Stonewill Estate (Patreon)

A dubious ally and patron of adventurers in town, “Lord” Eldric Stonewill conducts most of his business from his family home on the ancient cobbled Avenue of Whispers. Here he lives with his suspiciously quiet family and retainers. The building is an old two-story affair with a servants wing, four family bedrooms, study, smoking room, music room, and a crafting room where Lady Stonewill holds her own private court over needlepoint.

The west wing of the building is the servants quarters (for servants and men at arms) on the second floor, and the kitchen & dining area on the ground floor. Beneath the kitchen are the cellars and wine cellar – connected by a secret passage to a small chamber hidden beneath Lord Stonewill’s study. This secret chamber can be for whatever use you have in mind, but is most likely either for dark rituals of some kind, or more likely that central furniture is a massive bed for tawdry affairs with one of the staff.

Lord Eldric is a tall and gaunt figure with piercing grey eyes that almost seem to glow faintly in the dark. His skin is alabaster white and his long, black hair is always meticulously combed back under a silver coronet. He wears ancient ornate robes adorned with symbols that hint at arcane knowledge. He takes it upon himself to communicate primarily in riddles and only shows emotion as a calculated ploy to manipulate those around him. Some believe that much of this is a side-effect of his quest for immortality in his youth, and that he at least partially succeeded and is now something not quite human. At some point during this quest, he learned the ability to manipulate shadows – using them to communicate (sometimes directly to someone else’s shadow), to spy, or even to transport himself across short distances.

Playing the role of “good wife”, Lady Glavin Stonewill is, if anything, more clever, more devious, and definitely more observant than her husband. Not as lean as her husband, she keeps her greying hair pinned up with a set of jewelled hairpins that double as magical weapons that can both block spells against her and steal spells from those she strikes.

She keeps her husband’s shadow pinned to the wall of the crafting room trapped in a piece of dark needlepoint – it is through this that he has his powers over shadows. She often observes his meetings with adventurers and underlings and then advises him on what she noted about them. And whatever goes on in that secret room under his study might be a mystery to everyone else, but definitely not to her.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 8,400 x 13,200 pixels (28 x 44 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) – so resizing the image to 1,960 x 3,080 pixels.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/05/08/stonewill-estate/