Quebec

Throughout Quebec, particularly in times of struggle and strife, a ghostly cathedral has appeared on a hill outside various communities. Its melancholy bell strikes a note of doom, drawing visitors against their better judgment, and many who enter its beautiful stained glass doors do not return. This is la Cathédrale de la Douleur, “the Cathedral of Pain”, built in the 18th century in Quebec City.
Originally just a beautiful church, it became infamous as a center of cruelty by the infamous Soeur Madeleine in the early 19th century, who used it as the center of a brutal cult. Destroyed by champions in the service of the Church in 1808, Soeur Madeleine vowed that even death would not halt her campaign to purify Upper Canada (the former name for the southern portion of what is now Ontario) of its sins, and she’s made good on that vow ever since.
The Cathedral has played a key role in the lives of two of Quebec’s most prominent superhumans. Alouette, the leader of La Ligue des Héros du Québec (LHQ), was captured as a young girl and raised among the Sisters of Severity until she was 15; another child victim, Pierre Legault, was also captured and released by the Cathedral. He chose a different path, becoming the leader of Quebec’s supervillain community, the shadowy Malfaiteur (an inherited title for Quebec’s most honored criminal mastermind since the 1930s).
The LHQ’s members include Alouette (or Lark), a speedster, Monument, a powerhouse, Alain Aventure, a gadgeteer, and Merveille D’hiver (or Winter Wonder), an energy projector/elemental with cold powers. As a group, they have vowed to shut down the Cathedral. To this end, they’ve recruited Quebec’s most gifted occultist, the mysterious Andre Delacroix. However, Delacroix has his own agenda: the Cathedral is but one of a number of Quebec’s “ghost buildings” drawing on an ancient source of mystical energy, commonly used by his brotherhood of mystics (Mystères Québec). Delacroix will protect the secret of that source at all costs, even if he has to sacrifice all of Quebec’s greatest heroes (and any foreigners entangled in the battle against Soeur Madeleine) to do it.