**Return to Metivier Manor**

Metivier Manor sits among the other grand estates along the city walls on the South Hill. The structure is almost entirely made of stone and was designed at a grand scale to show off the wealth of the Metivier family – twenty-foot ceilings, wide passages, and rooms that seem almost cavernous around their furnishings. The structure is nigh impossible to keep warm in the colder months, even with fires roaring in all three fireplaces; it seems damp, cold, and uninviting.

The ground floor of the structure is almost entirely centred around entertaining guests with a grand ballroom, a massive outdoor stone terrace, and the great hall that dwarfs the twenty-foot-long table within it. On the south side we have a sitting room on the right, and a more “serious” entertaining space on the left that is used to greet visitors here on business (along with a small ‘snug’ beside it when a table is needed for drawing up plans and so on.

The upstairs is split into two sections, each with its own stairwell. The staff stay on the northeast side of the structure with a ‘secret’ door between their rooms and the side room of the master suite. In addition to the three-room master suite, there is a secondary sitting room, three additional bedrooms, and the children’s room / nursery on the southeast side (as far from the master suite as possible while on the same floor).

The basement is accessed by a second secret door underneath the main stairwell. That leads to the main basement that is used primarily to store old and extra furniture. A massive wine cellar sits to the east and a cold room to the south. A small secret chamber attached to the wine cellar is where the more exotic vintages are kept. Finally, of course, there are the family crypts to the west – first a chamber of family records and then the cold, raw stone crypts themselves of the original residents of the building. Later family members are interred more traditionally in the city graveyard.

*This map is a bit of a flashback, originally it was drawn over a decade ago as one of the early commercially-licensed maps on the blog. I joked at the time about how many requests I get for houses, manors, and other “normal” structures – the kind of thing you can get books of floorplans for. But I am nothing if not persuadable, so this is my manor. There are many like it, but this one is mine. (And it has a dungeon and secret crypt in the basement because… because it is mine).*

*This has been redrawn for an upcoming book from Sly Flourish – I’m not sure when it is coming out, but I’ll post about it when it does.*

*The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 15,000 x 10,200 pixels (50 x 34 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the 10‘ foot squares that work with the furnishings as shown) – so resizing the image to 3,500 x 2,380 pixels or 7,000 x 4,760 pixels, respectively.*

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