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== History == | == History == | ||
=== Origins === | === Origins === | ||
One account suggested that the Strange and Wonderful House's peculiarities stemmed from the fact that it had been built on land that was once part of [[Faerie]], using wood harvested there, such that “something of Faerie” had always lingered within it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'') | |||
At some point, [[The Architect|an individual]] prepared an empty blueprint marked with infinite dimensions and gathered other creative minds to help create rooms for the “strange and wonderful house” they intended to build. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Welcome!|Welcome!]]'') The blueprint was progressively filled out. [[#Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]] was included on the blueprints as “H-P13”, and [[brother (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|one]] of the people with access to the blueprints took to calling it the “Pie” hallway. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 9: Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]]'') The Architect personally gave [[Jenny Everywhere#With the Architect|Jenny Everywhere]] a wing all to herself, which became [[#The Jenny Everywhere Museum|the Jenny Everywhere Museum]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum|The Jenny Everywhere Museum]]'') | At some point, [[The Architect|an individual]] prepared an empty blueprint marked with infinite dimensions and gathered other creative minds to help create rooms for the “strange and wonderful house” they intended to build. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Welcome!|Welcome!]]'') The blueprint was progressively filled out. [[#Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]] was included on the blueprints as “H-P13”, and [[brother (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|one]] of the people with access to the blueprints took to calling it the “Pie” hallway. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 9: Hallway - P13|Hallway - P13]]'') The Architect personally gave [[Jenny Everywhere#With the Architect|Jenny Everywhere]] a wing all to herself, which became [[#The Jenny Everywhere Museum|the Jenny Everywhere Museum]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 18: The Jenny Everywhere Museum|The Jenny Everywhere Museum]]'') | ||
Some of the House's inhabitants perceived it as a “work of fiction” they had created as “writers”, which had somehow become real. This included the “modern” [[Master of the House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 39-II: The Will of the Creator|The Will of the Creator]]'') However, [[Sid]] argued that this was a limiting perspective and the writers had ''not'' really created the House. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)|The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs)]]'') | |||
=== Early history === | |||
One theory about the identity of the [[Woman in the Painting|woman]] depicted in [[the Painting]] with her head turned towards a distant sunset over the sea, wearing a blue dress, was that she was once a woman beloved by the Architect. After she scorned his love, he drowned himself in [[the Tarn]], cursing it. However, most House historians believed this to be a fanciful legend, and that the curse of the Tarn predated the House. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 33: The Painting|The Painting]]'') | One theory about the identity of the [[Woman in the Painting|woman]] depicted in [[the Painting]] with her head turned towards a distant sunset over the sea, wearing a blue dress, was that she was once a woman beloved by the Architect. After she scorned his love, he drowned himself in [[the Tarn]], cursing it. However, most House historians believed this to be a fanciful legend, and that the curse of the Tarn predated the House. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 33: The Painting|The Painting]]'') | ||