Tall City Lampposts
The streets of the Tall Cities are lined with tall, often ornate lamps that their current inhabitants do not know how to use. Something is meant to be piped into the lamps through a system of tubes, but experiments with oil have failed and setting candles in the lamps has proven to be extremely inefficient. Inhabitants of cities like Drusai have settled upon collectively viewing the lampposts as decoration or, instead of attempting to utilize them as they were intended, attaching torches to their poles at around Suktu head-height within the busiest sections of each Tall City.
Social Impact
Though most are entirely used to their presence and rarely think twice about them, for more introspective individuals, the lampposts are a reminder that their people did not create the Tall Cities and are not their intended inhabitants. Some find this unsettling, but most (especially the Suktu) find it exciting and see it as proof that they are indeed capable of utilizing anything and everything they find.
Access & Availability
Nobody who currently dwells within the Tall Cities has access to information allowing them to use the lampposts in the way their creators wanted, but in a show of Suktu ingenuity, they have done what they can to make them useful anyway. Luckily, the torches they hang on their poles are typically fairly easy to acquire and light for middle and upper-class citizens.
Complexity
The technology involved in lighting the lamps the "correct way" is obscure and difficult to understand for those who walk under them each night. The common way of using them is as simple as creating a torch holder that is tied or otherwise attached to the metal poles.
Discovery
The lampposts were among the most striking things witnessed by the first Suktu and Tsaamit who ventured into the Tall Cities due to their height, location along the broad abandoned avenues, and sometimes highly-decorated nature.
Related Species
Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
