The Domain of Dread is a plane of horrors, dominated by Lord Varnae, an immortal vampiric fiend.
The domain is inhabited by creatures of myth and legend, given flesh by the power of collective faith, and include vampires (like the Lord of the land), werewolves and witches.
The normal people of this reality do not refer to it as the Domain of Dread, of course, to them, this is just Totius Mundi, “the whole world”.
Description
Dread is, on the initial face of it, similar to Earth in the 1850s. Industrialisation has brought mechanical efficiency to the oppression of the workers with poverty and disease common among the working classes. Factories run by steam engines fill the skies with dark smoke, creating a miasma of smog over the cities and staining even raindrops grey.
The upper classes know about the nature of Lord Varnae and take pride in their proximity to his original bloodline, even though it means they are particularly vulnerable to his powers of suggestion.
In the more rural regions, the people are removed from the squalor of the cities but vulnerable to the predations of the monsters who roam the night.
Monsters
None of the monsters who roam the Domain can abide light.