Avani Trade Tower
Avani, in its brief time as the largest port in Levis and the major centre of trade in Oceanus has had two sound towers to keep its traders from the roots that web between the islands of the Sunken Isles. Both based off the tower based at Waverly point , the second stands tall over the tip of the island, while its brother has a new use.
The first Avani Sound tower was built, further inland, on the volcano that serves as centrepiece for the island. It was however small shifts in the volcano due to low levels of geological activity that dislodged the bud of the tower from the mountain before it could see more than the barest use. With its root package damaged, the building should have seen rot and that would have been the end of it, except for the Whisperling population growing on the other side of the island.
With several new alterations, the Whisperlings now use the core of the sound tower as the hub around which the spokes of the trade tower now exists.
This tower is core to diplomacy between Avani and the Rebellion, as the trade officials of the tower work to convert excess and product of the archipelago community into capital with which to trade for things that the community needs to be distributed back, and all the White foam that produces.
Purpose / Function
The trade tower houses the 2 to 3 smaller whisperling packs needed to both organise moving of supplies and to hand the logistics of records keeping and of storage and communication of the deals between port and rebellion. Given the current lack of access to Binding technology, the records are inscribed upon plucked leaves and marked with the White foam required to mark it official.
Alterations
With the hollowed sound tower in the centre, Whisperling construction has built three tripod legs in a curved design to hoist it up. Small walkways and platforms honeycomb the centre of the tower, which is almost archology sized for the teacup sized units inside the pack. The circuit inside is damaged, although the aquatic plants have been preserved and act as a power source for many smaller and more humble spells that make the trade tower run.
Most notable is the patterning of the walkways, built out from the inner walls in multiple diamonds and laced with color from imbibing different minerals before the regurgitation process. (Whisperlings construction coming from consuming materials and binding them in their gut with stomach acid and mucus to form a unique solid - tooltip later) The inside is a massive coloured pattern, that would be spectacular to behold - should any stranger be able to or be allowed to see it. Outside is kept deliberately white, including the preserving layer over the sound tower core, in an attempt to prevent decay.
I love that the Whisperlings have taken over a tower that would have otherwise rotted away. That's a really cool thing in your world.
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