Mage Tower

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A Mage Tower is a permanent ritual site used in Tower Magic.

The tower itself is essentially a hollow stone structure with a spiral staircase winding up the inside, each step of which acts as a ritual site for a page. Each step is usually called a 'story' or 'level', though most steps are no more than a few square feet, and sometimes less than a foot below the next level. As such, a Mage Tower might be thousands of stories high, while only a few hundred feet into the air.

Tower levels can very drastically in size, though they tended to grow as the Mage Wars progressed. The largest-known towers were built by the Marcon Alliance, each step of which contained lavish accommodations as well as private elevators. The individual 'steps' were also around 12 feet different in height, making the internal stair useless for anything but spellcasting. Though towers capable of holding more wizards existed, in terms of sheer enormity, the Marcons built the largest.

Command

"Command" refers to a mage tower's areas of influence, where it can reach. Towers were built tall or even on mountain tops in order to reach large areas. Anywhere within the tower's field of vision, the mages could reach, and therefore cast spells.

High Tower used special communication stones and mathematics in order to direct spells over mountains and around obstacles. Thought highly effective, this technique was strangely never used by any other tower.





See also: Tower Magic