Chambers Asylum
The mind can only take so much before it cracks. There are many causes for lunacy: the trauma of recurring nightmares, encounters with eldritch horrors, the revelation of dark secrets, and the pain of prolonged torture name but a few. When people become mad enough to endanger themselves and others, they are brought to the Chambers Asylum. Few of those interred ever walk the streets of Freeport again.
History
The Chambers Asylum was founded forty-nine years ago during the reign of Marten Drac. When he was Lord, Marten became rich through rampant corruption and taxation. He gained and maintained power by the judicious use of blackmail, double-dealing, and murder. Those who truly angered him faced being locked up in Freeport’s new asylum for the insane, never to be heard from again. At the time, few Freeporters connected the building of this new asylum with the Lord. It appeared to be the work Dr. Chambers, a man from the Continent who claimed to have invented new techniques to treat the insane. In reality, Chambers was a charlatan hired by Marten Drac to run what amounted a private prison for the Lord’s enemies. The Chambers Asylum allowed Drac to confine undesirables in its cells without the pretense of a trial. Once there, anything could be done to them. When Anton Drac became Lord, things changed at the asylum. Dr. Chambers was run out of town and priests of Sul took it over. Even so, the Chambers Asylum remained a grim place. Those consigned there were often beyond help, and many were quite violent. Even the healers could not bring comfort to the inmates, and over time, the asylum began to affect the priests. It made them harder and crueler. This behavior did not go unnoticed at the temple, so when Milton Drac offered to purchase the Chambers Asylum for a hefty price, the priests quickly agreed. Milton Drac was, of course, a leader in the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign, a cult dedicated to the madness of the Unseeing Eye. During his reign, blasphemous rituals were performed in the Chambers Asylum, and many sane Freeporters went mad within its walls. When Milton Drac and his closest cohorts were slain, the asylum was forgotten in the chaotic aftermath and the ensuing succession crisis. Three years ago, a self-described “life researcher” named Bianka Altanish took over the Chambers Asylum. She was more interested in using the patients as test subjects than in curing them. She leaves the day-to-day running of the asylum to Clement Moore, content to pursue her research.
The Asylum by Adam Hepner
Founding Date
825
Type
Hospital
Parent Location
Owner
Characters in Location
The World of Nor
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