The Tyros Carcer

The Tyros Carcer is a stone building located in Tyros, on a patch of ground adjacent to Mercy Gardens. Sine the pre-Wesmodian era the building has been used to house individuals deemed a threat to public wellbeing.

History

The Carcer was originally a part of the complex of Tyros's long since demolished temple of Hayan, and appears to have been owned and operated largely by the clerics of that establishment. The notion of a goddess of love and mercy being associated with a prison is odd enough for some observers to reject the idea. A significant piece of supporting evidence, however, exists in the form of a dedication stone laid by the dictator Lorran Dograz, a man noted for pushing a number of laws through the city senate greatly expanding the list of capital crimes in the city. The muster of prisoners accused of such crimes swiftly overran any of the city's already token capacity to house them, and Dograz, whose paranoia did not overrun his capacity as a stickler for process, would not execute anybody without trial. To counter the expected slew of executions, the notion runs, the priests of Hayan must have involved themselves in the government of the city and offered to house the prisoners and, where possible, rehabilitate them. Dograz evidently agreed with the idea. 
The Keepers of Light do not operate in Tyros, but members of the order from other cities have visited the Carcer and come away with the general feeling that this explanation for the existence and history of the building is broadly accurate. They observe, for example, that the building has no connection to any of the city's impluvia, meaning that water was not brought into it, but it is connected to the city's sewers, with drains n the floor of the cells, so the builders did see the necessity for a standing system to get rid of fluid. This would be in keeping, they argue, with rituals of cleansing and purification practiced by the pre-Wesmodian cult of Hayan.
Running against this theory is the small size of the building, which features jail cells for only a dozen people - not enough to absorb any significant overrun of prisoners. Rather than being a place where enitents could be ritually cleansed, they argue, the buildnig was in fact a house of execution, its drains there to carry blood away from the cells, and Dograz's dedication stone evidence that this stickler for law and order saw the need to dedicate a prison in his city.

Layout

The Carcer contains a dozen small (roughly two metres square) cells accessed off a long corridor. This wing  has no exits except for small barred windows and is reached through a secure wing containing kitchens, offices for scribes, and a guard room.

Type

Prison