Estate of Unrest

This large abandoned mansion built on a high bluff overlooking the murky waters of Dagnor's Cauldron is obviously of human construction. The mansion rests in the center of a large plot of land surrounded by a high, but crumbling, stone wall. Rumors are that the mansion is haunted by the powerful ghost of a dwarf named Garanel Rucksif who went mad and killed the inhabitants, a human priest of Quellious and his family.

Garanel murdered the family inside the mansion's temple, dedicated to Quellious. As a result, when he died, Quellious cursed his ghost to spend eternity existing in the pain he inflicted upon his innocent victims. As time passed, the powers of Garanel's ghost grew, as did his maddened thirst for blood and murder. The spirits of unfortunate adventurers who met their demise at Garanel's hands were revived as his mindless, undead servants.

Eventually the rumors of this haunted establishment reached the ears of a powerful erudite priest of The Faceless whose name has been lost to history. This priest entered the Estate of Unrest without fear and confronted Garanel, who immediately attempted to slay the mortal intruder. The priest was able to subdue Garanel's ghost, threatening to destroy him for eternity.

The thought of being vanquished entirely into the eternal blackness of non-existence drove Garanel to strike a bargain with his would-be killer. The priest, amused and wholly fascinated with Garanel's being and his tale, thought this the perfect opportunity to exploit the creation of his deity's divine opposition.

The priest spent several days in prayer and eventually awoke the corpses of the human priest and his wife. For weeks the priest of fear tended to their bodies, restoring the appearance of life in their decayed corpses. He dissected each body in turn, stripping flesh from bone and removing their organs. When he was done with the dissections, the priest invoked the power of The Faceless and sacrificed himself to forever pervert Quellious' doing.

With the power of the priest's final spell, each piece of dissected flesh grew and mutated into a full body, infused with the couples' spirits, stolen from Quellious and siphoned through the power of The Faceless. Garanel's curse remains intact, but the taint of The Faceless, made possible by the priest's self sacrifice, strengthened Garanel's power and hold upon the estate, now forever polluted by Quellious' cherished followers, now undead and in eternal pain.