The History of VK Crown & Bone
Formerly: The Order House of the Black Meridian
Erected in the late 1700s, the building now occupied by VK Crown & Bone began as the Order House of the Black Meridian, an imposing stone manse established by a quasi-occult society of ex-naval officers, pirates, and deep-sea mystics. Known as the Black Meridian, these shadowed mariners dredged a dark obelisk from the trench beyond Sharkhead Island and declared it their guiding star.
Behind its baroque arches and sea-facing windows, the Order performed eldritch rites, charted impossible tides, and whispered to things beneath the waves. Trade in cursed goods, salted relics, and vanished ships soon followed.
But even Port Oakes has limits.
According to surviving tavern lore, the city’s criminal elite, weary of whispers and worried for their reputations, organized a masked raid during a high-society banquet held on the premises. The building was stormed and burned, and the heretics vanished into the smoke—leaving behind only scorched stone and that silent, ever-turning obelisk.
Over the following centuries, the structure housed everything from failed distilleries to meat-packing ventures to an experimental freezer warehouse—none of which lasted.
Until now.
Recently and quietly acquired by Vampburger King Holdings, the building has undergone a full restoration and grand reopening as VK Crown & Bone, the corporation’s first upscale waterfront establishment. Whether it thrives… or joins the long, cursed list of its predecessors…
Remains to be seen.
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