Hi Ed, What can you reveal about the number of floors/dimensions of The Tower High (main tower, other buildings in the compound) and the uses of them, also building materials used- either in the home realms or the published (if it differs) – Many thanks as always~ GG Hi, Gareth! Much of the details of The Tower High are NDA, but here's what I can say: rectangular (street frontage is short wall) walled stone compound around cobbled coachyard, castle of black stone forms front gatehouse, wraps around on east side forming the compound wall, …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 15, 2018
2)…then continues to wrap along north (back) side where there's a back coach-arch w/portcullis entrance and a stables, then in NW, jutting S out from wall, is Manshoon's personal tower (abode, spellcasting). The "Tower High" that dominates all else, and had his dragon in spell-
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 15, 2018
3)…-stasis wrapped around it, is a seven-floor, round, eighty feet across at bottom but tapering sharply as it goes up turret rising behind the gatehouse. Visitors would enter through the gatehouse into a forehall, from which a wide, bare stone stair ascends many, many steps…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 15, 2018
4)…straight up (and rather steeply) to reach an audience chamber that takes up most of the third level of the tower (in the NE, there's a diagonal wall with closets and in the NE corner, a spiral stone stair behind it ascending to the levels above). Immediately above the…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 15, 2018
5)…audience chamber is a feasting-hall (we would say ornate dining room) with a long table and many tall windows; it and its garderobes and the audience chamber were all most visitors saw of the interior of the Tower High. There were flying swords and daggers, and many other…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 15, 2018
6 of 6)…guardians, including stone golems, automatons of Manshoon's own devising, and helmed horrors in abundance. Not to mention trained, loyal black falcons who served Manshoon as messengers. Also, beware the tapestries…
Hope these tidbits are of help. ;}— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 15, 2018