The Palace of Misery

WFRP 4e Altdorf Crown of Empire E3 pg 140

The ‘Palace of Misery’ got its nickname from the dire conditions within and the depressing view of Toteninsel’s many graves. It stands, or rather lists, at the southern end of Reaper’s Crossing. From the outside, this is an especially ramshackle specimen of an East End rookery. There are so many decrepit wooden galleries and rooms thrusting out into the street that the original buildings are indiscernible. The dirt-smeared wattleand-daub is patched and soggy. Hollow-eyed children stare from gaping windows with broken shutters. Gutters leak water and filth through sagging roofs.
Inside is even worse. The air seems tainted with despair and the rooms are so small, filthy, and squalid that the residents sit in sullen silence. Each family lives in a single room, strung with washing and stinking of human deprivation. The corridors and staircases wind in crazy directions, tunnelling through the structure like the burrowing of a maggot through a corpse.

Type

Apartment building / Tenament