Whisperwood-Salter Regional Hospital
There lies a large building tucked away deep in a forest in the western country of Aswary, wrapped in mist, fog and the darkness of the distance between this small forest and the nearest city, Ballpoint.
This forest is swathed with extremely dense greenery and vast, confusing valleys and hilly inclines al mixed together to provide an uneasy travel through the woods to reach either the hidden structure inside or the flourishing city beyond the borders of the forest and facing the northern coast of the country of Aswary.
One such building is the Whisperwood Regional Hospital.
Founded in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, the Whisperwood Regional Hospital was funded and drawn up by Sir Ansketel Gawaine Salter as, originally, his manor where he had found the seclusion of the forest - called Whisperwood, from which the hospital gained it's name - peaceful and inviting. He had drawn the plans along with his wife and two daughters who he had been working to leave behind an inheritance and a proper, large home that could provide for them even long after the patriarch's eventual death. The home comprised of some seven bedrooms, four full baths, two dining rooms - one on each end of the building - three library studies, a garden situated in the rear of the property, a large collection of underground cellars and food storage rooms, an amply decorated and furnished schoolroom - the girls would need a private tutor - as well as other necessary accommodations for the family needs as well as the business for which Sir Salter was employed. When he had seen the completion of the mansion some five years later, his assumptions of his impending doom had seemed to come to fruition.
He had come back from a work trip that had lasted a full month, with a fractional dose of the infamous Fraga Hydrorhagia parasitic infection that was not well known at the time. A few days after his return, his condition worsened, and he was relegated to home visits from the accomplished doctors and medical field officers at the time.
Despite all attempts to cure him, he perished from the disease some five months later, and left in his will every cent of his fortune and every inch of the grand estate that he had built for his family when they had removed to the forest to live their secluded life.
Shortly afterwards, the daughters of the late Salter commissioned another smaller home to be constructed nearby in a small grove found elsewhere in the forest. They commissioned the renovation of the original mansion to be turned into a hospital in dedication of their father, so as to carry on his legacy in order to provide home and care to those falling ill and dying to disease and sickness.
Thus, the Whisperwood-Salter Regional Hospital was named, and it took nearly seven years for the building to be fully renovated before being opened to the public as a hospital and care facility. It saw it's share of history and unknown sickness, including a massive case of the condition called Scarlet Plague. This disease swept the continent of Rethium and even the expanse of the Histian Islands and their empire, and was one of the worst known plagues to have swept the world at the time. As modern history came about and with it the best cures and medicine for them, the majority of the hospital was renovated into a more modern appearance, and the floor and building space even enlarged to provide for the needs of modern time and those who needed to access the hospital. In place of the paved cobblestone path that led through the forest in the early years, an asphalt paved roadway stretched almost perfectly straight through to the hospital.
But the smaller building behind it, used as the family mansion following the conversion of the original, slowly became more worn and aged, until the descendants finally abandoned it and moved into the nearby city after invasions of pests and other issues had become too dangerous for their health and daily life. Ever since the conversion into a hospital and it's subsequent opening, the facility has lasted for hundreds of years into the twenty-first century and is expected to last even further, as technological advances and medical advances always allowing more and more patients to be treated for their illnesses as time goes on.
This forest is swathed with extremely dense greenery and vast, confusing valleys and hilly inclines al mixed together to provide an uneasy travel through the woods to reach either the hidden structure inside or the flourishing city beyond the borders of the forest and facing the northern coast of the country of Aswary.
One such building is the Whisperwood Regional Hospital.
Founded in the mid-eighteen-hundreds, the Whisperwood Regional Hospital was funded and drawn up by Sir Ansketel Gawaine Salter as, originally, his manor where he had found the seclusion of the forest - called Whisperwood, from which the hospital gained it's name - peaceful and inviting. He had drawn the plans along with his wife and two daughters who he had been working to leave behind an inheritance and a proper, large home that could provide for them even long after the patriarch's eventual death. The home comprised of some seven bedrooms, four full baths, two dining rooms - one on each end of the building - three library studies, a garden situated in the rear of the property, a large collection of underground cellars and food storage rooms, an amply decorated and furnished schoolroom - the girls would need a private tutor - as well as other necessary accommodations for the family needs as well as the business for which Sir Salter was employed. When he had seen the completion of the mansion some five years later, his assumptions of his impending doom had seemed to come to fruition.
He had come back from a work trip that had lasted a full month, with a fractional dose of the infamous Fraga Hydrorhagia parasitic infection that was not well known at the time. A few days after his return, his condition worsened, and he was relegated to home visits from the accomplished doctors and medical field officers at the time.
Despite all attempts to cure him, he perished from the disease some five months later, and left in his will every cent of his fortune and every inch of the grand estate that he had built for his family when they had removed to the forest to live their secluded life.
Shortly afterwards, the daughters of the late Salter commissioned another smaller home to be constructed nearby in a small grove found elsewhere in the forest. They commissioned the renovation of the original mansion to be turned into a hospital in dedication of their father, so as to carry on his legacy in order to provide home and care to those falling ill and dying to disease and sickness.
Thus, the Whisperwood-Salter Regional Hospital was named, and it took nearly seven years for the building to be fully renovated before being opened to the public as a hospital and care facility. It saw it's share of history and unknown sickness, including a massive case of the condition called Scarlet Plague. This disease swept the continent of Rethium and even the expanse of the Histian Islands and their empire, and was one of the worst known plagues to have swept the world at the time. As modern history came about and with it the best cures and medicine for them, the majority of the hospital was renovated into a more modern appearance, and the floor and building space even enlarged to provide for the needs of modern time and those who needed to access the hospital. In place of the paved cobblestone path that led through the forest in the early years, an asphalt paved roadway stretched almost perfectly straight through to the hospital.
But the smaller building behind it, used as the family mansion following the conversion of the original, slowly became more worn and aged, until the descendants finally abandoned it and moved into the nearby city after invasions of pests and other issues had become too dangerous for their health and daily life. Ever since the conversion into a hospital and it's subsequent opening, the facility has lasted for hundreds of years into the twenty-first century and is expected to last even further, as technological advances and medical advances always allowing more and more patients to be treated for their illnesses as time goes on.
Type
Hospital
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