Crown Street, at the edge of the Upper City District of Light Breeze Harbor, there lay a mansion shrouded in mystery at its deepest end—number 99 Crown Street.
This was a distinctive three-story building with a pointed roof that bore the strong architectural hallmarks of the northern City-States, in stark contrast to the elf-style houses commonly seen in Light Breeze Harbor. It featured a dark roof coupled with a striking white façade, and towering windows with intricate patterns and solemn lines. The mansion was flanked by spacious gardens that were quite rare in the City-State, planted with all sorts of bizarre plants and shrubs that nearly no one could name.
Many knew of the mansion's existence, yet almost no one knew its details, for its owner rarely appeared in public. On ordinary days, only a few silent servants tended the garden and the house, and when night fell, as the lights within the mansion lit up, some eerily terrifying shadows would appear in those lights—
