Hope your medical issues are treating you well @TheEdVerse. I have a hopefully simple question – what exactly are the "torchtowers" in Waterdeep? I get the impression they are like signal towers, but are they a specific set of towers?
— Sundered|🐜|ENVTuber (@Sundered_Ant) October 17, 2021
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I’m tired from my annual stress echo, but okay, just suffering through the 2 weeks of wearing a Holter heart monitor that gets in the way of everything.
Every tower along the city walls has three beacon-fires laid ready for lighting (if a beacon has to be kept… 2)
…alight a long time, the unlit two get cannibalized as fuel for the lit one, as more firewood is brought up from storerooms below in the tower), but "torchtowers" is the collective name for wall-towers that aren't also city gates or major "moot-towers" where…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021
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…walls meet. So any "just another tower" along the wall is a torchtower. (Every walltower contains dungeon cells, a Watch "ready room," locked storage rooms for evidence/confiscated items retention, some bedchambers and garderobes, and a tiny armory.)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 17, 2021