User:Zone Descriptions Project/Eldenal's Mansion

Eldenal’s Mansion is the home of the Elthannar family, today a vampire family, victims of a deadly curse. Only the most courageous adventurers dare to enter here.

The mansion is a maze built for defense, with several complicated traps, inhabited by the different members of the family and their servants. Below the Mansion lies the catacomb of the family, guarded by powerful undead creatures.

The Elthannar family has lived in their mansion since before the time of the High Kings. In fact, the first High King, Erandus Elthannar, was a member of this family.

During the golden age of mankind, the Elthannars produced two further dynasties of High Kings. The last of these dynasties fell in 47 BF during the reign of Eldenal Elthannar, for whom the mansion is still named. The fall of this dynasty was a two-pronged attack from a siege by Iksar and Dark Elven armies from without and a betrayal within by Tarlisha Elthannar. While all of Eldenal Elthannar's part of the family was killed, it is believed that some survivors from the other branch of the family fled back to their ancestral home, escaping when Highkeep was razed.