The great hall is in the older part of the building, and has a minstrel's gallery at one end with stairs leading up to it. A balcony runs the whole length of the room. There are weapons and tapestries on the walls, and a huge fireplace. The wood-pannelled dining room, music room and old library are also in this wing  

The kitchen leads off the old hall, with another staircase going up from it, and beyond them is the stable yard and kitchen garden. Around the stables and coach house you will probably see a couple of retrievers running around, as well as several cats. 

The main entrance hall, with a large staircase and the doors to various rooms, is in this newer wing of the building. A new library was built in this wing, with bookshelves from floor to ceiling - all three storeys of it (ground, first, second). There is a balcony to one side of the first floor, and of the second, with a wrought iron spiral staircase leading from top to bottom. Robert's private rooms are up there, and his study is immediately below it. Right at the top of the spiral staircase is Robert's art studio. 

The decor in the new wing is late eighteenth century - solid, plastered, coloured walls, with plaster work picked out in white for decoration, and freizes and reliefs on the ceilings. There are a lot of paintings around, including family portraits of the de Lacy family. The furniture is mainly seventeenth and eighteenth century - heavy wooden chairs and tables, upholstered in fine fabrics. 

Also noticeable, is that lights do not appear to be electrically powered - but neither are they oil lamps or candles. In fact, looking at the house the tech level of the Shadow is obviously mid- to late-nineteenth century, rather than twentieth. No TV, no video, no computer, no usual kitchen appliances - you get the general idea. A small, thatched stone church was built in the grounds, and is the parish church for the village of Millbank, where the de Lacys were lords of the manor. It is just visible in the trees off to one side of the garden, and contains the family mausoleum.

The capital of Murray is Huntly, and on entering the Gateway, you effectively enter beside the West Gate of a walled town, about one mile across, with the Castle on a noticeable rise towards the east.  Near the top of the rise, you enter through a gateway into a public park which surrounds the upper contours of the Castle Rise. About 600 yards ahead of you on the road you're walking is the fortified area around the castle, which you reach a short while later. You enter and cross the Outer Ward, before entering into the castle itself.

There is a big parade ground, with a number of buildings: the smells of both baking and distilling fill the air, as well as the more normal scents of a working castle (sans the midden, as there is proper drainage, etc). To the left of you is an obvious "keep" - like a four storey tower house; to the right, a more comfortable palace structure. It's to the latter he leads you. It doesn't quite form a complete rectangle, but it has gardens in the courtyard and a cloistered walkway around the courtyard-facing walls.

More details of Murray and Huntly can be found in the Sable Game pages.

Details of the Kingdom of Sable can be found in the Sable Game pages.