Kellius Droman
Kellius Droman is an industrialist and powerful mage whose primary residence is in the city of Lumencia.
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Description in SLAY2
The man wore a tailored, dark green, three-piece suit with burnished gold buttons. His gray-threaded hair looked like he’d just stepped out of the salon. Billy was a good three inches taller, but the man’s air of effortless confidence made Billy feel instantly smaller.
Home: Cranwedge Mansion
Droman's mansion is in the Baron Ridge neighborhood of Lumencia. The mansion was constructed in 1860 by Arnie Cranwedge, a 19th century steel tycoon and noted occultist. Cranwedge disappeared in 1918. The mansion remained in his estate until 1923, when it was purchased by reputed bootlegger Luco "Gasbag" Deluca. Deluca owned the mansion until his death in 1942, at which time it was purchased by noted war profiteer Smedly Canglin.
Droman took up residence in the mansion in the latte 1990s and has lived there ever since.
Description of Kellius's office
Droman’s study seemed equally suitable for an old-money millionaire or a new-age wizard. Bookshelves with enough leather-bound tomes to make Ron Burgundy feel inadequate. Gold-trimmed crown moulding. A huge, immaculate, ornate desk, behind which sat one of the richest people on Earth.
Description of mansion
(taken from a writeup on Colton House in San Fancisco, which Droman's mansion is based on).
The Daily Alta California newspaper, in its 09/02/1872 edition described "...the mansion in course of erection for General Colton." The writer took the reader of a tour of each room floor by floor. It wrote: "This site is also one of the finest in the city, the view it commends being truly magnificent. The building is two stories high with a splendid basement, the walls of which are of heavy brick two feet thick. The architecture of the first story is Roman composite, and that of the second Corinthian. All the windows have Corinthian columns and entablatures, and the balustrade of the roof is beatifully enriched. The main entrance consists of a handsome portico, thirty-one feet wide and twelve feet deep, with heavy pillars on either side, the capitals of which are richly carved n wood. The steps will be of marble, and on the side buttresses there are already two beatiful marble lions which were designed and carved in Italy. A music room twenty-four feet high, with composite entablature and open balustrade projects from the main building in line with Taylor street. This room, which likewise is intended for a picture galley, is one of the large private apartments in the city, its size being 33x63, and in its moulding, frescoing and general finish, will constitute perhaps the handsomest as well.
From the porch, a vestibule 7x13, with a dome ceiling, and having a large niche on either side heavily enriched, is entered, directly conducting to the entrance hall, 13 1/2x16, from which the principal hall, 13 1/2x48, is reached. Back of this there is an elegant staircase where the hall widens to twenty feet. The stairs are provided with Newel posts, exquisitely carved. On the right, the reception-room, which measures 16x20 comes first. With this the library, 22x36, which will be handsomely moulded and have elaborate fixtures, is connected. The dining hall, a magnificant room 20x42, looking out on Cushman street, comes next on the same side. On the left of the hall there is a double parlor, the size of which is respectively, 15 1/2x21 1/2 and 21x26. Next is the billiard room 20x38, which is also entered from the main hall, and at the back of this is the music room already mentioned. To better describe this magnificent room it may be stated that it has a dome panel ceiling and a central cupola, rising ten feet, in which are fitted about eighteen windows of ground and cut glass, forming a square with an enclosed space, intended for some exquisite frescoing. The cornices and panels are, moreover, elaborately rich. Indeed, it would seem as if the highest perfection of ornamentation were to beautify this part of the building.
On the second floor, the leading feature is the principal chamber, which is an immense bed-room, its size being 22x31. On the left of this are two large dressing rooms, with a bath-room between them. Five other bed-rooms are on the same side. Leading from the grand chamber one the west side is a lovely breakfast room, and two bed-rooms. There are beside four bath-rooms on this floor of large size and possessing every appliance.
Not only is every room in the building ornamented with fancy cornices and panelingsm but all the doors of the ground floor are made of polished mahogany, and shaped with elliptical heads, and some of them have full mirror facing. On the second floor, however, the doors are of pine. In the plaster work the mortar used is very little different from that described in connection with Mr. Haggin's mansion.
In the rear of the building, in line with the main entrance, is a fine carriage porch, 12 by 23, at the back of which is a conservatory with glass roofand handsome cornices. Passing to the right, and behind the dining-room, are the butler's pantry, kitchen, closets and back stairway, all provided with the latest improvements. The exterior altogether would be rather plain in appearance were it not for the Corinthian features. It will cost about $75,000, and is expected to be completed about November 1st. Messrs. S.C. Bugbee and sons are the architects." (See "General Colton's Mansion," Daily Alta California, vol. 24, no. 8194, 09/02/1872, p. 1.)
Demolition
This mansion burned in the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 04/18-19/1906, Collis Huntington's second wife, Arabella Duval Yarrington Huntington (1852-1924), donated the land on which the Colton/Huntington House stood to the City of San Francisco in 1915. It became part of Huntington Park.
The mansion contains a ballroom, formal dining room, bowling alley, meshwork laboratory, a greenhouse and a library.
Five Rules of Negotiating the Droman Way
Kellius developed rules for his personal negotiation style.
- Tell them what they want to hear, let them see what they want to see.
- Never share information you don't have to share.
- Listen more, talk less. They will show you their weaknesses and desires while you keep yours hidden.
- Their weakness is your gift -- use it against them without mercy.
- Every piece of information matters.
