Location from Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
A museum-fortress filled with stolen masterpieces — every wing designed to make visitors ache for what they cannot have.
House Envy is designed to make you want things you didn't know you wanted. Every room is a curated experience — you turn a corner and find a painting so beautiful it stops your breath, or a sculpture so perfect you feel your own inadequacy as a physical sensation. This is not accidental. Envy's court is a machine for generating covetousness, and every stolen masterpiece on the wall is a reminder that someone else had this, and now Envy does, and you don't. The atmosphere is quieter than the other courts — contemplative, almost reverent — but there's an edge to it, a competitive tension that permeates every interaction. Courtiers here are constantly measuring themselves against each other, and the prince encourages it. Envy's is the court where you feel most keenly the distance between what you have and what you could have, and it is exhausting and addictive in equal measure.
Crafted to give the feel of a grand museum, with each wing and level featuring a different artistic medium — paintings in one gallery, sculptures in another, tapestries in a third. Hunter green marble floors span a cathedral-like throne room with matching columns flanking a long central aisle. The House colors are green and silver, and the symbol of the two-headed wolf appears throughout. The entire castle is filled with beautiful works of art, many stolen from other courts and realms, each positioned to maximize the viewer's desire to possess it.
Also known as: Envy's court, the museum-fortress