Dark Mansion

Dark Mansion

Eudora Addams, Fester Addams, Gomez Addams, Morticia Addams, Wednesday Addams, Pugsley Addams, Pubert Addams, Lurch (Current Residents)

## History

### Overview

Similar to the House of Secrets and House of Mystery, the Dark Mansion adjoins a cemetery. When it materializes on Earth or another location in the material realm, the Dark Mansion's cemetery sometimes composites itself with an existing cemetery. A road leading to the manor and its cemetery will also accompany the presence of the Nightmare House. The road is labeled as Cemetery Lane, giving the house the address 1313 Cemetery Lane. Since America's colonial era, the Dark Mansion has been the residence of the mysterious and spooky Addams family.

### Thing

In 959 the family matriarch Eudora Addams won the Dark Mansion from a rival witch in a magical duel. However, she is not the oldest resident, as the family's handyman Thing has served the family for centuries and has been the Nightmare House's caretaker for the entirety of what exists of the house's historical record. The disembodied hand is a "hand of glory," the severed hand taken from a hanged man and made into an arcane relic. In the case of Thing, the hand itself still lives and through magic, it functions without the organs, senses, and utilities that the rest of it's body would provide. Thing sees without eyes, hears without ears, thinks without a brain.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* The Addams Family Motto is: **"Manducamus libenter illos qui nos dominent."** [*translation: We gladly feast on those who would subdue us*] Supposedly, those aren't just pretty words. The family ancestors literally did boil and fry the remains of a tyrant that killed their relative unjustly and served the fallen king for dinner at a banquet celebrating the demise.
* Provided they are not permanently killed by violent means (which is rare for an Addams), the Addams family members will not die by natural means. Should they become too old to function, they can enter a deep sleep at the Addams Family's graveyard. This magical sleep resembles death and will slowly (over the course of years, decades, and centuries) recover the vigor of youth. It's become a family tradition to occasionally enter the Addams cementery with shovel in hand to "wake the dead".
* Lurch has been the house's butler since 1492.
* Most of the cooking is done by Lurch or Grandmama.
* Morticia Addams is good at cleaning, but she's been known to cheat by magically animating brooms and vacuums when she thinks no one is looking.
* Among the facilities of the mansion are an impressive garden, a beautiful conservatory, and an exotic greenhouse. Aside from growing her rose stems to decorate her house, Morticia cultivates magical herbs for her spells and potions. Her most impressive creation is Cleopatra, her sentient carnivorous "African Strangler" plant which she regularly feeds hamburgers.
* Ophelia often stays at the Dark Mansion as guest of her sister.

### Notes

* The address of the mansion is a nod to *The New Addams Family*.

## Links and References

* Appearances of the Dark Mansion
* Location Gallery: Dark Mansion

1. ↑ Network Files: Thing
2. ↑ Dinkley Files: Nightmare Houses
3. ↑ Roy Reimagines... the Addams Family \*snap\* \*snap\*
4. ↑ Network Files: Pugsley Addams
5. ↑ Network Files: Gomez Addams
6. ↑ Network Files: Lurch
7. ↑ Network Files: Morticia Addams