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Subsequent CyclesDT&DL p. 65-67

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	Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.		Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.

	Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[~~Ildygard~~ Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled.		Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[Ildgaard Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled.

			The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.

	~~The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.~~
	==Current Conditions==		==Current Conditions==
	In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.		In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.

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	What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)\|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]]<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60</ref>.		What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)\|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]]<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends]] p. 59-60</ref>.

	Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].		Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].
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	In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.		In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.

	The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60</ref>.		The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends]] p. 59-60</ref>.

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	What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)\|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]]<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60</ref>.		What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)\|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]]<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60</ref>.
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	Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].		Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].

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	What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)\|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]].		What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)\|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]]<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60</ref>.
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	Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].		Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].
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	==History==		==History==
	===History Prior to the Ashington Curse===		===History Prior to the Ashington Curse===
	The portrait gallery of Ashington Manor depicted a transition from the kinder generations of old to the cruelty of the younger generations. Elsewhere, in its library, four generations of Ashington Lords collected works of occult lore. The final lord to do so, [[Herod Ashington]], was the then current lord some eighty-five years ago. Although he was only a [[dabbler]] in black magic and not a true [[spellcaster]], Lord Herod was particularly knowledgeable in [[Vistani]] magic thanks to his friendship with a couple of [[darkling]]s.		The portrait gallery of Ashington Manor depicted a transition from the kinder generations of old to the cruelty of the younger generations<ref>DT&DL p. 85</ref>. Elsewhere, in its library, four generations of Ashington Lords collected works of occult lore<ref>DT&DL p. 58</ref>. The final lord to do so, [[Herod Ashington]], was the then current lord some eighty-five years ago. Although he was only a [[dabbler]] in black magic and not a true [[spellcaster]], Lord Herod was particularly knowledgeable in [[Vistani]] magic thanks to his friendship with a couple of [[darkling]]s<ref name="DT&DL p. 159">DT&DL p. 159</ref>.

	A depraved and vile nobleman, Lord Herod held regular gatherings of debauchery and perversion with his fellow nobles at the manor. Sometimes unfortunate passersby were abducted as "guests" for the parties, and most of said guests lost their lives as "party favors". The Vistani girl, [[Rozaleen]], was one such victim, kidnapped by Lord Herod's cronies [[Rostoff]] and [[Hanford]].		A depraved and vile nobleman, Lord Herod held regular gatherings of debauchery and perversion with his fellow nobles at the manor. Sometimes unfortunate passersby were abducted as "guests" for the parties, and most of said guests lost their lives as "party favors"<ref name="DT&DL p. 159">DT&DL p. 159</ref>. The Vistani girl, [[Rozaleen]], was one such victim, kidnapped by Lord Herod's cronies [[Rostoff]] and [[Hanford]]<ref>DT&DL p. 61</ref>.

	===Rozaleen's Murder and Curse===		===Rozaleen's Murder and Curse<ref>DT&DL p. 61-64</ref>===
	Although Rozaleen's kidnappers had taken her for purposes of sexual exploitation, Lord Herod recognized her abilities as a [[seer]] and [[fortune teller]] and demanded a night's entertainment with the reading of the [[tarokka]]. Having received an earlier premonition of ill omen, Rozaleen was nonetheless forced to give the readings for Herod and his guests, all echoing surmounting doom. Doubting the truthfulness of the foreboding readings despite the anxiety of his guests, Lord Herod threatened Rozaleen with her life to provide entertaining fortune telling instead of frightening. Rozaleen warned Herod that none of them should leave the manor grounds should she not be able to. Infuriated, Herod began strangling Rozaleen in the middle of her tarokka reading. Before she died, Rozaleen transformed her warning into a [[curse]]. That night was eight and half decades ago.		Although Rozaleen's kidnappers had taken her for purposes of sexual exploitation, Lord Herod recognized her abilities as a [[seer]] and [[fortune teller]] and demanded a night's entertainment with the reading of the [[tarokka]]. Having received an earlier premonition of ill omen, Rozaleen was nonetheless forced to give the readings for Herod and his guests, all echoing surmounting doom. Doubting the truthfulness of the foreboding readings despite the anxiety of his guests, Lord Herod threatened Rozaleen with her life to provide entertaining fortune telling instead of frightening. Rozaleen warned Herod that none of them should leave the manor grounds should she not be able to. Infuriated, Herod began strangling Rozaleen in the middle of her tarokka reading. Before she died, Rozaleen transformed her warning into a [[curse]]. That night was eight and half decades ago.

