Spring Court Manor

Location from acotar-thorns-and-roses by

The sprawling, cursed estate of the Spring Court, where High Lord Tamlin rules behind an enchanted mask and his lands wither under an unspoken blight.

The Spring Court Manor is the seat of Tamlin's power, a place of beauty and decay, where the High Lord's curse has frozen his court in a perpetual revel of masked faces and silent feasts. The manor itself is a labyrinth of wings and towers, each room holding a memory of what was lost—and a hint of what might be reclaimed. It is both a prison and a sanctuary, a gilded cage for a mortal girl and a fortress against the blight that gnaws at its borders.

Appearance

A grand manor of pale stone and climbing ivy, surrounded by gardens that bloom in wild, desperate profusion—roses the size of a fist, wisteria dripping from every archway, fountains that sing even when no one is near. Inside, the halls are vast and cold, hung with tapestries of forgotten battles, and the air smells of wet earth and something ancient, something waiting.

Also known as: Tamlin's Manor, The Spring Court Estate, The Manor of Blossoms and Thorns, The Cursed House

What They Know

• The manor was built atop an old faerie mound, and its foundations are woven with the same magic that makes the land bloom—or wither, as it does now.
• Every member of the court wears a mask at all times, a condition of the curse that binds them, and the masks cannot be removed by any force but the breaking of the curse itself.
• The manor's gardens are enchanted to respond to Tamlin's mood: when he is angry, thorns sprout from the roses; when he despairs, the flowers wilt.
• The great hall contains a throne of woven branches and living wood, which grows and shifts with the seasons, though it has been dormant since the curse took hold.
• There is a hidden passage behind the library's fireplace that leads to a small, forgotten study where Tamlin keeps his most private correspondence and the only mirror in the manor that shows true reflections.
• The manor's wards prevent anyone from winnowing directly inside its walls; all arrivals must come through the main gate, which is watched by sentinel hounds of stone and shadow.

View full profile at Simulacra.Ink