Uiry Manor Museum

Long ago, House Uiry was one of the notable players in the War of Strings. Then, in 4673 AR, a strange visitor arrived and was welcomed by House Uiry’s scion lord. A footman was dispatched to a nearby manor to get more wine, and when he returned, every single living thing in the house was dead, from the scion lord down to the youngest daughter of the cook. The stranger was not found. The murders were never solved, and they remain one of Absalom’s more popular and gruesome mysteries.
House Uiry never recovered from the blow and sunk gradually into obscurity and a sort of genteel poverty. To combat the latter, at least, the manor was turned into a museum. Visitors can gawk at trophies won in long-ago wars, at the few pieces of artwork and statues not yet pawned off, and of course, at the murder sites. To draw more paying sightseers, wax mannequins have been set up in the wine cellar depicting how the murders were thought to have occurred, while guides offer various popular theories as to the stranger’s identity. Scion Lady Veridel, a child at the time of the murders and away at school, quietly refuses to spend so much as a single night at Uiry Manor, though she has also refused more than one offer to sell the building, for reasons she will not explain.

Type

Museum

Parent Location

Petal District

Owner

Veridel

Ruling/Owning Rank

Scion Lord

Owning Organization

House Uiry