Wilted Rose Estate Map Pack [40 x 30] (Patreon)

A pestilence had reached the city years ago, claiming the lives of the rich and poor alike. It started in the shallows and slowly made its way  into the markets. From there, it traveled everywhere and touched  everyone. Doors were boarded up, homes burnt to the ground, bodies  carted out of the city in droves.

Lady Wingret saw her husband wilt and blacken over the days, pock marks covering his skin and blood welling in his throat. After his death, she withdrew to the lower level of her estate to research a cure. Using  their knowledge of herbal remedies, she began to develop potential  solutions, but they were dangerous. She needed test subjects.

It  began with animals, but soon she needed something different. She needed  someone. Then more someones. She paid for volunteers, but when the  volunteers ran out, she hired dark men to do dark deeds and bring the  subjects she needed to the estate.

Word  has spread through what's left of the city of people going missing at  night. Men lurking about alleyways, watching the pubs and taverns,  scouring the roads.

Some of the people are willing to speak of what they saw. Some are willing to pay to see their loved one returned.

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The main level of the estate has fallen into disrepair since the Lady of the manor became a widow and shuttered herself in the basement to find a cure for the plague tearing through the community. 

The estate is now manned by a gang of thugs and mercenaries in the Lady's employ, who enjoy run of the estate in return for bringing fresh subjects for her research.

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We  descended the stair in the murky basement, the sound of soft wailing  and cries of pain echoing off the cold stone. Shadows flitted along the  hallways as men moved about, opening cell doors, hauling limp bodies.  The smell of death hang heavy on the air, moist and wet. Tiny vines  crawled along the cracks in the floor, and blood-red flowers bloomed  atop dark puddles.

One thing was certain; as bad as things had gotten upstairs - this was worse.

Much worse.

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The  lower level of the Wilted Rose Estate features several chambers to be  used in theme with the upper estate. The southeastern section of the  lower level is dedicated to the  imprisonment and testing of potential  cures to a deadly disease. Several cells line the periphery, while a  barracks, captain's chambers, storage room, processing room and testing  chamber remain behind lock and key.

North of the prisoner area are [2] nobles quarters of the Lady and late Lord Wingret, as well as their son and daughter.

The  southwestern portion of the estate contains privies and bath for the  nobility, and a shrine dedicated to the Goddess of Agriculture, though  it has since gone untended and been abandoned for another source of  curing the plague.

In the  northwestern chamber, the Lady Wingret has researched and opened a gate  to the Feywild in hopes of finding herbal remedies not available in her  part of the world. While her intentions are good, and nothing harmful  has yet crossed, it's only a matter of time before something does.

The  party must make a moral decision, as the Lady Wingret desperately wants  to solve the plague, and is close to making that discovery. Given some  time with her subjects, she could potentially save thousands, however,  she is abducting and murdering no small amount of people as part of her  fevered research.

And the gate must be closed.

Decisions, decisions.

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These maps could serve as the ending point toward any kind of disease/plague/pestilence type quest(s) you have going on in your homebrew, setting the stage for both social and combat encounters, as the party must track the missing bodies to the estate and then determine how best to enter, explore and confront Lady Wingret.

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