Seni Manse - Revision history

Madamebadger at 21:11, 21 July 2022

2022-07-21T21:11:15Z

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	==People==		==People==
	* [[Saressa Afen Seni \|Saressa]] (works in the kitchen)		* [[List of Minor or Background Characters \|Saressa Afen Seni \|Saressa]] (works in the kitchen)
	* Taran, a footman		* Taran, a footman
	* Tharel, the underbutler (he guided Sediryl from the front door to the kitchen).<ref name="mp-cr">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]]'', "Courting Rights"</ref>. An Eldritch underbutler generally serves after hours.		* Tharel, the underbutler (he guided Sediryl from the front door to the kitchen).<ref name="mp-cr">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]]'', "Courting Rights"</ref>. An Eldritch underbutler generally serves after hours.

Jaguar at 15:26, 1 July 2022

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 ====Receiving Rooms====
 * a pretty chamber facing the east, with lavender wallpaper and a pedal harp, with furniture with embroidered cushions (Jeasa likes this one) <ref name="fc-01">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) | Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 1</ref>
 ===Other Floors (Maybe?)===

47.206.107.29 at 13:31, 10 December 2021

2021-12-10T13:31:47Z

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	====The Lunar====		====The Lunar====
	Top floor, northern side. Has a windowseat. Jeasa's favorite place to read novels that are not improving.		Top floor, northern side. Has a windowseat. Jeasa's favorite place to read novels that are not improving.

			==Customs==
			===Holidays===
			* '''End of Year''': For the year's end holidays, the manor is decorated in fir boughs, lining the halls and the mantels alongside swags of white velvet, and gold cords and tassels. Glass stars (as old as Jahir, at least) are hung from those boughs, and painted glass berries set among the greenery. There are candles in every window (cream-colored, sweet-scented, freshly poured for the occasion). The Seni Firebowl is set in the front hall, and there's a carved wooden column next to it that's finished by a square marble slab the width of Jahir's fist. "The lady of the house, by tradition, set the stand beside the firebowl only on years where there would be an unclaimed cup. Jahir had rarely seen it until his father's death. Afterwards, it had become a fixture of the season."<ref name="ln" />

	==People==		==People==

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2021-08-06T16:48:53Z

People

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	* [[Saressa Afen Seni \|Saressa]] (works in the kitchen)		* [[Saressa Afen Seni \|Saressa]] (works in the kitchen)
	* Taran, a footman		* Taran, a footman
	* Tharel (he guided Sediryl from the front door to the kitchen~~, so he's either a butler or a footman~~).<ref name="mp-cr">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]]'', "Courting Rights"</ref>		* Tharel, the underbutler (he guided Sediryl from the front door to the kitchen).<ref name="mp-cr">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]]'', "Courting Rights"</ref>. An Eldritch underbutler generally serves after hours.
	* [[Seni_(Eldritch_Family)\|Seni family]]		* [[Seni_(Eldritch_Family)\|Seni family]]

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2021-08-04T18:42:30Z

People

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	==People==		==People==
	* [[Saressa Afen Seni \|Saressa]] (works in the kitchen)		* [[Saressa Afen Seni \|Saressa]] (works in the kitchen)
			* Taran, a footman
	* Tharel (he guided Sediryl from the front door to the kitchen, so he's either a butler or a footman).<ref name="mp-cr">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]]'', "Courting Rights"</ref>		* Tharel (he guided Sediryl from the front door to the kitchen, so he's either a butler or a footman).<ref name="mp-cr">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]]'', "Courting Rights"</ref>
	* [[Seni_(Eldritch_Family)\|Seni family]]		* [[Seni_(Eldritch_Family)\|Seni family]]

