What location is this set in?
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What location is this set in? 

It is an alternate dimension of 1400s Earth. Quaraun is from The Deep North, which is described as North of the Forest of No Return, East of the land of the Cookie Elves in Gitchigumi, and South of Santa's Village in the North Pole. 

The Quaraun Series is the prequel to the Twighlight Manor Series, with Quaraun being Sir Roderic Swanzen's “unnamed” grandfather, who in the TM series was only ever refereed to as “The Grand High Emperor of The Triple Planets” along side of references to his outlandish “Liberace` pink sequined” wardrobe. The TM series is set in modern times (written in the 1970s, Liberace was still alive and the series contains many references to him, his show, and his songs that would be lost on most readers of the 21st century – Quaraun was supposed to be the Medieval equivalent to Liberace`). The Twighlight Manor being a large palace-like 500 room mansion that comes alive and eats people. Throughout the series are references to a Demonic “Diontite Horse” called “Antares” chained up in the basement and a “psychotic Ratzin whom the Chrystonites call Sunta” kept closely guarded in a third floor room of the far West Wing. 

The TM series never explains the horse in the basement or the boy on the 3rd floor that never ages, who they are, or why they are held prisoner in the house. The Quaraun series is the back-story which tells who they are and how they came to be locked up in the far reaches of the Twighlight Manor.

Likewise the TM series never tells how the Twighlight Manor was built, what causes it to come to life and start eating people, and all that is really known about the origins of the house is that it was built by “The Grand High Emperor of the Triple Planets” shortly before he went on his legendary mass murdering rampage on Mount Demontooth at Oganada.

The Twighlight Manor vanished from Human sight and was not seen again until the 1970s when a mysterious yellow haired scientist, known only as The Gremlin, appeared out of no where and “woke up” the house.

The Twighlight Manor series picks up from this point and tells the story of the lives of the Swanzen family, focusing primarily on Roderic and his sons Etiole and Razz, and Etiole's son Phozeen, while also focussing on Roderic's strange Elf-like long eared uncle Dr. Vangoneese and his son AlKeeme and AlKeeme's friend the Phooka named BlackBird, grandson of King Gwallmaiic, Elf Eater of Pepper Valley, who stands guard over, Sunta, the long eared boy that never ages and wears dozens of earrings in his foot long ears all connected by chains to the ring through his nose and sits gibbering quietly to himself in a language no one can translate.

The insane boy in the attic has long been one of The Twighlight Manor series unanswered mysteries and the Quaraun series was written to tell his story.

The Quaraun series filled in the spaces, by going back in time before the Manor was built, before the world was devastated by the Battle of Ongadada, to look at the life of the infamous pink robed king who would eventually build The Twighlight Manor and then slaughter everyone living on all 3 of the solar system's inhabited planets before vanishing from public eye forever. As such the Quaraun series takes place in the exact same location as the Twighlight Manor series.

The Twighlight Manor is situated in The Twighlight Forest (which in real life is my land at 146 Portland Ave, in the Ross Forest of Old Orchard Beach, Maine.) The Forest of No Return is a haunted Faerie Forest which randomly appears out of nowhere and can be anywhere, but when not popping up around the globe, is in fact The Twighlight Forest in Maine.

The Deep North, is the Northernmost regions of Quebec near Newfoundland. In one story it is said that after the Moon Elf Village was destroyed, the Humans moved in and built a new city on top of it, which they named Kuujjuaq, Quebec.  The cliffs mentioned in The Night of The Screaming Unicorn are the cliffs of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland Canada. The subterranean caves that spout water are based off The Thunder Hole in Arcadia National Park in Bar Harbour, Maine.

The strange statue like stones growing from the beach, are found in The Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. Pepper Valley and Fire Mountain are in Scotland accessed in Canada by Faerie Portals - Fingal's Cave in Scotland being one of the many portals. References to “The Gorge” are Quiche Gorge in Vermont. The Swift River is in New Hampshire while the Saco River runs from Canada trough Maine.

Backelder Brook runs through my farm in Old Orchard Beach. The Marsh is the Scarborough Marsh in Maine. The lake surrounded by swamps filled with moose is Canton Lake in Maine, while the valley of waterfalls is the Flumes of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Pretty much every single nature feature to appear in the series is an actual place in Maine or it's surrounding areas, that you can visit in real life and in most cases I was on location of when I wrote the scenes.

The Cookie Elves of Gitchigumi are a spoof of The Keebler Elves of Lake Michigan. In the Quaraun series Santa Claus and his buddy Krumpas are evil Trickster Faerie who have kidnapped the Cookie Elves and is holding them hostage in Santa's slave labour factory in Newfoundland, where Santa is actually a Leprechaun who gives shoes to good girls and boys and feeds bad boys and girls to the blood thirsty Phooka Krumpas.  

Black Tower is the Portland Headlight after an evil wizard, named HellBorne, turned it into a Lovecraftian Chaos Demon beacon. Most of the Quaraun series takes place in Maine, New Hampshire, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the surrounding New England and Maritime regions; if you are from the area, you will recognize many local landscapes, landmarks, and businesses show up throughout the series. The Saco River, often mentioned in the series, is a real river that runs out of Canada and through Maine.

The Saco River Curse is a real local legend. In spite of the fact that the Quaraun Series is set the 1400's, the taverns he and Unicorn frequent most often (The Golden Rooster and Mike's) are in fact real places in Saco, Maine, though neither are taverns. The Golden Rooster is a breakfast dinner where I eat in the mornings and Pizza By Michael is a Greek pizza parlour where I eat at night. Both of these locations are where I write the majority of the stories for this series and why you see them show up in the stories so very often.

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