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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 447807" data-attributes="member: 5137">Honestly, a lot of it COULD be glass... but glass is just melted, fine sand for the most part, which does not have the metal problem for the xorns. And even with a lot of glass, there will be a veritable TON of stone to support it.And fragile? Heck yes. It's fragile even if the cistern is solid stone - the clock parts are mostly hanging gears and carefully balanced weights. Without them, you've got a very expensive water storage tube.But a visual disconnect is the author's burden, so mea culpa.The gears are metal - hence the salamanders. I probably should have included some discourse on the design of water clocks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />.Yeah, I would have liked to have put together a bit more on their "friendly feud". Especially since the water elemental is such a delightful combination of simple mind + megalomania.</blockquote>