Soundtower Development

With the stationary nature of the Waverly point Soundtower and the failure due to volcanic activity of the first Avani Soundtower it was natural for the people of Oceanus to want to utilise and progress the technology to a more efficient and effective state.

In the years since the fall of the first tower of Avani, the port town forbade travel during the fog and the deep night, until a second tower could be constructed. The trouble started when it was realised that the design of the first tower was such that to approach during the fog or full darkness, a ship would have to have an extremely good navigator, or to travel so slow as to basically be rowing.

Iteration 2

Iteration 2 of the tower was used in the tower was actually a series of small becons run from a house off the north point of the island, the horns placed across three points, to help the navigators the ability to triangulate the source of the sound and move away from the direction of the loud but deep sound. The problem here occurred with both the still imprecise nature of the array, and with the sabotage that happened several times in the year this particular method was in use.

This iteration was not deployed outside of Avani, even as the Waverly point model was being constructed on other points of extreme danger. Before the Waverly point soundtower, sea travel was not used by anyone not Nocturne (Due to their alternatural connection to the sea) during the fog or deep dark. While not as effective as needed, the construction of the Mark 1s were a significant increase in safety during these dangerous times.

Iteration 3

The third iteration was created off the coast near Whencis, and utilised the newly discovered demonic runes to cast a feeling of dread laced within the sound, a sensation that oddly enough was more accurate and worked at a longer distance, though was more of an area of effect type solution and was seen as a non-solution to the sea fearing community at large, especially with the requirement of the etching of the rune on stone or metal.

Iteration 4

The current iteration of tower in use at Avani uses a Gourd floating on a bed of lubrication and has two spells in effect, the spell that turns the gourd containing the focussed flutes, and the spell to construct the sound, the tower forced to sit much higher on the ground as to project farther, though the town of Avani has suffered many a troubled sleep in the year this tower has been in construction.