4826 Maple Dew

4826 Maple Dew, not to be confused with the nearby Maple Dew Lane or Maple Dew Court, is the address in the north-western quadrant of New Arindell, and eventual home of Scarlet Jusenkyou. It was acquired in N.D. 501 by Royland and Annaria Jusenkyou, who purchased a lien on it to gain legal ownership since the exact nature of of the deed was a bit murky. The house was in need of much work, which Roy bartered for mostly using his fanancial know-how. Scarlet was two years old when the family moved in, and has no memory of ever living anywhere else.

History

Despite it's presence on a common suburban lot in a well-defined neighborhood, 4826 Maple Dew has quite a fabulous history of which it's later occupants knew nothing about. The home, or at least parts of it, date clear back to the Age of the Dragon when the first building was constructed on the site. This was a three-story, heavy-duty brick edifice, designed to appear on the outside as a mid-range mansion, while the inside was constructed more as a fortress. It was made on the order of the Paladins, who had it linked to the network of tunnels that ran beneath the city. It was part of a series of in-depth defenses built around Valley Gail Keep, and intended as a staging area for a possible battle to be fought over the city of Arindell.

Through the Long Night, it was alternately used as a guard post and cache for the Library of Arindell, with controll passed between Paladins, Rangers, and eventually the Craftsmen who watched over the valley. Eventually it was mostly buried in a series of mudslides. Only the top floor remained visible, but the insides were kept clear to provide valuable access to the tunnel system. The upper floor was used as an observation post, as it had a good view of the valley floor but looked like any other innocuous scrap of ruins.

Later in the Long Night era as the counters of the valley changed, it's use as an observation hut was rendered nill, and the top floor was painstakingly demolished. It had stood up so well that it appeared to be an anomaly, a single standing building in a long-ruined valley. The top floor was destroyed to give it a much better "ruined" look, and it remained in service as an entry and exist point.