Tome Archivus

TOME ARCHIVUS

BRIARHOLLOW MANOR | DATE EVERYTHING

Nestled in the idyllic English countryside, Briarhollow Manor is a romantic Victorian manor built like a work of art. With its ivy-cloaked spires, creaking gables, and a singular, looming tower that reaches up toward the typically-overcast skies, the house is both magnificent and gloomy. Within its creaking halls and candlelit libraries, something powerful and curious stirs: the objects are alive. Each item in Briarhollow is more than it seems, personified by powerful enchantments, their forms shifting into hauntingly beautiful beings shaped by the desires, memories, and mysteries tied to their use. These objects can take on a humanoid form any time they please, completing their tasks and maintaining life and personalities all their own.

At the heart of it all is the elusive master spellcaster, known as the Arcanist—something like a caretaker or a God—whose magic pulses through the bones of the house like lifeblood. Their power breathes life into every enchanted soulbound object, binding the inhabitants of Briarhollow to a single truth: their existence depends on the magic that sustains them. The objects mostly come to life at night, while their patron sleeps and they have free roam of the house, though they're take their forms during the day as needed to serve their patron. Some have tasks, still, to complete, some simply enjoy the freedom of life, and others wonder what it might be like to become properly alive, to live their own lives outside of the iron fences and thick hedges that mark the perimeter of Briarhollow. This is the line they may never cross, for doing so would turn them back into an ordinary object, where they'd clatter to the dust and their souls would be returned to the Arcanist.

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Tome Archivus is a, well, a tome in the Arcanist's study. He's just had a rather nice evening with a gilded mirror, but you're sure to be an intriguing distraction

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