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The round towers in Lowor were designed and built to facilitate the wizards' ability to pull the magic of the elements through the stones of Power. The concepts and skills required were not recorded and were forgotten a generation or two after the Magic was brought to Lowor.
The white stones used to build the towers are a limestone (which has paramagnetic properties) that is almost as hard and smooth as marble. The stones can be found nowhere else in Lowor. Loworians also no longer know how to make glass and that substance can be found only in the windows of the four towers.
Each level of each tower has 15-foot ceilings. Floors a foot thick, covered with stone facing, separate the levels. The tower roof is 64 feet above ground (not including the height of the parapet). The towers are 41 feet in diameter (128-foot circumference) with 962 square feet on each level. The walls are a little more than three feet thick.
Four arched windows on each level look in the four directions: north, south, east, west. A staircase winds inside the outer tower wall which requires part of the ceiling on each level to be sloped to accommodate the stairs. All doorways also are arched. The doors are mahogany, a tree which does not grow in Lowor.
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