The Great Lake

The Great Lake is a Fansus location accessible from the Silver Door.

Description

A deep, wide lake with opalescent water beyond the Silver Door, brimming with strange creatures created through the Caladrius's experiments. These plants and animals can be found nowhere outside the House, and occasionally some of the stranger Histories. On a swampy island in the center, the Caladrius dwells in a hospital-laboratory.

Events

• In my dreams tonight, I walked past the Silver Door into the deep, peaceful lake. There are marshlands surrounding it, rife with alien life, and in those I saw a white-robed servant of the Caladrius, in a bird-mask of leather, surrounded by those Dead that feel that rebirth in servitude is preferable to their condition. They gathered around them like mist, desperate, and they touched each one with their gloved hands, making them into the Cured that serve the Caladrius and its Names for menial tasks. The newly-Cured did not weep, for their eyes had no means to produce tears.
  • Gives: Trembling Airs

• This time in the swampy wilds around the great lake behind the Silver Door, I saw the creatures the Caladrius makes, trying to create animals and plants that can understand the miracle of life. There were creatures that ate meat that grew in great tumors on their paws that they then chewed off, creatures covered in barbed armor, creatures who looked like plants and absorbed the blue light of the Mansus but walked on two legs. When I felt a nearby vine's brambles starting to push under my skin of their own accord, I decided to retreat.
  • Gives: A Rattling in the Soul

• I was in a different place in that great lake this time. The water was a frozen sheet, and beneath it, like a mounted display in a glass case, I saw creatures from strange Histories, that I never knew to exist to go extinct, frozen beneath that ice-some mammoth, some tiny. It was a suspension, for those who could not yet be treated-to freeze them until they can be. They moved slightly, for ice under the power of Heart is not truly ice, and feels the currents and the beat that water might. I watched them for a while.
  • Gives: A Chilly Atmosphere