Macabria

Macabria (Макабриа), officially known as the Queendom of Macabria, and Nox Eternis or the Land of Eternal Night, is a northeastern European country known for it's dark skies, Romanianesque medieval towns, gothic-style victorian cities interwoven with churchyard's and necropolises, and it's heavily forested terrain. The island continent is located in the midst of the New Black Sea, also known as the Shadow Fold, which was created when a massive tsunami caused the original Black Sea to expand (on it's eastern side) by over 1,380 mi².

Macabria is a dark, mystical realm located east of Constanța, more than 581 miles off the coast of the Romania with an area of 18,027 mi². It's existence is hidden from the rest of the world by a supernatural veil of thunderstorms, mist and darkness, and the land itself is ringed with a black mountain range and a circular river inbetween. Therein lies the foggy and dusky realm of Nox Eternis, where the days are replaced with near dusk, becoming twilight at around midday before becoming night once again. There are only five moon phases, the harvest moon, a regular full moon, the crescent moon, the waxing gibbous, and the darkmoon. Every 9 nights there is a blood moon and every 3 weeks there is a black supermoon. The terrain consists of heavily wooded territories, much of which is tundra, dark forests, and ominous woods with a pocket of land to the south where it is always autumn.There are also large, gothic cemeteries dotted throughout the entire province. There are also castles on cliffs and hills belonging to separate vampire houses, nests, or covens, each with it's own head, lord, count, or marquis. Within macabria exists multiple pockets of civilization all under a single monarchy. There are cities that strongly resemble London during the Victorian era, there are medieval Romanian villages, Transylvanian style towns, Viking camps, and medieval Byzantine settlements, plus more.

Towards the midland is a huge clearing ringed by trees with burgundy leaves and dull gray bark. Within the clearing is Orașul Morțvie, the capital city of Macabria. It is a large dark gothic city made of dark colored materials and gothic/neo-gothic architecture, medieval and victorian style buildings, Mordor like structures, magickal lanterns, victorian gasslamps, and smoking torches. The city is filled with morbid, claustrophobic, and Burtonesque environments with architecture that is similar to Arkham Asylum, and other dark themes but with a cheery London air about it. Mixed in with the city structures are burial mounds and gothic tombstones, graves, spulchres, and mausoleums all of which constantly generate low, shifting clouds of eerie fog. Underneath it is an underground subway system which is intertwined with a huge necropolis which is inhabited by ghouls and other lesser types of undead. The people, places, and atmosphere are a lot like those from Vampyr, an Action-RPG developed by DontNod. Towards the back of the clearing is a small mountain range  with flat cliffs facing the south end of the capital (the entrance to the city is north) making them possible to access only from behind. On the highest cliff is a dark and enormous castle with looming towers, gothic arches, battlements with budded crosses carved into the stones, stained glass windows that appear to glow red from the outside but appear normal inside and each depicting dark and eery gothique scenes, and a red central rose window decorated with carved skulls. Around the castle is the outer wall which completely surrounds the castle. The wall is 10 feet thick with battlements and four watch towers. Aligned with the front doors of the castle is an entrance with a wicked looking portcullis and a drawbridge. Surrounding the wall is a 6 foot deep and 10 foot wide moat flowing with crimson blood and poison that is venomous to the touch. The moat is lined with thick layers of clay to stop water seepage. The national languages are Victorian English, Old Romanian, Bulgarian, Corsican, and Zhâburi (Black Speech).