Anteos Villa

Anteos Villa was the family estate of the Waterdhavian noble house Anteos.

Location
The Anteos Villa was located in the North Ward of Waterdeep,  on the corner of Anteos Lane and Trollkill Street. It stood across from the Phull Villa.

Structure
Like many Waterdhavian villas, this was a walled estate featuring a landscaped garden. Inside the walls of the estate were two high-quality buildings that stood two stories and one story tall, these being the mansion proper and a guesthouse respectively.

History
In the, Lord Hamar Anteos had an affair with Kyara Ruldegost, a young Tethyrian woman distantly related to the Ruldegost clan. The lord of that clan at the time, the ill-tempered Econ Ruldegost, was incensed by the matter that he engaged Hamar in a duel and lost his life. With his dying breath he laid a curse upon House Anteos, proclaiming that they would be, "...heirless until they recognize and accept the ruin they have done me and mine."

Soon after the death of Lord Econ, the couple would bare a daughter. Later that year, Kyara and her baby would be murdered by "brigands" on their way to a picnic being hosted on a plot of land owned by House Anteos near Westwood. Rather than a proper burial, their bodies would be dumped into the Stump Bog.

From that day forward Kyara's ghost haunted the Anteos Villa, becoming one of the strongest and most persistent hauntings of any villa in the city. She appeared each night, manifesting in the mansion's every window and open external doorway. She was said to appear with a bloody and muddy dress, a tear-stained face, and clutching a blue-faced baby whose vacant eyes were piercing.

After only twelve years, Kyara's haunting drove Lord Hamar to such heights of madness that he died in a fit of screaming. However, even with his death her haunting continued, preventing the members of House Anteos from sleeping well. Over time, Kyara's ghost became known by Waterdhavians as the "Crying Girl."