"Imagination is the link to possibility!"


That is the way most places like this are reached. The caretaker discovered the island while searching for a sanctuary that could be used as a place for undisturbed rest. His primary criteria that it be uninhabited by other people. Employing unorthodox techniques in searching out realms, he eventually stepped into the reality that held this 500 acre island.

His explorations of the island showed him that he was not the first to arrive here. The island had been inhabited to some small extent and judging by some of the items and a few ruined structures he found, it had been at least a century or more since anyone lived here. History of the island before the Caretaker arrived can only be speculated, and for those who use to inhabit it, nonexistent. But what made this place most bizarre was that there seemed to be little to no passage of time. Each time he returned to the island, the full moon was always in the same part of the sky and the stars never moved. It is perhaps why it was left to itself.

The island appeared to have been an outpost of some sort, long ago deserted and forgotten. The rubble of a fortress that looked out towards the mainland are for the most part, overgrown with trees, ferns, and moss. The site of the lodge, located at the opposite side of the island and which faces out towards the center of the expansive lake, was where a much smaller but related structure stood.

After many visits the Caretaker decided more permanent plans could be made. It was upon the stone foundation of a ruin that the he constructed the small, well crafted lodge near the shore of Laughing Duck Lake. He named the lake after an unseen duck that from time-to-time, would burst out with a hardy laugh-like series of quacks. Several half-hearted attempts were made to find the elusive waterfowl that hid somewhere down the shoreline from where he had built, but in the end he let the duck remain a mystery. The creature was perfectly suited for this realm.