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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cryptos" data-source="post: 4626349" data-attributes="member: 58439"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's part of an Eladrin city... the part that stands in the world as a passage to the rest of the city in the Feywild, acts as a watchtower to those approaching the passage to the Feywild, and serves to mark the location to Eladrin as a passage to the Feywild.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's a beacon tower (like a lighthouse) built by a cult of worshippers of the Raven Queen, used to draw in the inhabitants of the Shadow realm into the world, either so that they could be summoned and pressed into service, or for a more benign cult, to commune with the dead.  The beacon at the top of the tower does not shine in the real world, but casts its pale ethereal rays into the Shadow to attract ghostly servants or ancestors.  (I guess this would make it a "darkhouse" rather than a lighthouse.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's a giant key / puzzle that unlocks the tomb of a forgotten emperor that lies beneath with his army of dormant warforged soldiers that guard his final resting place (think of the Chinese emperors that had vast armies of terra cotta soldiers.)  Each level of the tower corresponds to one of the rings of geometric designs on the outside, and a different task or puzzle on each level rotates that level of the tower.  When the various levels are aligned correctly, an entrance to the tomb opens in the base of the tower, providing access.  Unlocking the tower and then getting into the tomb and discovering the dormant warforged where they stand waiting to be reactivated to serve their emperor could be an interesting way to introduce the race to settings that don't typically have warforged, as constructs of the forgotten emperor that were buried with him in his tomb.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's one of the labors of a deity's earthly avatar, which the deity demanded the avatar construct to atone for a transgression.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's one of what was once a series of towers that ran from one end of the the ancient, fallen Arkhosian Empire to the other and allowed them to send encoded signals across the land by covering and uncovering the sections at the top, where a great fire would be lit.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's a prison created by a powerful, ancient ritual that holds in the power or essence of an ageless being from the Far Realms that tried to devour the world.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's a gilded cage where a king had kept his daughter, whose beauty and disobedience to her father were both legendary, to ensure that she would remain a virgin and kept from temptation until she could marry the prince of a neighboring kingdom, through a marriage arranged when they were both still infants.  The kingdom fell in war, but isolation of the princess' tower kept her staff, attendants, and guards from learning of this.  The wizard that served as her tutor and guardian placed her in an arcane stasis when they failed to receive word from the king for several years, to keep her youthful, vital, and ready for her prince - a prince that would never arrive to take her hand in marriage because he died in the war.  The wizard animated gargoyles and golems to guard the tower.  Horrifically, the princess has been aware of the passage of time and her surroundings despite the spell that locks her in stasis.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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