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'''The Architect''' was the mysterious entity who oversaw the creation of [[the Strange and Wonderful House]]. | '''The Architect''', or sometimes '''the Creator''', was the mysterious entity who oversaw the creation of [[the Strange and Wonderful House]]. | ||
At some point, an individual gathered a group of creative people and showed them the as-yet-empty blueprints, infinite in size, for what would become the Strange and Wonderful House, and told them to put their imagination into creating as many distinctive, impossible rooms as possible. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Welcome!|Welcome!]]'') | At some point, an individual gathered a group of creative people and showed them the as-yet-empty blueprints, infinite in size, for what would become the Strange and Wonderful House, and told them to put their imagination into creating as many distinctive, impossible rooms as possible. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Welcome!|Welcome!]]'') | ||
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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; the woman then presumably became [[the Lady in Mourning]]. However, 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; the woman then presumably became [[the Lady in Mourning]]. However, 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]]'') | ||
[[Sid]], a mysterious man who once guided the [[Master of the House]] on a journey of self-rediscovery through [[the Gardens]], described himself as “simply” being the incarnation of “the will of his Creator”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 39-II: The Will of the Creator|The Will of the Creator]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
