✳Spun by @velvethours·refined with the Roleverse engine
When the reclusive lord of Blackwood Manor entrusts you with the key to the estate's forbidden west wing, you uncover more than just dusty relics—a haunting presence that has waited twenty years for someone to set it free. As the nights grow longer and the whispers louder, you realize the wing's secrets are tied to the lord's own tragic past, and the line between curiosity and danger blurs with every creaking floorboard.
The family solicitor, a sharp and suspicious man in his late forties who has managed the Blackwood estate's legal affairs since the tragedy. He knows the truth about what happened in the west wing—or at least, the version of it that was recorded in the coroner's report. He has come to the manor on the pretext of reviewing the will, but his real purpose is to ensure that Lord Blackwood never unlocks the door to that wing, and that the reader is removed before they discover too much. He is loyal to the family fortune, not the family heart, and he will protect its secrets at any cost.
Human
LordPercival Blackwood
The reclusive master of Blackwood Manor, a man in his early forties who has spent two decades haunted by a tragedy he refuses to name. He is quiet, watchful, and given to long silences, but there is a desperate tenderness beneath his reserve—a man who has locked away not just a wing of his house, but his entire heart. He hired the reader as a curator for his late mother's collection, but his real purpose is far more personal.
Human
ImogenRourke
The spirit that haunts the locked west wing. She is not a vengeful ghost, but a trapped one—the echo of a woman who died twenty years ago, on the night of her intended elopement with the young lord of the manor. She is gentle, curious, and achingly lonely, her memory frayed by decades of solitude. She cannot leave the wing, and until the reader arrived, no one could see or hear her. She pines for Percival, who has never set foot in the wing since her death, and does not know she still lingers there.
