Manor Mistmantle

Manor Mistmantle is the house of Stalvan Mistmantle in northeastern Duskwood, north of Darkshire and west of Beggar's Haunt. Its grounds are rotten and overrun by Stalvan's ghoulish servants. The only living thing left on the property is a single flower in the garden, the Tear of Tilloa.

Stalvan came from Silverpine Forest. He ran the schoolhouse in Moonbrook and worked as a tutor for the Flintridge family. He fell for one of his students, Tilloa, but she saw him only as her teacher, and her parents had already chosen her husband. Enraged, he turned to murder: he seems to have killed Tilloa and her groom-to-be, and perhaps her whole family.

He then went back to the manor and shut himself away until the darkness consumed him, and in time he became one of the undead. He still haunts the manor and attacks anyone who comes near.

Madame Eva of Darkshire sensed the danger and set adventurers on Stalvan's trail. When the trail ends, Commander Althea Ebonlocke sends them to his cottage just north of Darkshire to execute him and then to show his family ring to Madame Eva.