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	Word spread of a curse upon Ashington Manor made the locals shun it entirely for a number of years.		Word spread of a curse upon Ashington Manor made the locals shun it entirely for a number of years.

	===Subsequent Cycles===		===Subsequent Cycles<ref>DT&DL p. 65-67</ref>===
	Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.		Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.

	Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[Ildygard Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled~~<ref>DT&DL p. 65-67</ref>~~.		Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[Ildygard Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled.

	The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.		The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.
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	In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.		In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.

	The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists<ref>~~DT&DL~~ p. 59-60</ref>.		The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists<ref name="Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60">[[Dark Tales and Disturbing Legends p. 59-60</ref>.

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	Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.		Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.

	Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[Ildygard Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled.		Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[Ildygard Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled<ref>DT&DL p. 65-67</ref>.

	The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.		The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.

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	The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.		The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.
	==Current Conditions==		==Current Conditions==
	In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[~~gimorgo~~]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits.		In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[giomorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits<ref>DT&DL p. 74-75</ref>.

	The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists.		The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists<ref>DT&DL p. 59-60</ref>.

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	On the following evening, Lord Herod and his fellows gathered again at the manor. The mood of his guests was notably less happy than they were before the previous night's end. Egged on by the evil [[bard]] [[Maekon]], Lord Herod came to suspect his guests of harboring sympathies to the deceased Vistani girl. Consumed with rage over this perceived betrayal, Lord Herod slaughtered his guests down to the last man and woman, though his [[servant]]s fled the scene. Lord Herod lost his life to the death gaze of Maekon, whom was secretly one of the [[Vehrteig]]. Unaffected by Rozaleen's curse thanks to her nature, Maekon took [[Rozaleen's Tarokka Deck\|Rozaleen's tarokka deck]] and left. Said tarokka deck was a highly powerful magical item that granted Rozaleen's curse such power that the cycle of murder and betrayal would happen again, albeit with different individuals and under different circumstances, upon the manor grounds once every 17 years on the anniversary of Rozaleen's murder.		On the following evening, Lord Herod and his fellows gathered again at the manor. The mood of his guests was notably less happy than they were before the previous night's end. Egged on by the evil [[bard]] [[Maekon]], Lord Herod came to suspect his guests of harboring sympathies to the deceased Vistani girl. Consumed with rage over this perceived betrayal, Lord Herod slaughtered his guests down to the last man and woman, though his [[servant]]s fled the scene. Lord Herod lost his life to the death gaze of Maekon, whom was secretly one of the [[Vehrteig]]. Unaffected by Rozaleen's curse thanks to her nature, Maekon took [[Rozaleen's Tarokka Deck\|Rozaleen's tarokka deck]] and left. Said tarokka deck was a highly powerful magical item that granted Rozaleen's curse such power that the cycle of murder and betrayal would happen again, albeit with different individuals and under different circumstances, upon the manor grounds once every 17 years on the anniversary of Rozaleen's murder.

			Word spread of a curse upon Ashington Manor made the locals shun it entirely for a number of years.

	===Subsequent Cycles===		===Subsequent Cycles===
			Three years later, [[Byron Ashington-Welles]] came to Ashington Manor with the intent of reforming the [[Ashington family]] name. One of [[Hala]]'s faithful, Ashington-Welles turned the manor into [[hospice]] in her name, [[the Blessed Hall of Ashington]]. For over a decade, Ashington-Welles and his associates serviced the needs of innumerable individuals, until the 17th anniversary of Rozaleen's death approached. Drawn by the subconscious influence of Rozaleen's tarokka deck, Maekon returned to the manor, where she found not her necessary sustenance of [[evil]] not among the dogooder hospice workers. Instead, she felt the dark nature of the hospice's guard leader, a cruel man named [[Gavel]] secretly guilty of raping and murdering one of Hala's faithful. Maekon incited Gavel to go on a killing spree, thereby ensuring the first iteration of the Ashington Manor curse.

			Following this massacre, Ashington Manor's reputation as a damned location would be restored, though over the next few decades several foreigners would come to claim it only for the cycle to repeat itself. [[Jack Sallow]], a would be reformed [[bandit]] turned [[innkeeper]], operated the [[Jack and Queens]] inn, and [[Dr. Karl Ildgaard]], a callous and exploitative [[alienist]], operated the [[Ildygard Asylum]]. Both of these murderers would see their demise as part of the cyclical outbursts of violence. In every case, Maekon was there to incite the massacres, uncaring that she was being influenced by the stolen tarokka deck so long as her own needs were fulfilled.

