Black Lily’s Manor

At a glance

A well-appointed residence in Martira Bay’s affluent East District where Black Lily prepared the expedition to Castle Avernus.

Known facts

  • Dillo supplied the party with its address.
  • Black Lily opened the door almost immediately after Carver knocked.
  • Black Lily promised transportation to Castle Avernus and provided 40 gp for explosives here.
  • Carver detected an unidentified person upstairs radiating enchantment magic.
  • Ignatius found and read a letter from Darian sealed with a bloody thumbprint.
  • The letter contained general instructions concerning the securing of Neblus and zealots in Nevuchar Springs.
  • In Session 20, Black Lily admitted the party after they returned from Castle Avernus. The party killed him there.
  • The party found dark-magic tomes in his rooms.
  • Two horizontal wooden coffins in the attic released hostile tentacled, vampiric-looking aberrations, which the party destroyed. A third coffin stood upright; the notes do not record it being opened.

Open questions

  • Who was upstairs in the earlier visit, and why did that person radiate enchantment magic?
  • Is the residence Black Lily’s own property or a Kargatane safe house?
  • What was held in the upright attic coffin?
  • What do the dark-magic tomes reveal, and who now claims the manor?