The Magic Company

"When asked about the origins of the palace, the Aldrich family are extremely reticent, and will promptly order you to be escorted from the premises and banned from re-entry if you press them too hard. Despite the huge amount of unknown information regarding the castle, the Magic Company is too useful a resource to be deprived of, and so the townspeople and visitors alike have come to leave its mysteries aside, no longer questioning the motives of the family. Indeed, besides being a rather unpleasant group of people to talk to, the Aldrich family do not seem to be evil, they’re just suspiciously quiet. There’s even a running joke among the merchants that the family can rewrite the memories of those who live nearby, and so have deliberately hidden their history. But no one remembers where that rumor came from…."