[Location] Wright Manor

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Wright Manor On the western side of Zeltiva, where the narrow plain on which the city was built began to give way to the Zatoska mountains, stood a large house. It was made of locally quarried granite; the unadorned style of the architecture marked it as a structure no more than a century old. It was surrounded by a large, immaculately landscaped lawn, punctuated at intervals with junipers trimmed in geometric shapes. A low brick outbuilding stood at the southern end of the property. Although the careful landscaping hid the fact, the house had been unoccupied for more than fifty years. It had belonged to Kenabelle Wright, the legendary Zeltivan navigator whose circumnavigation of Mizahar remained the finest achievement of the city's sailors and explorers. She had purchased the manor following her return from that expedition, and it was while living there that she had written her famous book about the voyage. Wright had disappeared in 459 AV, presumably while sailing to Sunberth. All attempts to locate her or her vessel proved fruitless, and Wright was officially presumed dead. Normally, the story of the manor would have ended there. But when Wright's will was read, it was found that she had left specific directions that her home be maintained precisely as she had left it. Her fortune was locked in an estate administered by the Lord of Council's office, and her property taxes were paid out of that fund. Additionally, Wright instructed that her housekeeper and groundskeeper be retained on salary in perpetuity, assigned to keep everything in order. Although both have now been dead for some two decades, the servants' children have taken over the positions of housekeeper and groundskeeper, and continue to live in the brick outbuilding. The iron gate to the road outside is kept locked. There is a bell, however, and if one presses it and is willing to wait a few minutes, one of the servants will eventually come to the gate and peer through the bars at the visitor. "Greetings. Do you have business at the Manor?"