Rose Estate

Rose Estate is a manorial building in the Midtown Ward of Ptolus. They named it for the extensive rose gardens, which feature at least a dozen different roses, with some of them night-blooming. The house comprises stones and is painted in a bright white. A 15 feet wall surrounds the entire estate. The only opening is the large gate, made of black steel and decorated with golden symbols. The center of the gate, where the two wings of the gate meet, features a huge, golden shield with a black rose in it.

First Impressions

The estate itself surrounds the front part of the gardens on three sides, in the shape of an u. The right wing contains the servant’s rooms, the kitchen and all rooms related to household duties. The left wing contains the guest suites. Each suit comprises a luxurious bedroom, a bathroom and a chamber for the maid or personal servant of the guest. The main part of the building contains the public rooms, like the extensive library, several small salons, an auditorium and an enormous ballroom, that takes up a large part of the front ground floor.

From the entrance to the front center of the main building, you have two delicately decorated hallways. One of them leads to the dining hall and the servants’ wing on the right, one of them to the guest suites and the ballroom on the left. A white marble staircase with open stairs leads to the upper floor, where also two hallways lead to the left and the right.

Once a guest turns to the right, the first door to the right leads to the dining hall, which seats up to 30 guests at a time, each of them in the company of a servant. The dining tables in this room take the shape of a u, where nobody may take the rich, decorated and throne-like seat at the head of the table. The entire room features a color-scheme that resembles dawn, with shades of red, yellow, white and peach, accompanied by a light blue. Enormous portraits of kings, queens and other important personalities decorate the walls, where only someone familiar with the owner could ever determine their importance. The light in this room comes from a crystal chandelier with rose-crystals and candles on the tables, which are also decorated with the rose-theme you can find in the entire estate.

Turning left from the entrance, a guest reaches the ballroom, and beyond that, the guest suites. The ballroom features an opposite theme to the dining hall. They covered the floor and walls in black marble. The enormous, floor-length windows are framed with black and silver curtains, with rose embroideries at the bottom seam. Facing the windows, on the other side of the room, is a stage suitable for an orchestra of 10–15 musicians. The lights in this room come from hundreds and thousands of small, rose-shaped crystals embedded into walls and ceiling of the room. Even the floor of the dancing area features these embedded light sources.

The ballroom takes up the whole left-center part of the building, while the right-center part contains, besides the dining hall, some private salons with sofas and fireplaces, designed to relax in private company. Each of these rooms features a different color scheme, but all the colors are taken from the night. All the “public” rooms are very luxurious and suitable for high-class guests.

The guest suites on the ground floor and the first floor are designed identical. They feature a color scheme that resembles a late summer evening, with blue and silvery or golden tones. Each of the windows in these suites features two sorts of shutters, one is a delicately painted metal-shutter. The other one is a set of heavy curtains.

The upper floor comprises more guest suites and an enormous library, with high bookcases and small niches for reading and drinking some brandy or anything else. As in the ballroom, the lights in the library with the heavy tomes are indirect. In this room, four servants are present whenever a guest or the owner wishes to use the library.

The Secrets of Rose Estate

The features described above are obvious to everybody visiting the estate. Few of them ever discover the real Rose Estate, with the hallways hidden in the walls, where they are protected from the light. Almost none of them know that the portraits in every room feature methods to observe the guests and mortals, to lurk on prey, brought in for entertainment. And no mortal that ever visited the basement came out with any memory of what happened there–and why. The basement belongs to the Kindred. And to the one Kindred that matters most in this building.

Each room with access to the hallways in the walls has a possibility to reach the rooms in the basements. These rooms contain one enormous suite, with a luxurious bedroom that would well suit a king or queen. It features another suite, made for servants to live with the one resting here, as if they expected that these servants are not mortal. The rooms down here are cold, and the selected servants living here are of explicit beauty, featuring bodies and faces that promise many sins.

Besides this hidden master suite, there are other rooms, furnished for every pleasure a Daeva could imagine. A collection of mortal slaves, bought for their beauty is available, as well as those fools who believe, that these “meetings in private” were because of them, not because of their blood and what they could offer the ones living and sinning here.

Luxury is the only theme that is present even here, in every room. The pictures on the walls show Daeva of all ages, most of them portrayed erotically, showing off their seductive potential. Furniture and decoration here stimulate the senses of a Daeva, decades dead, and therefore could be overwhelming for mortals brought here. But this is exactly what this is for. Seducing the Mortals to do everything the Daeva wants from them. Everything to make them feel alive.