Cursed City of Ansburg - Settlement Map - Ruins of the Ancients (Patreon)

Ansburg may have been a great city once, some even called it the jewel of the North, before The Fall that is, before the great shadow swallowed it whole. We Gloom Wardens just call it the Cursed City now, and cursed it is.

It was during the Crusade for the Dawn that Ansburg was condemned. The priests and the king declared it lost, tainted beyond redemption by the very vampire they fought.

The city was to be purged, cleansed in fire and blood and so it was. Such slaughter, such betrayal. It left an indelible scar on the world, and thus came the shadow.  

Even centuries later, the city still festers with the restless dead. The shades of the fallen, haunting the crumbling streets, forever bound to the stones soaked with their blood.

Wraiths and shadows lurk in every corner, watching….waiting for the living to cross their path.

Wait till you hear the screams…gods the screams. They’ll strip a man of his courage and leave him hollow and broken. His very soul, withered to dust.

So mark my words and mark them well. Leave Ansburg to its shadows and its sins. No good can come from walking where the damned hold sway.

- Kaels Fields - First Captain of the Gloom Wardens

Hi all!

Happy release day! Today is our first release for this month’s theme: Ruins of the Ancients and what better way to kick that off than by creating a city so cursed that it has been engulfed by shadow?

I present to you the Cursed City of Ansburg.

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A principal location in our slowing growing campaign setting, the Fallen Kingdom, this city has seen its share of hardship. The site of a great crime that effectively kickstarted the Fall centuries ago. Plunging the realm into ruin and decay.

We have a fair bit of lore for Ansburg and over the next few days I’ll update the Legend Keeper article for it so keep an eye out for that!

If you want to get more involved in helping craft this setting then feel free to join us on Discord

This trailer was a bit of fun and features one of my go to NPC voices :D. My question for you though is this: would you use something like this in your own games? A little teaser trailer perhaps to help set the scene?

Let me know in the comments below as I would happily make more of these in the future if it is useful.

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George - The Reclusive Cartographer

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