98.114.199.53: Grounds: found the bit about the predator-repellant posts

2021-04-15T18:09:02Z

Grounds: found the bit about the predator-repellant posts

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	===Back===		===Back===
	The back door is in or near the kitchen, and opens onto the back lawn, facing untamed forest. <ref name="ln">[[Longest Night (Fiction) \| "Longest Night"]]</ref> Somewhere in that forest, "the bridge leading over the brook was something out of a fairy tale, with its mossy stones and lanterns." <ref name="fc-01" /> The path to [[Ingleside]] leads from the back lawn through the forest. <ref name="fh-04">''[[Fathers' Honor (Fiction) \| Fathers' Honor]]'', chapter 4</ref>		The back door is in or near the kitchen, and opens onto the back lawn, facing untamed forest. <ref name="ln">[[Longest Night (Fiction) \| "Longest Night"]]</ref> Somewhere in that forest, "the bridge leading over the brook was something out of a fairy tale, with its mossy stones and lanterns." <ref name="fc-01" /> The path to [[Ingleside]] leads from the back lawn through the forest. <ref name="fh-04">''[[Fathers' Honor (Fiction) \| Fathers' Honor]]'', chapter 4</ref> It is lined with warm-toned pin lights, along with discrete posts that emit a field that drives away predators (or at least on other worlds, it does). <ref>''[[Heartskein (Fiction) \|Heartskein]]'', chapter 1</ref>

	See also [[Seni (Eldritch Family)]] (there's a map).		See also [[Seni (Eldritch Family)]] (there's a map).

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Jeasa's suite

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	====Jeasa's suite====		====Jeasa's suite====
			The master suite at Seni opens from a broad hall into a spacious bedchamber. There is a chaise longue placed beside the window. Jeasa keeps her jewelry in a velvet box on the dresser. There is a bench in front of the dresser. <ref name="fc-01" />

	====The Solar====		====The Solar====

98.114.199.53: finally found the bit about Vasiht'h's giant dogbed (thank you, madamebadger!)

2021-03-26T22:51:26Z

finally found the bit about Vasiht'h's giant dogbed (thank you, madamebadger!)

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	===Other Floors (Maybe?)===		===Other Floors (Maybe?)===
	====The Library====		====The Library====
	Overlooks the back of the estate, with a chimney rising between two long windows with matching window seats. Warm auburn wood shelving, brighter rugs and furnishing, cushions on the chair are a sunny gold worked with cream and apricot-colored floss. The edge of one of the rugs is stained from a dropped glass of juice had never quite come up (Amber's doing). Jeasa hid that edge under the table's shadowed corner. <ref name="hw-04">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]',' Chapter 4</ref>		Overlooks the back of the estate, with a chimney rising between two long windows with matching window seats. Warm auburn wood shelving, brighter rugs and furnishing, cushions on the chair are a sunny gold worked with cream and apricot-colored floss. The edge of one of the rugs is stained from a dropped glass of juice had never quite come up (Amber's doing). Jeasa hid that edge under the table's shadowed corner. <ref name="hw-04">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 4</ref>

	====The Study====		====The Study====
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	====Jahir's suite====		====Jahir's suite====
	Several flights of stairs, and half the house away from the kitchen. <ref name="hw-06">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]',' Chapter 6</ref> Across the hall from Amber's rooms. <ref name="fc-02">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \| Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 2</ref>		Several flights of stairs, and half the house away from the kitchen. <ref name="hw-06">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]'', Chapter 6</ref> Across the hall from Amber's rooms. <ref name="fc-02">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \| Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 2</ref>

	It has a parlor, a bedroom, a study, and a bath. The parlor and bedroom share a fireplace, the study is lined with books, and there is a harpsichord and a jeweled orrery in the parlor. All of the rooms are hung with tapestries and paintings, many featuring horses, and the floors are covered in silken rugs. The bed is huge and curtained, with brocade covers and mounds of pillows, and there is a stepstool for it painted with flowers and leafed in silver. The windows are stained glass. <ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) \| Family]]''</ref>		It has a parlor, a bedroom, a study, and a bath. The parlor and bedroom share a fireplace, the study is lined with books, and there is a harpsichord and a jeweled orrery in the parlor. All of the rooms are hung with tapestries and paintings, many featuring horses, and the floors are covered in silken rugs. The bed is huge and curtained, with brocade covers and mounds of pillows, and there is a stepstool for it painted with flowers and leafed in silver. The windows are stained glass. <ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) \| Family]]''</ref> There is now a low corral of pillows in the bedchamber, with wooden edges carved with birds in flight and stars. The pillows are large and soft, in deep green and slate blue. <ref name="mp-mo-02" />

