The Tower of Vodores

An oddly shaped “tower”, the Tower of Vodores is a brutalist structure standing alone in the Plains of Stone (the badlands to the west of the kingdom, a huge natural boundary between the kingdom and its nearest western neighbours). The structure consists of a large upper section resting atop six fifty foot tall towers or “legs” – producing something much like a stone table of immense size with space beneath that never sees the full light of the sun.

Vodores was a goblin warlord who had this built by captive dwarves over the ruins of one of their own outposts razed by the goblin hordes. Vodores had clawed their way to the top of the goblin heap like any other goblin does – through cunning and deceit but mostly through sheer brutality. The strange structure stands as a testament to both Vodores’ ambition and the fear they instilled in their foes, as well as the skill of the surly dwarves who built it. The tower’s top-heavy design is both imposing and unsettling, the remnants of the old dwarven outpost appearing as something crushed and ignored underfoot, just poking out from the mud and shadows beneath the tower.

But goblin empires don’t last long, rarely even as long as their short-lived emperors, and never beyond their death. And so the Tower of Vodores became home to several goblin clans who spent more time fighting each other than raiding the surrounding lands. Today there are still two clans living in a stalemate within the structure, each using a different ‘leg’ to get in and out and divvying up the interior space between them in the goblin equivalent of a cold war (which involves espionage, traps, bribery, and of course cannibalism).

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,600 x 19,200 pixels (32 x 64 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares) – so resizing the image to 2,240 x 4,480 pixels or 4,480 x 8,960 pixels, respectively.

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