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The Seven Spires
🕑 Added 2019-01-17 20:16:20 +0000 UTCRaised by a talented Wizard-Noble of old Phalorm, the Seven Spires is a small ornate castle made of seven overlapping towers set on the edge of the Neverwinter woods.
The small castle was used officially as a research space for the wizard-noble, but also served as an escape from court politics in the young war-based nation of Phalorm, and as a watch point over the growing orc menace in the region. Being fairly close to the settlement of Neverwinter, ties were maintained with that growing settlement and information about the movement of the orcs was exchanged.
The Seven Spires were unfortunately built on a dirt plain where bedrock was too deep to dig down to. In time this means the spires are doomed to slow collapse as the weight of the towers presses down and outwards on the foundations.
Whether or not Phalorm survives the orc hordes it was meant to defy (it doesn't, the orcs destroy it less than a century after it was founded), there is only so much time before the years will do the orcs' work for them and the towers begin to collapse upon themselves. Less than 900 years later, the seven spires will look more like a jagged collection of broken teeth than the castle as shown here.
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Dyson Logos
I actually hunted down Ed for some background: Prior to becoming Castle Cragmaw, it was one of three identical castles built by Konstal Cragar (whom very few humans knew was a mere front for a dwarf stronghold-building firm run by Clan Blackstone) - all three were called Castle Crag.
Brett Lee
That looks *remarkably* similar to Cragmaw Castle from the D&D 5e starter set. That fact that you mention it being in Neverwinter Woods only makes it more coincidental... you don’t suppose it was later taken over by a clan of goblins do you?
David Ross
Do you have a sketch from the outside? Would be cool to see and show off as characters approach it.
