Connects to: 06.05, 07.04, 29.14.05 and 49.03.
Several decades ago, the Delasar family (07.04) still dwelt in their ancestral abode, a sprawling and decaying mansion in the midst of overgrown parkland. However, they grew envious of the larger and more imposing castle nearby, inhabited by the monks known as the Poor Brothers. One night, all the Poor Brothers vanished together, leaving a rather suspicious deed which signed over all their lands to the Delasars. The rotting old mansion was abandoned, and the Lord and Lady Delasar moved into their current apartments.
Since that time, the woods around the mansion have grown even wilder, and the mansion itself more decayed. It is not entirely uninhabited, though. The Lady Delasar’s demented brother, Ogwyn Egglurs, refused to quit the home where he had lived most of his adult life, and he dwells there still. To keep him company, his sister has conjured up a tribe of homonculi, half-man and half-beetle, created in the beetle badlands (06.05). Each homonculus is roughly three feet tall, vaguely insectoid, and vicious when provoked. Ogwyn has even taken a she-beetle to be his wife. Part of the Delasar’s sumptous vegetable crop goes to feeding this population.
The mansion is large and old and some branches of it have not been properly explored since long before the Delasars left. Rumor has it that the Lady uses the place to store her more esoteric treasures and spellbooks. Now the beetle-men will fight to defend the mansion and their master.
Connections:
- Some say that the High Priest of the Creche of a Million Young (29.14.05) is in fact Ogwyn Egglurs.
- Beetlefolk similar to these homunculi live far to the east (49.03).
Hooks:
- How did the Delasars get rid of the Poor Brothers, and where are they now?
- From where does the Egglurs family hail?
- What other secrets lurk in the Delasar family history? Does dark sorcery come from this side of the family, or from the Egglurs’?
