Locations/TheSilverTrial

The Silver Trial

On the maps of the Southern Guildsmen, there are few places that are marked as impassable, as there is always someone willing to try and forge a new route. This Manse, however is one of those places; a place that no Guildsman, no matter how brave, is able to enter and come out alive.

Built on the ruins of a great Water Manse of the First Age, it was constructed after the treacherous Sidereals came after its Solar master, and his Lunar mate. Many Dragon-Blooded died advancing on the couple, but a Sidereal trick turned the Solar’s power against him and shattered both him and the Manse, leaving his mate in agonized insanity. She poured both her own blood and the blood of her enemies into the vast pools that fed the Manse, along with her madness, crafting a new Manse over the centuries to allow her to guard her mate’s grave. To this day, she still guards the site, fighting on against long-dead foes despite her crippled state.

The Manse itself is a perfectly circular lake of boiling liquid silver two miles in diameter (treat as acid bath), dotted with claw-shaped pillars of ivory. A small glass dome sits in the middle of the lake, housing the hearthstone that reflects its creator’s pain. The moon always appears to be dripping with blood from this dome. Anyone who attunes to the Manse must immediately make a Willpower roll at difficulty 2, or gain a derangement of the Storyteller's choice.

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