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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 6239096" data-attributes="member: 8530">Maracita says, "Most of what goes on in the 4,800 acres of The Land of Queen Mary is farming.  It has a dozen separate tenant farms on it, most of which have been managed by the same families since Mary's time, and some even before then.  Our principal agriculture is grains. There are no towns or villages on our lands, but we are relatively equal distances to three towns, each of which four of our farms bring the annual crops and of approximately 400 acres to.   In reality, only the eight perimeter farms are real, each harvesting approximately 600 acres, with each pair of them providing the bounty for the each of the four interior mock farms.   The perimeter farms are also the only ones that receive any visitors from outside of our lands.  The tenants are good at keeping our secrets, they take pride in their discretion and know a good deal when they see it.  We provide magical equipment which greatly eases the amount of work actually needed for planting and harvesting.  And since fewer people are needed during the winter months we send half away on an all-expense-paid vacation to the Stuart estate along the French coast on the Mediterranean.  So every tenant can look forward to that from November through March, every-other-year.  As for the four interior mock farms, you've already seen two of them.  Small amounts of farming do take place there, enough to maintain the illusion, but each has its own purpose.  Those details of which we are not at liberty to share with you as of yet.  Although it is safe to say that the study of magic is a key part of it. The manor house itself was established by Queen Mary, and was known at that time by the French population to be just a countryside retreat that she would go to when she needed a break from Versailles.  We've basically maintained it as it was in her day, and occasionally entertain well-to-do guests and visitors there.    Nothing on the upper two floors gives any indication that there is anything more to the site.   Visitors going into the carriage house, the servants quarters or the storage barn would not find anything obvious there either.  But there is more to the set of buildings than meets the eye."Pepe says, "A number of mysteries remain about the site.  Mary Stuart lacked the answers too, although she did her best to solve them.   She realized that many answers lie buried on the grounds and was astute enough to bring in powerful druids from Ireland to examine the grounds before any of the buildings were constructed.   So the exact spots that the buildings are on have no archaeological treasures beneath, but the land between those buildings, that is a different story altogether.  Until now we have not had the manpower and skill sets to undertake such an operation, nor was it safe to bring in outsiders, given the need to keep matters secret."</blockquote>

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