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Welcome to Dark Liquid Manor.
Angelic.
Demonic.
Vampiric.
Deep below the manor lays the catacombs. Here the beloved dead lay in family tombs and shrines.
Within the darkness and passage ways the hooded minions stay, kept hidden and away from anyone who might venture in.
Beautifully clad in marble and ivory, the stables shine against the green landscape.
For all it's beauty, the stables are hidden, they hold more common, human realm animals.
Tigers, Jaguars, bears, giant snakes, butterflies and birds from all over the world.
Because they do come from the human world they are more delicate and special care is taken to keep them safe.
The courtyard is a series of gardens and fountains that lead down into the wooded and watered areas of the estate.
The trail that leads to the stables can be found here.
This is the view that can be seen from any window on the north side of the castle, but sadly because of the common dragon sightings and close calls, the north side is rarely used by anyone but Angelic.
The view from the south is the more commonly seen, since it's the side most used.
The mist always begin rolling in at around midnight, lasting until dawn unless it's a rainy type of day then they tend to stay for what seems like forever.
The ice caps from the mountains feed the waterfall that comes into the spring, keeping everything clean and glittering softly.
At dawn the morning light comes through the trees and for all the darkness and shadows, you can see why those who live here, truly find it magical.
The coloring in the leaves and the misty weather give the light its bright colors.
Wood nymphs and the other creatures that gather at the waters spend the rest of their days and nights deep in the woods, where the tree roots are larger then men and intertwine until the ground can no longer be seen.
If someone ever manages to get close, it is a beautiful sight.
They really do look more appealing in the day light, but it doesn't stay light long enough here to truly attempt exploring them if you are an outsider.
Not far away from the castle, in the waters where the mermaids reside.
Nymphs and fairies and other small mischievous beings gather at dusk before the family becomes active.
The grounds are removed from the normal paths and cycles of the moon, the planets and time. As a result the moon is always full above the land and low on the horizon.
The pictures and paintings below are examples of the beings that inhabit these lands and there shadows.
This portal lays deep below the manor it's self, deeper then even the catacombs.
It is the means to which all the time warps and other portals between worlds function.
The unicorn has been the subject of wonder and speculation for centuries among human kind. The writings of such men as Aristotle, Genghis Khan, Saint Thomas and Saint Gregory, however, reflect the fact that these men considered the unicorn a very real creature.
Here, safe from the mortal world, the last remaining true unicorns live deep in the forests, where none but the welcomed and worthy may travel.
In medieval legend a succubus is a female demon that seduces men in there dreams. They draw energy from the men to sustain themselves often until the point of exhaustion or death of the victim.
Needless to say, avoid them. They will seduce any male that they find alone.
For all their danger and disregard for Angelic's authority, she is extremely fond of them.
She use to go through husbands rather quickly, they helped her to rid of them.
Pegasus, the winged horse born when the blood spilled from the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa, who was pregnant by the sea god Poseidon at the time.
He was another rare being that was put into the safe keeping of the family after the fall of the Greek gods.
Eagles have taken to the cliff sides in the past centuries. As beautiful as they appear they are not ordinary birds. They have an origin deeply entangled with Angelic's.
Once she was a warrior, a murdering Queen. These eagles where her spies and they delivered death to traitors of her crown. Now they are protectors of her kindred and the watchers.
Dragons dwell in the mountains that surround the land, many different species have learned to live close to one another and there are rarely, if ever, any problems among them.
Though they have no problems with each other, during the seasons when they breed and nest, only Angelic is allowed into the mountains.
This is a law set by the dragons themselves.
Cerberus was the watchdog of the Greek underworld and faithful servant to Hades. He was charged with the job of devouring anyone trying to return to the land of the living and refused living humans entrance.
With the sudden decline of the Greek empire and weakening of their gods, Hades sent Cerberus to Angelic, as a gift of sorts to be kept in her protection. Since the goddess had always worked closely with the aging gods.
Cerberus now lives and roams the grounds as he pleases.
They are not as they appear in story books.
Dazzling and inviting with sparking eyes and musically charming voices, they are sirens with fins. Seductive and evil to the last scale.
A deal was struck eons ago, when the first humans went into the waters, the mermaids and there kin would live in peace here in the waters of Dark Liquid and have the unfortunate souls that went into the waters, as long as the family went unharmed.
Every culture knows of them, and the werewolves are probably the only creatures here who are not here of their own free will. Like Zeus did to the Titans, the werewolves were locked here as punishment for the crimes they committed.
Not human but not animal they are outcasted and forced to stay in the deepest parts of the forests.
They do not obey Angelic and thus are listed hostile.
