The Bon Espoir Cemetery
On the outskirts
of the city, not far from Our Lady and St Vincent's
Church rests the sprawling, overgrown expanse of
vaults and Spanish Moss that is the Bon Espoir Cemetery.
While the cemetery
is still in use today as a burial ground for New
London's dead, much of it has long since fallen
into disuse and is now utterly overgrown. Among
the smooth-worn family name plaques and vaults that
list dangerously on the marsh-softened earth are
entombed nearly thirty members of the Fountaine
family, stretching back over seven generations,
as well as other local historical figures and dignitaries.
Covering over two
square miles, much of the cemetery has not been
visited anyone still among the living in over a
hundred which makes it a perfect haunt for any unliving
that can stomach facing the thick undergrowth that
now covers much of that land. Predominantly, this
area is used by Ghuls, who find it easy to scuttle,
unseen amidst the underbush, encroaching into the
cemetery late at night to remove the freshly dead
from their vaults and take them back below ground
into the Subterrania. It is even thought that the
leader of New London's Ghul colony, Sebastian Fountaine,
makes his cryptorium in the area, among the tombs
of his family, perhaps even beneath the vault in
which he was entombed before he returned to join
the city's Ghuls.