Twisted Tower

The oldest and most prominent building in Shadowdale, the Twisted Tower is the traditional home and seat of power of the lord and lady of Shadowdale, who are, at the present time, Lord Mourngrym and Lady Shaerl Rowanmantle. It was originally built by the Drow over a millennium ago though it has been continually rebuilt, and has been retrofitted for its present occupants.
The history of the Twisted Tower is the history of the Dale itself and its lords. The Twisted Tower takes its name from its off-balance appearing main tower, which is used as a landing platform for flying steeds.

History

Drow began construction of the Twisted Tower drow in −2600 DR, and was completed in −2549 DR. It was retained by the drow, and expanded twice in the decades following −750 DR. In −331 DR, coronals Connak and Tannivh Irithyl broke through the Twisted Tower's defenses with their elf armies, and destroyed the drow within, although the drow captured the Soldier's Blade in the process. The tower was handed over to good dark elves, and became a temple to Eilistraee within a hundred years. This period lasted until 194 DR, when drow, rising from the Underdark, again took the Tower and restored it to a military garrison.
Josidiah Starym, in his quest to reclaim the Soldier's Blade, caused the Tower to fall temporarily in 500 DR.
In 906 DR, the Tower's drow occupants, then led by marshall Azmaer Dhuurniv, were besieged for a year, had their well poisoned by a human slave, and were forced to flee back to the Underdark. This allowed humans to conquer the Tower, and the water wizard Ashaba became the first lord of Shadowdale. After Ashaba merged with the river in 940 DR, the Twisted Tower was renamed to the Twisted Tower of Ashaba in his honour.

Type

Tower