Description

A squat, ancient-looking stone tower belonging to the visiting mechanomancer Manthrak the Meticulous, found - when it can be found at all - on the western edge of Neverwinter Woods. It serves as his home, his laboratory, and the site of his most ambitious (and most catastrophic) experiments in mechanomancy and artifice.
The tower is built wider at its base than its crown, a structural quirk that makes it deceptively top-heavy for a building otherwise dressed in solid, unremarkable masonry. Its windows are few and heavily fortified, more like arrow-slits than anything meant for light, and its single door is sealed with the kind of mechanism normally reserved for vaults rather than homes. Inside, the tower rises through several distinct working floors, each given over to a different stage of Manthrak's craft — an aura engine of pipework and suspended crystal, a warehouse of locked cabinets and stranger finished projects, and at the very top, a workshop dominated by a great console and a rack of glowing, labelled crystals.
What unsettles visitors most, when they bother to look closely, is the tower's foundation: deep grooves and scarring circle its base, the unmistakable signature of a structure that has, on more than one occasion, left its plot of land entirely and gone rolling off through the Woods under its own power. Locals give it a respectful distance for this reason. The tower is not always where one left it, and Manthrak — when asked about this — tends to change the subject to something involving tensors.
Most who have entered describe the experience as deeply disorientating, on account of the floors not reliably staying where floors are meant to stay.

Travel

Based on 8 hrs walking per day with Exhaustion Level 0

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