'NYATHL IKALITH' 'SILENT TOWER' 'AYERTHL ZELAATH' (875)
To some, it represents the final destination of the self-described Biomancer, Sz'sra, the goal for which he strove and some of the reason he composed his unusual thesis. It could well represent a place where some of the answers to questions raised by the saurian wizard's sojourn may be found. To others, it is a place of wonder, built by and filled with forgotten magics. To tread those sterile halls would be to gaze into the past and see both potential and power. To others, it is a cesspool, a location where ancient archmages of unspeakable power have chosen to congregate for reasons unguessed by most. Only with their deaths will Thera ever be safe from the shadow of their cruel whims reaching out from their sometime prison to twist and destroy without warning. To others still, it is a treasure hunter's dream or drunken story, a place filled with wealth and items of power and wonder ripe for the taking -- should one have the will to plunder and the cunning to find the way between. All these things and more it is, what some have called the Silent Tower and others Nyathl Ikalith. The well-travelled may have once seen words, hammered into rock to advise for all time: "Assume nothing. Expect everything." They would be wise to heed these words. For, should one chase a place of legend and actually find it, one might find that much of what they had taken for granted about the nature of reality was not necessarily so. The ways to the Tower are many, and you may notice that chance is it finds you instead of you finding it. Good luck. You have no idea yet how badly you will need it.