The spire
Purpose / Function
The spire is located at the middle of the expedition camp grounds and serves as the heart of its efforts. It houses the most important and most sensitive equipment, as well as providing luxurious apartments for senior research staff.
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Spire entrance : The main entrance to the tower is almost identical to the ones found in the mages towers in Celendra, the dominant material being carefully polished and softly glowing magesstone.
Private quarters of senior staff: Several senior members of the expedition each have an apartment covering half a floor, leaving only the staircase and a central transportation shaft in the middle of the tower free for public access
Courtroom: The floor right below the top flour is mostly taken up by what is jokingly referred to as "the courtroom" by the junior staff and students, and this monicker has kind of stuck with the higher ranking people too. This impressive room is a strange hybrid between a courtroom and a nobles court, which should not make it surprising that the name stuck. Whoever decorated this room spared no expense to impose a sense of humility on those who enter it and the room has an air of calm severity and seriousness.
The acuiratorium: The top floor of the tower is completely taken up by a complex array of crystals embedded in a massive clockwork machine, which looks somewhat like a planetarium. The windows in this room are at different heights, are of different sizes, and sometimes slanted at odd angles. At any given time of the day, young students and apprentices are busy making minor adjustments to the machinery and the windows.
Laboratories and libraries: no mages tower would be complete without. Both the laboratories and the library are surprisingly well-stocked. This expedition appears to be surprisingly well funded and supplied.
Architecture
The main tower of the expedition site is obviously constructed using magic. The dull gray stone is seamless and smooth, but for the occasional wave-like ripple in its surface. It emanates a soft warm white glow from its surface that bathes the camp in a pleasant glow.
Two huge banners hang from the tower, the largest of the two is a marine blue banner with three towers in a triangle. A smaller banner, but much more elaborately decorated is a dove gray banner with a series of tools in different metallic colors.
- The marine banner with the three towers is a symbol commonly used to indicated a shared effort of the three mages towers from Celendra. In recent years it has not been used often, due to "differences in insight"
- The dove gray banner is the banner of the university of technology and magic from albeos.
Type
Tower, Mage
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