The Archon’s Tower

“The Master at the Table”, said to be a sphinx in humanoid form, once ruled these lands for many miles around. This tower is said to be where he would look over the lands, from the parapets of blue stone much akin to the massive pillars in the distant City of Blue. The Master at the Table was said to infiltrate many regional societies and organizations, posing as a human, an elf, even a dragon, and supposedly even once as a goose. It would then gather information, manipulate events, and influence people to serve their interests and the interests of its small sphinxdom. But more importantly to adventurers, combining this espionage and manipulation with its knack for legendary lore, it could uncover ancient secrets, artifacts, and spells.

The Master is ancient history, the tower no longer the centre of a sphinxdom, and others now use the strange blue structure and the tunnels beneath. But an oracle has seen visions of this blue spire and treasures hidden within – spells in the form of riddles that must be solved to be learned, and an artifact from another world that can change history itself. And what are the odds that this oracle is actually The Master at the Table, now returned and seeking to regain its own lost treasures?

The Archon’s Tower has four surface levels here, built partially into the rocky hillside, with only two levels being completely free-standing. The level below the rooftop is not accessible via the spiral stairs, and is instead only accessible from the level below it – by bringing a ladder, climbing the stone walls, or some form of levitation or flying to get up to the small archway 25 feet above the floor below. The underground level features a memorial of the Archon, the Master at the Table, but also has a small passageway that leads to older structures beneath – the real reason the Archon built the tower here…

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,800 pixels (36 squares) wide. 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‘ foot squares) – so resizing the image to 2,520 pixels or 5,040 pixels wide, respectively.

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