DRYH: Ashes of Gods - Setting Details

MAJOR NIGHTMARES

The Raven King - Pain 12 (15 when using Voice)

The Raven King is an old Nightmare. And once ruled the Mad City completely before the Red Queen and Mistress When toppled his reign and stole his power. At a distance the Raven King is a mere silhouette of a lanky man in a long coat with a raven's head and eyes that glow a terrible sickly green.

The presence of any of the Awakened too near him reveal his true form, all flesh falling away like shadow leaving a blackened skeleton that is mostly human, with a raven's skull and taloned hands and feet.

The Raven King does not speak directly to anyone. It is said his voice is death to any who hear it [Pain 15]

The Fool is the Raven King's Loyal Lieutenant.

The Blood Queen - Pain 3/6/9/ (by Watch)

The Blood Queen is first and foremost the Nightmare to Nightmares.

In all her incarnations she appears as a bloodsoaked female. In the First Watch [from the first through the fourth hour] she manifests as a little girl [Pain 3]. In the Middle Watch [from the fifth through the eighth hour] she manifests as a stately woman [Pain 6]. In the Last Watch [from the ninth through the twelfth hour] she manifests as a gnarled crone with jagged nails and teeth [Pain 9]. No one even whispers about what she becomes during the Thirteenth Hour or what Pain she brings then.

Special: The Pain Rating of Nightmares who come within sight of the Blood Queen drops two points and remains reduced while in her presence. Only the Raven King and Mistress When, (and perhaps the Keeper) are known to be immune to this effect. Inklings, for whatever reason, add one pain to their rating in her presence and tend to congregate near her unless ordered to do otherwise.

The Jack - different from RK

Mistress When - as per RK

Haggler King - Nightmare of the Bazaar

Cat O' Nine - as per RK except Irisher

The Keeper - as per RKish

The Traveller - Gondolier from RKish

NIGHTMARE LIEUTENANTS

The Fool - as per RKish

Ladies in Hating - per DRYH

Nurse Wretched - missing lower jaw

Hound Master - as per Huntsman RK except lean black man with face painted as skull, top hat, shirtless, black waistcoat w/tails.

Old Scratch

Catspaw - as per RK

The Hartshorn - as per RKish

Techno Babblers - weird radio shack cyborg gangs

MINOR NIGHTMARES

Urchins - Gas Mask Faced kids in wartime period garb, England WW1. Minor Nightmares

Raggle Taggle Hagglers - Nightmare Hagglers as RK

Scampers - as per RK

The Menagerie - as per RK

Black Dogs - Massive black hounds

Willow Women - as per RK

Barnacle Boys - as per RK

Plaguerats - as per RK but rattier, less hominid

Leaping Lepers - as per RK

Hermit - as per RKish

Gibbering Prophet - as per RK

The Rag Girls - Molly Rags of RK

Inklings - as per RKish

DENIZENS

Hagglers - Denizens of the Bizarre Bazaar

Cogs - as per RK

The Eyeless (wax king esque)

The Fallen Legion - as per RK soldiers, gang members, etc

OTHER

Clockwork Insects

Wisps - as per RKish

The Nethsers - places where the Mad City bleeds over into the City Slumbering wholesale

The Bizarre Bazaar - as per DRYH/RK

The Labyrinth - an overlay of confusion when the Mad City is close to the surface of the City Slumbering