Guardian House
Location
Guardian House sits over an energy nexus in the middle of San Francisco's prestigious and historic Nob Hill district. The house was constructed in the late 1860's and, thanks in part to magical protections, survived the earthquake and fire of 1906 on up into the modern era. San Francisco provided a point mid-way up the coast to station mages to protect a wide range and a burgeoning population center. The house was intended to house four mages and their apprentices and house four more (and their apprentices) as guests.
Magical Construction
To harness the most energy possible from the nexus, Guardian House was constructed over a giant elemental pentagram, with each point corresponding to one of five elements: earth, fire, water, air, and spirit, creating nodes to power and recharge the mages. Each region in the house would correspond back to the pentagram, so, for instance, the greenhouse was placed directly over the earth node, and the earth mage's suite (on a higher floor) was above the node as well.
The house's construction also used aspects of perfect squares, numerology, the Tarot, and alchemy.
Residents
Two full fledged and official Guardians currently reside in the House, Vincent di Fiorenze and Diana Greenleaf, representing the elements of air and earth respectively.
Earth
Diana lives in the earth mage suite on the third floor. There is no longer a resident in the earth apprentice suite.
Two angelic beings, Jeff and his companion, live in the conjoined earth guest rooms on the second floor. The werewolf named Alex shares a room with the Celtic girl who fell through time at Stonehenge in the remaining earth oriented guest room next to them.
Air
Vincent lives in the air mage suite on the third floor. Dr. John Evans lives in the air apprentice suite next to Vincent.
There are no residents in any of the air guest rooms.
Water
Recently, Thomas was moved by the house, from the water apprentice suite to the water mage suite. He originally declined the mage suite when it was offered. After receiving Holy Orders, the house closed and locked his door and moved his possessions into the mage's suite. There is currently no one in the apprentice suite.
Koi lived/lives? in one of the water guest rooms on the third floor. Brie lives in the other water guest room.
Fire
There is currently no resident in the fire mage suite. Recently, after she returned from Hell and the house let her back in, Julia was moved out of the earth apprentice suite (where Diana originally placed her) into the fire apprentice suite.
When she was there, Josh and the Jedi lived in the two conjoined fire guest suites on the third floor. The Jedi had since gone home, and Josh has since moved out to live on campus at his mage school.
Spirit
The house has a spectral resident, the ghost girl with the coke bottle glasses, who lives in the one room over the spirit node on the third floor.
The Basement
Other than the cars, the basement does have some more neutral rooms, originally for servants, in the lowest level of the house. When they lived at Guardian House, a beginning mage and a male Rom shared a double room on this floor. The mage moved out before Josh but for the same reasons. The Rom also left, feeling the need to move on.