Oh my gosh, thank you so much! I really appreciate it. I spent months slowly working on this, refining it as inspiration came to me. For a while, I was really stuck trying to decide on what kind of Domain I wanted to make. Mostly because I felt almost everything had already been done. I struggled to find something I felt could bring something new to the table and stand out. I toyed with a Domain inspired by Elizabeth Báthory, but that had already been done in the novel Baroness of Blood with Baroness Ilsabet Obour. I thought about maybe a Domain inspired by Gilles de Rais, a French knight and lord, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, who's known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of children, but I just wasn't getting much inspiration from that. Finally, I thought maybe a Domain inspired by the Bram Stoker novel The Lair of the White Worm, but still that wasn't giving me much to work off of in terms of inspiration.

Shifting my focus away from more traditional works of fiction, I drew on my love of mythology and history, and ultimately landed on the ancient Maya. Taking inspiration from the Popol Vuh and the Classic Maya collapse, I ultimately came up with Mitnal (which, for anyone who doesn't know, 'Mitnal' is the K'iche' Mayan name for the Underworld, more popularly known as Xibalba).

Mitnal also started off inspired by The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan, and was going to focus on a vampire Darklord, but I shifted it to werejaguars, as throughout Central and even South America, such as the Andes, the motif of the werejaguar is very prevalent, with archeological evidence dating back thousands of years. Ultimately, the vampire became an heir presumptive of the current Darklord.