rice, yams, sugarcane, cotton, catfish, crappie, shrimp, crayfish, spirits, salt
Coinage:
gravestone (gp), fingerbone (sp), toothchip (cp)
Sourange is a domain that swarms and slithers with life, a luchs river delta choked with dark bayous. Called Marias d'Sablet by the Souragniens, the wooded swamp that covers most of the domain stretches out like a languid snake. The muggy air is thick with gray fog and buzzing insects. Pale green moss hangs heavy on the cypress trees, where raccoons and opossums clamber. The few folk who dwell in the bayou pole their wooden rafts through the fetid waters, keeping a wary eye out for aligators and more unnatural threats. At night, the swamps come alive with the trilling of frogs, crickets and cicadas. The delta fans northward toward the Sourange's warm, shallow coastline along the Murky Sea.
Most settlements are in the east, where ground is slightly higher and flooding less severe. The domain's villages are cramped and sweltering, the gray stone edifices of their buildings looming over narrow, muddy streets. Balconies and gates of wrought iron adorn the two-storey homes and shops, alongside stone carvings of snakes and dancing skeletons. The plantations of the nobility feature magnificient estates with lustrous white pillars and gloomy willow groves. The high water table prevents traditional burial in Sourange, so the dead are entombed in morbidly beautiful mausoleums. Unrelenting, oppressive heat and humidity mark the domain's weather. The autumn rainy season brings temperatures that are only slightly cooler than the norm.1
Footnotes:
1. Ravenloft third edition, Andrew Cermak, et al, ISBN: 1588460754 (p. 172).
