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May Manor
October 13, 2026 at 04:46 PM
Added the May Manor: Castle raid wing with its three encounters, placed the Viscountess in the Castle, and added the version 1.3 Hard difficulty dates
May Manor (五月庄园) is one of the eight named regions on the launch world map of Lord of Mysteries, and one of the few pieces of content in the game that is simultaneously a place, a dungeon and a raid. It is a ruined aristocratic country estate, presented as a rain soaked gothic wreck of broken stone walls under a leaden downpour, and its corruption runs deep enough that the estate itself is the encounter.
It sits alongside the other named launch regions listed under Setting and World, including the Hornacis Mountains, Golden Autumn Lake, Water Lily Town, Wisteria Corridor, Ramd Castle, the Tingen Impressions region covered under Tingen, and Saint Selena Cathedral.
Detail | Value |
|---|---|
Region name | 五月庄园, May Manor |
Type | World map region, dungeon encounter, and raid parent |
Named raid | 五月庄园·花园, May Manor: Garden |
Raid level | 63 |
Raid size | 12 players. See Dungeons and Raids |
Corruption source | The Red Moon (红月) |
Named boss | The Viscountess (子爵夫人) |
Second raid wing | 五月庄园·城堡, May Manor: Castle, listed for 10 to 12 players |
Castle encounters | 子嗣守护, 一号信徒 and the Viscountess (子爵夫人) |
The deepest source of contamination at May Manor is the Red Moon. The estate's owner, the Viscountess, sacrificed to the Fallen Mother Goddess (堕落母神) and transforms into a distinct combat form as a result of that bargain, which is what turns the manor from a location into a boss encounter. The transformation pattern belongs to the same family of corruption the wiki covers under Beyonder Monsters and Anomalies.
Because the manor is a marker on the world map as well as an instance, it functions in both directions: it can be visited as part of exploring the world, and entered as instanced group content. Encounters at this tier carry the flat sanity costs described under Sanity System.
May Manor: Garden (五月庄园·花园) is the raid grown out of the estate. It is a level 63 encounter for twelve players, which places it at the top of the instanced ladder alongside the six player dungeons and above them in both roster size and gear requirement.
The raid first opened at 08:00 on 2026-07-03, during the closing days of the Gray Fog Test, whose servers shut down at 21:00 on 2026-07-05. It was the first raid sized instance opened in any public test of the game. It then shipped with the live game rather than staying a test exclusive: on the published ten day opening cadence it unlocks on day eight, and it drops item level 62 orange gear together with orange branded (烙印) equipment.
Aspect | Detail |
|---|---|
First opened | 2026-07-03 at 08:00, during the Gray Fog Test finale week |
Launch unlock | Day 8 of the published ten day opening cadence |
Roster | 12 players |
Level | 63 |
Rewards | Item level 62 orange gear and orange branded equipment |
The version 1.2 update of September 17, 2026 touched May Manor in three places, all listed in the patch notes of September 16.
Change | Detail |
|---|---|
Brass Book challenge | A May Manor Brass Book (黄铜书) challenge is listed as opening soon with the update, a group challenge with its own rewards. A second one covers the new Tree of Abundance dungeon. See Dungeons and Raids |
星象仪者 encounter | The combat performance of 星象仪者, an encounter the notes place in May Manor, was improved, and meteor explosions that did not match their warning circles were fixed |
Club activity task | The threshold for the club activity task tied to May Manor was lowered; the notes say it can now also be completed within the same raid group (同团) |
May Manor: Castle (五月庄园·城堡) is the estate's second raid wing. It appears in the studio's version 1.3 preview of October 8, 2026, whose entry screen lists it for 10 to 12 players with Normal and Hard difficulty, and lets a group run it as a party (组队) or with AI teammates (人机). Three encounters are listed in order: 子嗣守护 (literally offspring guardian), 一号信徒 (believer number one) and the Viscountess (子爵夫人). The Viscountess described above is therefore fought in the Castle wing. When the Castle wing first opened is not stated in the material checked for this page.
The version 1.3 preview schedules Hard difficulty for both wings. See Dungeons and Raids for the first clear challenges that arrive with the same update.
Date | Stage | What opens |
|---|---|---|
October 23, 2026 | May Manor: Garden | Hard difficulty |
October 30, 2026 | May Manor: Castle, 子嗣守护 and 一号信徒 | Hard difficulty |
November 6, 2026 | May Manor: Castle, the Viscountess | Hard difficulty |
Guides circulated by players after launch describe a manor raid run with one tank, one healer and six damage dealers, an expected damage floor per damage dealer, and a final encounter against a creature called the Aberrant Hound (异化猎犬) whose defeat starts an unavoidable channel that wipes the group unless it is interrupted. These are player reports, not published documentation, and the roster they describe does not match the twelve player figure the studio gives for the Garden. Both descriptions are recorded here rather than merged, because no official breakdown of the raid's roster or encounter list has been published. The version 1.2 notes name one May Manor encounter, 星象仪者, without placing it in an encounter order.
May Manor is one of the few named instances the studio has publicly attached to a location on the map, which makes it a useful reference point for how the launch world is structured. The playable launch world is Tingen and its criminal underside, a set of named outdoor destinations of which May Manor is one, instanced Hidden Spaces, and battlegrounds. Backlund, the Five Seas and the West Continent are staged for later in the announced content plan rather than being available now. See Dev Roadmap for that sequence.
