The Mansion in the Adirondacks

Mardellion set up his cult, who follow The Book of Ether, in an abandoned mine area. The location is incredibly remote, with the nearest town miles away. Travelers must cross a rickety old wood bridge in order to get up to the property. There is a large and beautiful main house built of stone and several small cabins down by a nearby lake. Mardellion built a huge, grand temple for his followers to worship. When Etherists stopped joining, and Merdellion's cult grew smaller, he grew desperate. His collected old mining explosives from the nearby abandoned mines.

While this location is quite old, it does not appear in the book until the end of the novel, when Mr. Bell brings Nat and Ruth there to wit out a horrible snow storm. they arrive to find a grand mansion that has been frozen in time, abandoned...