Duskhaven and Blackthorn Keep

• Stone-paved main square with a modest market area
• A decrepit chapel at the town’s edge, long abandoned
• Blackthorn Keep’s looming silhouette with ironclad gates and battlements
• Dense, shadowed forest surrounding the keep known as Blackthorn Woods

• Town Guard of Duskhaven, nervous and understrength
• Vampires lurking in Blackthorn Keep and its woods, including vampire spawn
• A few desperate or secretive townsfolk rumored to barter with the undead

• A hidden crypt beneath Blackthorn Keep that holds an ancient vampire lord
• A secret tunnel from the town’s abandoned chapel leading under the forest
• A curse woven into the woods that unnerves and disorients intruders

• Ancient family heirlooms hidden within Duskhaven’s chapel
• Silvered weapons and holy water caches kept secret by town guards
• Bloodstained tomes of vampire lore concealed in the keep’s crypts

Duskhaven is a small, tight-knit community reliant on the keep’s presence but wary of its dark reputation. Blackthorn Keep sits perched on a rocky hill surrounded by gnarled woods where vampires prowl after dark, casting a pall of dread over the region. The townsfolk avoid the forest at night, telling tales of vanished hunters and eerie lights.

The town’s uneasy peace shatters when several children vanish overnight, rumored taken by creatures of the keep’s shadowed woods.

The quaint town of Duskhaven lies shadowed beneath the looming Blackthorn Keep. The scent of damp earth mingles with faint iron, and the surrounding woods whisper with unnatural stillness.