Blackstone
Along the west bank of the Starwater River, where it bends in a graceful southward arc before emptying into the Lake of Dragons, stands a rock-strewn ridge and a single tower manned by Purple Dragons. (The sheep that graze the ridge provide no additional security.)
Four hundred and fifty years prior (approximately 1050 DR), the ridge was topped by tall trees and a many-spired manor called Blackstone. That structure caught
Fire and collapsed into its own cellars in the days after its only occupants, the Therasparin family, were found to have disappeared entirely. They left no possessions, no animals, no servants, and no riches behind. There was an abundance of blood, however; enough to cover the ground floor of the manor from floor to ceiling, as though the whole of the place had suffered a sanguine flood.
Records held in
The Royal Court detail the voices heard by veteran courtiers who'd been assigned the task of investigating Blackstone. After its (literal) fall, many finely-cut stones were harvested from the remnants of the manor and used in buildings as far away as Immersea. Some
War Wizards theorized that the stones still carried the manor's ghosts and that this explained the rise in hauntings among newly (at the time) constructed towers, buildings, and warehouses in the vicinity of the Starwater.
Once or twice a century, reports of hauntings in the form of disembodied voices that speak of the blood curse, of the elves that remember and the elves who hate, and the everchanging blade that will shatter the gates find their way to the
War Wizards. Debate among
War Wizards over Blackstone's ghosts resumes whenever the old records are rediscovered.
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