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Post by Father on May 19, 2024 11:46:12 GMT 1
Connected to the city by a stone causeway as wide as a Valyrian road, Battle Island guards the entrance to the port and serves as the seat of House Hightower. It's base is a cavernous and gloomy fortress of ancient black stone, it's origins catching the imagination of many a maester, believed to predate the first men, speculations as to its origins have occupied dozens of maesters since the founding of the citadel. The Hightowers ruled here as kings, and built the tower and its beacon to build the wealth of the city, once of wood, it has been rebuilt and expanded several times, now standing taller than the wall itself and noted as one of Lomas Longstriders great wonders made by man. The Hightowers themselves have their personal quarters in the tower, surely more pleasing than the dark halls below.
The Grand Hall feels more like a cavern, with its walls fused together as if by dragonfire to be smooth and flat as if polished and carved for centuries without end. Draperies and lanterns can only do so much to dampen its eerie nature.
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