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The Living Towers

Civilizations rise and fall even in these faraway places. And where there was life there was magic; inseparable and cut of the same cloth of creation. Yet this story is not about those people or the tragedies that befell them. This is an account of that which solely remains; those foreboding Towers, romanticizing their glory as a testament to what should happen were we to stray too far from the path.


 

Journals of the Travelling Scholar

“Each of the Towers are erected around an exceptionally rare Void Node and were presumably presided over by a master of primal Elemental Magic. An uninhibited force of both creation and destruction. The towers themselves were meant to be massive foci to direct and control the power of the Nodes. The permeated Voidal energy is theorized to have warped reality such that these towers are no longer tethered to the Material realm, instead existing in the between. While both present and naught, finding these towers is not a simple task. It is thought that the path only manifests to those who seek with fervor."

 


 

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The Obsidian Tower

“Woe to those who come upon this land. Desolation for miles and at the epicenter in awesome majesty, the monolithic Obsidian tower. It stabs through the landscape, exuding heat waves that can be felt from even this far out. My lungs burn with each breath, smoke stinging my eyes. The sky itself heaves inwards, giving way to brilliant streams of flame to spit across the churning miasma. Charred remains of villages speckle the landscape, hints of ruined brickery stacked upon dry, cracked ground. Those who remember back further know this land was once lush.”

 

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The Quartz Bastion

“...And here there is Darkness, shielded by an omnipresent Sandstorm. The Horizon is swallowed by this massive swirling vortex of earthen grain. To traverse carelessly within is to wander the faux dunes until you perish… For the landscape guides, with malevolent intent, trespassers to their graves. The few persistent surveyors are torn apart by vengeful souls from a sprawling once-metropolis now buried within the sands. The life here seems to possess the surrounding sands, breeding elemental thralls. Hungry… Those favored by destiny happen upon the central tower, pure gleaming quartz that reaches to the skies, untouched for centuries.”

 

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The Seastone Pagoda

“Beyond a mystical fog laden jungle, labyrinthian in itself,  is the pagoda. The overwhelming cacophony of waterfall soaks the senses as you near, yet this is no natural feature. From the sky, water barrels around a delicate Seastone pagoda, filling a bottomless lake with a vicious undertow lurking just beneath the surface. Each droplet strikes with the force of an arbalest, battering to a pulp anything which sought to cross onto the idyllic center island.”

 

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The Skyway

“Perhaps the most unique, but no less treacherous is the magnificent limestone bridge. A strikingly stalwart sky bridge connects two sides of a gaping ravine. A tumultuous eldritch gale seems to permanently rise from the bottom of the ravine, making descent into it impossible and thus sectioning off this structure from the rest of the world. The ghastly howls of the Ravine may not only originate from the rising winds…”

 

 

Hidden within these towers must be resplendent treasures and vast knowledge of the people and magics of those lands. If only one could crack into them, the uncovered wealth could incite a golden age. Rumors remain that the masters of the towers are yet alive, and their Elemental cabals have been honing the Elemental arts for ages.

 

 

Purpose

This piece probes for interest in what I feel is a much needed break from the Lovecraftian treatment that the Void has solely endured. From acceptance onwards, a pantheon of sub-deific Elemental casters and their respective cabals will be established and fleshed out with each of these towers as a base. Elemental beings, relics, and enigmatic occurrences can be appropriately sourced from the Towers as well naturally at the behest of the Event/Story Team.

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Honestely a big fan, could be a great addition for Evocation training and lore, I'd love to see a variant of self-teaching return using these!

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