Omvim Perrem: Corner Tower

History

The Corner Tower, as it came to be called, was discovered after the Tuhran Wars, when Keyrit looked towards expansion and development after securing its borders. An explorer returned to the native homeland of the Keyrit-Welokyi, the island of Irewa, to discover what early society was like. He dug a dozen cubits into the volcanic ash to find absolutely nothing. Just as he was about to give up, he saw in the distance a placed stone, quite eroded but clearly manmade. He dug around it to find that the stone was the corner of a square room, whose sides were just wider than he was tall. More intriguingly, the room had stairs which traveled downwards, at least a hundred cubits into the soil. The explorer realized that he had not dug nearly far enough, and that in fact the Irewan city was buried beneath far more ash than he had anticipated.

Even after the city had been mostly excavated, the tower remained an exemplary specimen. It was an engineering miracle that something that tall with so little a base could withstand a heavy pyroclastic flow. There were great carvings upon it, names of individuals, and paintings along its inside walls. It was quite inland and so couldn't be a lighthouse or watchtower. The age and spacing of the ground underneath it gave the indication that the tower was built in the middle of a large square, well after the square was put in place.

It was concluded that this tower was dedicated to those who fell in Irewa's first volcano eruption, and was built sometime before Irewa's third volcano eruption. There is no reference to the eruption, nor is there any imagery of woe or tragedy. However, most of the people depicted on the tower are bathed in light, or depicted with wings, indicating some belief of afterlife.

Type

Monument, Large