Rosenfeld Hall

**Rosenfeld Hall**, formerly known as St. Elmo's Hall, is the former tomb of St. Elmo's, a secret society and House of the Veil. It is located at 109 Grove Street, New Haven, Connecticut. The Hall was renamed when it was acquired by Yale University and it now serves as offices and annex space. Most of the historic areas have since been boarded up and used for storage space, while remnants of the hidden arcane society remain in Rosenfeld's three hidden basement levels.

Once or twice a year, echoes of St. Elmo's weather magic return to Rosenfeld Hall and cause a magical equivalent to a power surge. If left untreated by Lethe House, a campus-wide black out can occur.

## History

The violent consumption of Sophie Mishkan's soul in 1902 created the nexus on which Rosenfeld Hall, and thus the tomb of St. Elmo's, was built on. Its construction was funded by what would become the Rhinelander Trust Association.

When the society was cash poor in the 1960's, Yale University purchased the property from St. Elmo's and promised to keep leasing the crypt rooms to St. Elmo to use for their rituals. However, this agreement was not solidified using an Aurelian contract, but a gentleman's agreement that fell to the wayside when new university administration eventually took over. In 1985, Yale would refuse to renew St. Elmo's lease and would acquire St. Elmo's Hall for themselves, renaming the building Rosenfeld Hall. St. Elmo's now perform their rites in an apartment on Lynwood St. Since then, St. Elmo's as a society have only managed the barest of magics, hardly managing to summon a storm.

### Remaining Magic

The years St. Elmo's spent summoning storms has for some reason caused the weather to return to Rosenfeld Hall once or twice a year. In the basement of Rosenfeld, this is indicated by the persistent humming of electricity and storm weather. Lethe House monitors the Hall and its delegates are made to redirect the energy when this power surge occurs. This is done with a silver weather vane that absorbs the weather magic, which ensures the weather vanes effectively gets destroyed in the process. Lethe delegates must be sure to wear rubber gloves and boots the entire time, but are still likely to experience mild nosebleeds. If this magical energy is not redirected with the weather vane, it will create a power surge, causing trouble with the local electrical grid.

## Ninth House

On a Tuesday night, December 10, the Lethe House warning system alerted Oculus Pamela Dawes that Rosenfeld Hall was experiencing a magical weather occurrence. She notified Darlington, who in turn called Alex Stern, to deal with the problem. Although locked at night, Darlington had a key and was able to enter Rosenfeld's subterranean floors, where St. Elmo's conducted storm summonings.

The pair successfully redirected the weather magic. Unbeknownst to them, Dean Elliot Sandow summoned a hellbeast to the basement of Rosenfeld Hall in order to get rid of them as obstacles in his plan to create a nexus and commit sacrificial homicide. Thinking its mouth was an illegal portal, Darlington was swallowed by the hellbeast, leaving Alex to report his strange disappearance.

## Appearance and Layout

Rosenfeld Hall’s is built in the English manorial house style, with its Elizabethan towers and being made of red bricks.

Beyond the offices and residential annexes, there is locked room of huge storage spaces packed with battered dorm furniture and discarded mattresses. This used to function as the old dining hall of St. Elmo. The dining room interior consisted of soaring Gothic arches and clever stone detailing.

Beyond the dining room is another locked door to a staircase that descended down through three subterranean floors, the hum growing louder with every downward step. Only a few remnants of St. Elmo's presence remained in the lower levels: old electrical conductors with pointed metal spires and empty vats and cracked glass tanks that were essentially containers for elemental magic.

## References

1. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 18 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.\_Elmo\_(secret\_society)