			The breakout of violence during the Ildygard Asylum era saw the manor set ablaze and turned into a burnt husk, avoided by all save for bandits and wild beasts.
			==Current Conditions==
			In the latest and last cycle of the curse, a [[bandit leader]] named [[Dagger (The Curse of Ashington Manor)\|Dagger]], has recently settled into the manor ruins and using it as a secret base of operations. Dagger [[kidnapped]] a [[gimorgo]] girl named [[Miko]] to force her parents into providing regular [[food]] and support for his bandits.

			The building supernatural power of the curse has reached a zenith, to the point that space and time around the manor is coming apart at the seams. At the 85th anniversary of Rozaleen's death, Ashington Manor exists in a state of temporal flux as the mystical energies implode. The manor switches between the eras of its existence in phantom shifts akin to those of [[Castle Tristenoira]]. In the time shifts to other eras, the spirits of Lord Herod Ashington and his compatriots fuse with the guises of appropriate individuals from the other eras. Ultimately, should the curse not be broken, it will see the entire manor- and all individuals inhabiting it- be subsumed by the Mists.

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What remains of Ashington Manor is the burnout and rotting husk of what was once a stately manor for the [[Ashington family]]. An infamous landmark purported to be [[cursed]] and [[haunted]] in local folklore, only [[bandit]]s and wild beasts will willingly dwell in its walls now. [[The Curse of Ashington Manor (Tale)|The manor's legend]] is well-founded, for every 17 years the [[Ashington Curse]] ensures that a [[mass murder]] will be echoed on the manor's grounds. Every iteration of the mass murder is preserved in a time shift that changes the features of the manor in a manner similar to [[Castle Tristenoira]]. Thus, Ashington Manor exists during the periods of its time shifts as a [[temporal distortion]].

Ultimately, should the curse be allowed to come to full fruition, the manor will disappear entirely as it is engulfed by [[the Mists]].

==History==
===History Prior to the Ashington Curse===
The portrait gallery of Ashington Manor depicted a transition from the kinder generations of old to the cruelty of the younger generations. Elsewhere, in its library, four generations of Ashington Lords collected works of occult lore. The final lord to do so, [[Herod Ashington]], was the then current lord some eighty-five years ago. Although he was only a [[dabbler]] in black magic and not a true [[spellcaster]], Lord Herod was particularly knowledgeable in [[Vistani]] magic thanks to his friendship with a couple of [[darkling]]s.

A depraved and vile nobleman, Lord Herod held regular gatherings of debauchery and perversion with his fellow nobles at the manor. Sometimes unfortunate passersby were abducted as "guests" for the parties, and most of said guests lost their lives as "party favors". The Vistani girl, [[Rozaleen]], was one such victim, kidnapped by Lord Herod's cronies [[Rostoff]] and [[Hanford]].

===Rozaleen's Murder and Curse===
Although Rozaleen's kidnappers had taken her for purposes of sexual exploitation, Lord Herod recognized her abilities as a [[seer]] and [[fortune teller]] and demanded a night's entertainment with the reading of the [[tarokka]]. Having received an earlier premonition of ill omen, Rozaleen was nonetheless forced to give the readings for Herod and his guests, all echoing surmounting doom. Doubting the truthfulness of the foreboding readings despite the anxiety of his guests, Lord Herod threatened Rozaleen with her life to provide entertaining fortune telling instead of frightening. Rozaleen warned Herod that none of them should leave the manor grounds should she not be able to. Infuriated, Herod began strangling Rozaleen in the middle of her tarokka reading. Before she died, Rozaleen transformed her warning into a [[curse]]. That night was eight and half decades ago.

On the following evening, Lord Herod and his fellows gathered again at the manor. The mood of his guests was notably less happy than they were before the previous night's end. Egged on by the evil [[bard]] [[Maekon]], Lord Herod came to suspect his guests of harboring sympathies to the deceased Vistani girl. Consumed with rage over this perceived betrayal, Lord Herod slaughtered his guests down to the last man and woman, though his [[servant]]s fled the scene. Lord Herod lost his life to the death gaze of Maekon, whom was secretly one of the [[Vehrteig]]. Unaffected by Rozaleen's curse thanks to her nature, Maekon took [[Rozaleen's Tarokka Deck|Rozaleen's tarokka deck]] and left. Said tarokka deck was a highly powerful magical item that granted Rozaleen's curse such power that the cycle of murder and betrayal would happen again, albeit with different individuals and under different circumstances, upon the manor grounds once every 17 years on the anniversary of Rozaleen's murder.

===Subsequent Cycles===

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