Ximmik Manor

The Ximmik family is one of the oldest in Lankhmar. Their palatial home features graceful architecture, pleasant landscaping, artificial lakes and streams, rare flowering plants, and some of the deadliest defenses in the city. Poisoned caltrops cover the grounds, watch leopards patrol, heavily armed, high-level mercenaries lurk in trees and secret hiding places, the house itself is triple locked and barred from the inside, and rumor has it that patriarch Yaro Ximmik keeps one or more black magicians constantly on retainer to deal with anyone lucky enough to actually penetrate the house.

Family valuables are kept in an underground vault, guarded by a pair of gladiator lizards on chains. The chains are attached to hidden windlasses which may be turned to pull the lizards back should Yaro or his family wish to retrieve something from the vault.