Verdant Orchard Estate
Verdant Orchard Estate
- Aspect: Wood
- Rating: 2/3
- Hearthstone: Survival Stone
- Drawbacks: Fragility 1
- Powers: Attunement Recognition, Basic Sense, Basic Conveniences (1, powered windows and doors), Power Grid (1; Powers Maharesh), Subtle Breath of Sextes Jylis (1, climate controls), Provider (2, provides food and water for up to Magnitude 3 people)
The Verdant Orchard Estate is a glorious place, crafted of the finest woods and finished in a green-jade lacquer. The stream runs near it, and it is utterly surrounded by tall, vibrant deciduous trees, all of which are heavy with fruit.
The Manse itself is tall-walled, with gabled roofs. It is only a single story in height, but that story is some thirty feet up, with broad windows that grow themselves open and closed at the will of those who place their hands on the small green jade disks within. This Manse houses a private wing, including a sumptuous bedchamber with a magnificent set of windows to let in the night air and provide access to the upper balconies, a public room and kitchens and servant quarters.
It also possesses an impressively large public common area with two tiers, where the annual Seed Festival of Maharesh was once held. This common area, which is about the size of several large barns, features wide balconies all around it, which provide access to the balconies outside, via the vaulted doorways that can be commanded to grow closed like the windows.
The Hearthstone Chamber is a magnificent single room at the very peak of the Manse, accessible by a stairway from the upper balconies. This single chamber is rounded and sits like a tree-house high above the ground, like a crown atop the leafy heads of the trees around it.
The Essence of the Verdant Orchard Estate is channeled to the Obelisks of the city and redistributed, allowing many materials to regenerate fully – the softer the material, the faster it returns to a whole state. Many houses here boast sculptures and decoration crafted from woods, metals and stone considered too soft for such, because of this feature. Additionally, plants grow quite quickly in areas powered by an Obelisk.