	====Jeasa's suite====		====Jeasa's suite====

98.114.199.53: more descriptions

2021-03-26T20:37:17Z

more descriptions

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	“In sooth, my love, look at the size of this manse. It’s ridiculous that for years I have been the only one residing on four floors and three wings—it belongs more to the servants than to the family, for more of them dwell in it…! Even when all four of us lived here, it was still too much. A place like this begs to be an administrative center, not a personal house. Or if it is a personal house, it should have far more persons in it.” [[Jeasa Seni Galare]], to [[Jahir]], about the size of the Seni Manse. <ref name="mp-mo-02">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]],'' "Moving Out," Chapter 2</ref>		“In sooth, my love, look at the size of this manse. It’s ridiculous that for years I have been the only one residing on four floors and three wings—it belongs more to the servants than to the family, for more of them dwell in it…! Even when all four of us lived here, it was still too much. A place like this begs to be an administrative center, not a personal house. Or if it is a personal house, it should have far more persons in it.” [[Jeasa Seni Galare]], to [[Jahir]], about the size of the Seni Manse. <ref name="mp-mo-02">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) \| Major Pieces]],'' "Moving Out," Chapter 2</ref>

			==Building==
			The multi-winged house is pale stone carved with columns and pilasters and cartouches. <ref name="fh-04" /> Vasiht'h described it as a stately pile of gray and pale stone, encrusted with statues and columns and friezes that would have been utterly overwhelming if they were any color other than white. From a distance, it reminded him of an extremely expensive wedding cake. <ref name="fam" />

			Inside, the manse has broad stone halls with niches for marble busts or floral arrangements. The floors are covered in sound-muffling carpet, and there are arrases, paintings, and vases, high ceilings with painted murals, chandeliers with candles, and carved banisters on stone staircases. <ref name="fh-04" />

	==Grounds==		==Grounds==
	"The gardens landscaped around the manse pretended to convention and succeeded in fooling the incurious observer... but pressing past them into the fields surrounding the estate, one found riches, wild and lovely and untrammeled. Everywhere the eye roved, it found a darling glade, a breathtaking copse, a picturesque stand of trees or a storybook rill. [~~Unlike Imthereli, where chimera and basilisk lairs had been taken over by boar and bear,~~] Seni was unicorn country." <ref name="fc-01" />		"The gardens landscaped around the manse pretended to convention and succeeded in fooling the incurious observer... but pressing past them into the fields surrounding the estate, one found riches, wild and lovely and untrammeled. Everywhere the eye roved, it found a darling glade, a breathtaking copse, a picturesque stand of trees or a storybook rill. [...] Seni was unicorn country." <ref name="fc-01" />

	"The ~~bridge~~ leading ~~over~~ the ~~brook was something out~~ of a ~~fairy tale~~, ~~with its mossy stones and lanterns~~." <ref name="~~fc-01~~" />		===Front===
			The front of the house is approached by a path leading between topiaries and waist-height hedge mazes, with ornamental gardens at the end of the path near the house. The gardens involve lawns, large enough for several ladies in voluminous skirts to sit, thoroughly socially distanced from their attendant lords, and there is a fence that said ladies can lean on. There is a fountain in the courtyard, from which broad, shallow steps lead to the front door, which is wide enough for five Vasiht'hs abreast. <ref name="fam" />

