Bembroe Manor

Thomas Bembroe built his manor in the Numen forest by a clearing of land. It was lavish and spectacular, visited by man and animal alike. He would hold wild parties until the sun rose and always had guests over as he loved to entertain. Slowly, over the course of a few years, Thomas Bembroe started scaling back his parties, only inviting some, and they never lasted long. One day, he stopped hosting entirely. He commissioned many projects for his home: the secret passage where he stored a good amount of his wealth, the hedge maze, and several wizards who animated many objects he placed around his home as security measures.The explanation for his reclusiveness stemmed from a book he bought as part of a bundle of tomes to fill his library. Though he never read it or even really looked at it, the tome exuded a corrupting aura all throughout the house, even causing specters to manifest. The writing in the book isn’t in any particular language, instead being a hybrid dialect consisting of Abyssal, Infernal, and Draconic. It sapped at his sanity and body until he finally died. The tome, itself, is a black leather bound book. There is no writing on the cover of spine. There is no title on the inside pages, no author, or any indication of who wrote it or when. The only indicating marker on the first few pages is a red eye inside an inverted triangle which is inside the symbol of a Catherine wheel.