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This is the most famous manse in all of Creation.

History

The Imperial Manse was constructed in the distant past, either during or before the First Age. During the Shogunate Era it was abandoned and forgotten until the woman who would become the Scarlet Empress and several companions entered it during an attack on Creation by the Fair Folk. It is unknown what exactly happened to her companions or how she gained control of the manse, but it is known that she was the sole survivor of the traps and dangers inside it. In the more than seven centuries since no other mortal or Dragon-Blood has ever entered it and returned to tell the tale.

Appearance and Contents

The Imperial Manse is the centerpiece of the Imperial Palace and is at the center of a large garden. Physically it is a huge, squat building decorated with orichalcum and marble, it possess a single door that is a slab of black jade. Inside this impressive building are controls that unify all the war manses of the Blessed Isle's Imperial Defense Grid as if they were a single weapon. In addition to these controls, the manse contains First Age mechanisms that made the Empress an equal to the Shoguns who came before her.

Additional Powers

In addition to controlling the Imperial Defense Grid, the Imperial Manse has a number of known and theorized powers that it conferred upon the Empress.

• When inside the Manse, fighting the Fair Folk, it allowed the Empress to project her image to every village, town and city in the Realm. This may work based on attunement instead of requiring occupancy.

Concerns

The Realm's senior leadership today is greatly worried over its inability to access the Imperial Manse, as it is one of the Empire's most important military resources. This concern is twofold.

• No one among the Realm’s current leaders has any idea how to get inside the manse, much less how it work.
• A number of sorcerers have been studying the manse and everyone knows that whoever emerges from the manse knowing its secrets and its powers will be the next Emperor or Empress by default. In order to prevent this the Great Houses have mounted a number of security precautions to keep anyone from entering it.