Tower of Alnya
Purpose / Function
Strange, a purpose to serve. To what ends does the most isolated place in The Elsewhere serve? Dropping low into the dark, far below where the last of our cities dwell. Past the lights, past where the stars of our strange place dwell. Further into the ink, deeper into the material we cannot fathom.
Though we can follow you, though we have made it comfortable for you. You protested, you explicity told us you didn't want. We cannot bear to see you struggle with that amount of responsibility. We built these cities in the dark for you, we built them to serve as machines to aid you in this task. Their sole purpose to make your hands ease as you struggle to hold onto this place. We know.
We know you struggle, the first of us to join you. The Children of four, a choir to bolster your symphony, this grand amphitheater to ease your tired soul. You, to stand in reverse. Our conductor, our lead, pray tell us what song you wish to sing and it shall be.
Imperial Scholars Thoughts
You'll have to excuse the nature of the Children and their flowered words. They find it difficult to explain the grandeur they feel in this place, and thus fall back on metaphor and poetry. This place is quite simply put, the one location where the inky material of The Outer Dark touchs The Elsewhere. The Queen of the Fae was found here after the creation of the pocket dimension by Anlyth, First Son of Syn and Taneth The Navigator.
She explained that this was the one place where she specifically built to help the Elsewhere exist. She further explained that without the other three of The Quartet she finds it extremely difficult to control the fabric of the Elsewhere. She was never powerful enough to create everything on her own, none of the Quartet was. She needed them as much as they needed each other, thus her alone trying to make the safe haven for the surviving children was a monumental task.
This tower is the conductor for the leylines that run through the Elsewhere distributing her divine power to sustain it all. When the others had learned of this, many of the Children opted to to begin constructing extensive mechanical arrays and arcane skripts etched into the cities they built to ease her burden. While she is now able to freely walk the Elsewhere without needing to be here at all times, she often returns here.
Very few have followed her into the shrine proper, and even fewer speak of what they have seen inside the shrine walls. Only that she will only speak in the language that she spoke with the other members of the Quartet, and that the experience of feeling reality weaved around them is... an intense experience. She finds solace here, lamentation, comfort, and growth.
Alterations
While not much had changed to the stone spire itself, a shrine was built on its pinnicle. Chiseled from the stone itself, it hangs upside down into the dark. Against Alnya's best judgement, she allowed the Children to construct an incredibly complex rune structure to funnel the material to the dome of the shrine for her to access nearly effortlessly. Though she will never openly admit it, she feels both shame and relief at this effort from the Children. Shame that she has not the power to control it to nearly the degree she could with the QUartet to aid her. But, at the same time, an enourmous amount of relief at the ease in which she can access the material now.
Alternative Names
The Tower in the dark, Where Creation Meets, Her Refuge
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Shrine
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