Karlov Family Home

"You see it too, right? Out the corner of your eye? Just when you're looking away from those awful paintings, you see the pictures blink, but for a mere moment. The creaking in the dead of night. It happens when everybody else is asleep, and we certainly don't hear it when we're awake, now do we?"

- Father Karlov, to his Brother.

The Karlov family is a rich institution from within the Lydgartha society. They are known for the making of Karlov Ale, a family recipe that has propelled them from rags to riches. Ultimately, they had expanded into a large home, with it's basement having been renovated from a rogue's passageway, a fact they did not know, into their primary brewery. This had only become an issue years later when that same rogue returned. With the home being decorated with many riches, due to the reckless spending of the more respected members of the family name, it has become a hotspot of subpar portraits. As the scoundrel had returned to his old home, he had began to make good use of the hidden pathways of the house, stalking the family under every turn and movement they made. Ultimately his plan is to reclaim the house as his own, whether by scaring off the Karlovs, or by slaying them all.

The home itself has been under numerous owners, but it's most recent owner, except the Karlov family, had been a legendary scoundrel within the regions of Lydgartha, having been able to cause major havoc in every major city he's found himself in. His home was made as both a hideout for whenever the forces of those cities would begin attempting to find him. After the last owners of the home mysteriously died from a poisoning, burrows, walkways, and passages were commissioned by the rogue to be implemented between the walls of each room. It was after he was caught that the home would be abandoned for a few years, just in time for the Karlov family to move in, and declare it their own. If anything, according to the thief, he is just wishing for some petty revenge upon the beer-brewers for taking what he deems to be rightfully his, even if he stole it as well.

The Basement, Changed

Now as a host for brewing ales, the Basement used to be the armoury for the thief, and the nexus to all of his passageways from his own house, and even to the local town, through the tunnels he had made himself alongside a sect of artificers. Once the Karlov's moved in, the armoury was discarded, auctioned off for cheap gold, and instead made it the home of the brewery. With kegs lining the key pathways, the Karlovs had never taken notice to it. When the rogue had managed to sneak back into the home, he had a drum barrel emptied, which he used to sleep in. The paintings of the home have actually had carved out peepholes hidden in plain sight. Those who work within the basement in the Karlov family would report to Father Karlov about the scuttling they heard at night, the mumbles coming from the kegs near the back wall. Father Karlov would dismiss them under every moment of mention. His own concerns were his paranoia. He could swear, more often than not, that the paintings in the home would blink occassionally. Upon voicing concerns with some of the other family members, he had hired some of The Spirit Hunters to see if the house itself was haunted. No results proving it came back, and ever since then, he goes through fearful searches of the house to find out where and when the blinking occurs.

The Manor's Loot

There are two different tables for the loot of Karlov Manor. These two tables reflect both the hidden treasure rooms scattered across the passageways created by the former owner, as well as the individual treasure vault within the second floor of the building. 

Karlov's Treasure Vault

The Hidden Treasures

Founding Date

71 FL

Alternative Names

Karlov Manor

Type

Estate

Characters in Location

• Dr Ixik Gray