House Edgewood
Planet Bain, Ephrasia:
Edgewood House is a grand 39th-century country house near Oldeston, Greenshire, Tel-Allal. Its park was laid out by Lewis Black, the Tel-Allalian landscape architect dubbed “Tal-Allal’s finest gardener.” He designed over 150 parks, many of which still endure.
The Edgewood House was built by order of Emperor Edwin I in 3897 for Lord Henry Edgewood, a general who participated (then as a Pal-Jalian captain) in returning the Pal-Jalian Dauphile family to the throne in the end of the 39th century (See Ephrasian Empire circa 986 A.D). Edgewood was given the title of Earl of Oldeston. The great house was subsequently the residence of Edwin’s descendants, marriage linking the two families, and now is currently run by Countess Gwendolyn Edgewood, a great grand niece of Edwin I and hereditary heiress as designated by letters patent 3896.
The house is noteworthy not only for its fine Norman architecture but for it symbolizing of—along with the construction of three other great houses in Tel-Allal—Pal-Jal’s return to power and the reunification of the kingdom. House Edgewood was often thought of as the house of the king’s enforcers, as the family generally stayed clear of local Tel-Allalian affairs, only serving as a reminder of the emperor’s supremacy as each member of the Edgewood family held high military positions and fought in numerous wars both planet-side and interplanetary.
Many sections of the famous house were rebuilt over the centuries, but the entrance tower—with its famed fan vaulted ceilings of azure and gold, ornate tracery, and pinnacles at each corner of the house—are the original and have only been minimally restored in keeping with family tradition.
