#151 Ogrebone Manor

Age: 200 years

Hidden or Lost?: Abandoned

History: Even the most hardwon trophies come with a price, and sometimes the cost is higher than anyone could imagine.

Ogrebone Manor was once a filigreed jewel of a palace, home to the beautiful and mannered Prince Ulgren. Suitors from every country in the known world traveled to Ulgren Palace, burdened with increasingly elaborate gifts, in the hopes that the prince might finally choose a royal house to join with. Some powerful weapons, cannons that fired living stones and swords that could detect lies; others brought statues and artworks that had brought kings to their knees; still others contributed to a growing menagerie of rare and dangerous creatures ranging from flaming skulls to deadly clown slimes. But Ulgren spat on them all.

That is until a fur-clad hunter from the Veldt Nomads arrived, bearing a crude and fearful gift: the freshly bleached skull of Kudgul, the Ogre-Father. The cunning hunter had discovered that Ulgren was the last of his family line. His father, mother, and siblings, having been murdered by Kudgul when Ulgren was just a baby. The prince hung Kudgul’s skull over the fireplace in the grand Hall and agreed to marry the hunter.

On their wedding day Kudgul had his revenge. Thanks to a curse the ancient ogre had his warlock place over him in life, Kudgul was able to live on past his death should revenge ever cut him down. Kudgul’s ghost issued forth from the open jaws of his own skull. The inhuman phantom raged through the palace, indiscriminately murdering the assembled nobles, and ruining the prince’s wedding day. When Kudgul found the prince and the hunter, he cursed them just as he had been cursed, before killing the pair and imprisoning their spirits in the lightless sellers of the palace.

After the Ulgren wedding massacre Kudgul, now bound to the manner, turned it into a house of horrors. The Ogre-Father released the prince’s rare menagerie, allowing some of the deadly creatures to roost in the filth-strewn chambers.

For almost two centuries Kudgul has continued to haunt the crumbling palace now known as Ogrebone Manor. He continues to tempt hopeless souls to take his skull from the mantle and deliver it to one who might resurrect him in full. But Kudgul is happy to terrorize and murder those who won’t.