Depcevik House

Depcevik House is a living architectural Flora building located in Cambane, Cesland. It was gifted to the town by Ebonvale, Vinato, as a way of joining the two Flora-centric communities together across the whole of Leland.

Cambane and Ebonvale: A Pan-Lelandic Bond

Cambane and Ebonvale both have strong ties to their respective Flora disciplines. Cambane, home of Lace Twine University, is considered to be the center of aesthetic Flora study. Ebonvale, a village constructed almost entirely of living plants around the time of The Great Invasion, is considered to be the pinnacle of living architectural Flora. Just as horticultural and agricultural Flora are said to go hand in hand, aesthetic and architectural Flora are also connected.
The academic institutions at the center of these communities, Lace Twine University and Ebonvale Institute, respectively, already had a program set up to exchange faculty as guest lecturers, so it only seemed natural that the relationship would extend to the communities themselves.
In 1140, a delegation of Ebonvale living architectural Flora experts lead by Zakhar Depcevik arrived in Cambane to create a building in the style of their homes. In conjunction with a collection of herbateurs from Lace Twine, a simple house was constructed over the course of three years. Though the house would be dedicated in 1143, it continues to be built upon to this day by both a yearly visit from the Depcevik Delegation and regular maintenance by the architectural faculty at Lace Twine.

Depcevik House Through the Years

The original Depcevik House dedicated in 1143 was a simple three room house. The delegation had taken advantage of Cambane's mild climate to focus on the structure of the house rather than making it weather proof as they would have in Ebonvale. Such improvements would come in the later years. 
In the following decades as the trees involved in construction continued to grow, the house grew upward and outward. Once the structure was suitably in place, floseurs began working on the aesthetics of the house through introduction of flowers, ivies, and other decorative plants into the ecosystem of the house.
The modern Depcevik House is three proper stories tall with a fourth floor that currently has only a roof above it with no walls. It as beautiful inside as outside and is properly weather proofed. It has been so meticulously cared for that on the first two floors one likely wouldn't realize they were in a living house unless they were told.

Founding Date

1143