Due to a dryad's curse, an estate staff must tend the gardens with flamethrowers, lest the manor be overrun with foliage... -- Deathshead419
If there is a universal truth to society, it is that those with a lot of money and power simply have to show it off. Only the well off and the highest strata of the world could get away with building things just to look at. Artificial ruins of an imagined lost civilisation. False caves or hermit huts, replete with a hermit hired for the purpose.
And vast swathes of perfectly-maintained lawn.
The lands surrounding the Palace of Archduke Tirerrava Iossophine Cavennys Rezlynraung were constantly spewing smoke. The castle itself was pitch black and possessed few windows. As for the gardens, they were repeatedly tended by fire mages and fire-breathing folk, spending most of their waking hours turning the grounds into smouldering cinders. Anyone unfamiliar with the Rezlynraung history would conclude that the reigning forces were evil. Or at least, up to no good.
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