House Rules and Quirks=


'''Places of Power vs Hunting Grounds'''

Places of Power don't have to be close together like Hunting Grounds, but they do have to be immediately relevant to the cult and its goals. For instance, an abandoned shrine to the goddess is of course a Place of Power; a well or a spring that could be consecrated to her also might be; a chapel of the Spirit of Deepest Blackness Eternal and Unillumined might also be if you're going to desecrate it or repurpose it for lunar worship. For such targets, you get the mechanical advantages for Hunting Grounds listed on p.95 of the Core Rules - +1d to any gather information rolls and a free additional downtime activity to contribute to the operation. You can acquire Places of Power as your Turf, as well as acquiring the more specific Cult targets listed on the Cult writeup. Naturally, the more Places of Power you claim, the more powerful and influential the cult grows.