Observatory of the Soul
On a small island isolated far off the western coastline, of the settled lands, there is a single tower rising from jagged rocks, with no obvious entrance, it's summit often hidden within the clouds. This is the home of a secretive heretical sect called the Prophets of Liitto.
A small cave within the rocks is seemingly the only way to enter and once within it becomes obvious there is far more to this tower than meets the eye, endless passageways, cut by hand, burrow into the rock below for storage and housing for the servants and underlings. At the back of the cave is an ornate spiral staircase that would allow ten men to comfortably climb it abreast, that spirals up and up unbroken all the way to the summit.
The various levels of the tower are full of all sorts of fascinating rooms; embellished bedrooms, libraries stuffed with forbidden books, studies piled high with papers in mystical languages and the far more numerous than you would expect heavy locked doors hiding unknown wonders within. These levels are all outshined by the observatory on the summit, a single room within a huge glass dome, that has views for many miles when the sky is clear, the floor of the room is a single piece of stone 50m in diameter, how this capstone to the tower was ever raised to this height, where the ships anchored off the island look like mere child's toys will forever by a mystery. This huge room that could have contained an entire battalion, with space to march around, instead only contains 3 simple items carved from the same single piece of unbroken stone that makes up the floor. Two benches one on the western side and one on the eastern side, allowing an acolyte to face outwards and look towards one of the two warring regions, they believe should be one. On the northern side of the room, the third item, a simple dais with an analogion rising from it's centre, on which rests a book, that only the true believers can approach, The Gospel of Liitto.
Or rather this is how the tower would have been described, before the pogrom against the Prophets of Liitto all those years ago, the soldiers falling in their hundreds as they tried to breach the cave entrance from their boats whilst rocks and arrows rained down from above. The battle within that raged for two weeks as the acolytes fell one by one defending the rooms and passageways. After the fighting ended and the last acolyte had been executed the tower was stripped until it was left in its current state. Bare stone, the observatory dome long gone, nothing that could identify who this tower had once belonged to remained, the grand stairs now a waterfall whenever the weather turns. Though for those that know and brave the climb, to the exposed summit, they can still sit on one of the benches or place their hand where the Gospel had once rested.
Type
Temple / Religious complex
Owning Organization