	~~There~~'s a ~~back lawn~~. ("~~Longest Night~~")		The Seni Pad is in a folly on the grounds. It's a single-person model, so it's closer to the house than the Pad at Laisrathera; it is guarded by Pelted in Galare livery. <ref name="hw-09">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \| Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 9</ref>

	~~Any other data I have about~~ the forest ~~around here~~. ~~Maybe~~ the path ~~leading~~ to [[Ingleside]]?		===Back===
			The back door is in or near the kitchen, and opens onto the back lawn, facing untamed forest. <ref name="ln">[[Longest Night (Fiction) \| "Longest Night"]]</ref> Somewhere in that forest, "the bridge leading over the brook was something out of a fairy tale, with its mossy stones and lanterns." <ref name="fc-01" /> The path to [[Ingleside]] leads from the back lawn through the forest. <ref name="fh-04">''[[Fathers' Honor (Fiction) \| Fathers' Honor]]'', chapter 4</ref>

	~~Or maybe all that goes in the territory section of the~~ Seni ~~Fmaily page? No, I think that needs to be more general, for the entire province~~.		See also [[Seni (Eldritch Family)]] (there's a map).

	==Rooms in the Manse==		==Rooms in the Manse==
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	====Front Hall====		====Front Hall====
	====Kitchen====		====Kitchen====
			The kitchen is very large, with big hearths, several counters, a central island, and two separate areas with tables. <ref name="fh-04" />
	====Receiving Rooms====		====Receiving Rooms====
	* a pretty chamber facing the east, with lavender wallpaper and a pedal harp, with furniture with embroidered cushions (Jeasa likes this one) <ref name="fc-01">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \| Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 1</ref>		* a pretty chamber facing the east, with lavender wallpaper and a pedal harp, with furniture with embroidered cushions (Jeasa likes this one) <ref name="fc-01">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \| Farmer's Crown]],'' Chapter 1</ref>
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	A gracious rectangular room with great windows paneled in clear beveled glass, its stone walls faced with pale wood, with large green carpets on the floor. Musical instruments are scattered throughout: a harp taller than Vasiht'h, a keyboard instrument, four various string instruments hanging on wall brackets. There are elegant upholstered chairs. <ref name="fam" />		A gracious rectangular room with great windows paneled in clear beveled glass, its stone walls faced with pale wood, with large green carpets on the floor. Musical instruments are scattered throughout: a harp taller than Vasiht'h, a keyboard instrument, four various string instruments hanging on wall brackets. There are elegant upholstered chairs. <ref name="fam" />

			The door to the solar is wooden, a good ten feet tall, and carved, painted, and gilt, with a Rococo door handle that looks more like a work of art than a functional object. <ref name="fh-04" />

	====The Lunar====		====The Lunar====

98.114.199.53 at 17:34, 26 March 2021

2021-03-26T17:34:25Z

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	==Grounds==		==Grounds==
	"The gardens landscaped around the manse pretended to convention and succeeded in fooling the incurious observer... but pressing past them into the fields surrounding the estate, one found riches, wild and lovely and untrammeled. Everywhere the eye roved, it found a darling glade, a breathtaking copse, a picturesque stand of trees or a storybook rill. [Unlike Imthereli, where chimera and basilisk lairs had been taken over by boar and bear,] Seni was unicorn country." <ref name="fc-01"~~>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \| Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 1<~~/~~ref~~>		"The gardens landscaped around the manse pretended to convention and succeeded in fooling the incurious observer... but pressing past them into the fields surrounding the estate, one found riches, wild and lovely and untrammeled. Everywhere the eye roved, it found a darling glade, a breathtaking copse, a picturesque stand of trees or a storybook rill. [Unlike Imthereli, where chimera and basilisk lairs had been taken over by boar and bear,] Seni was unicorn country." <ref name="fc-01" />

	"The bridge leading over the brook was something out of a fairy tale, with its mossy stones and lanterns." <ref name="fc-01" />		"The bridge leading over the brook was something out of a fairy tale, with its mossy stones and lanterns." <ref name="fc-01" />