City of Towers [Archive] - Wizards Community

City of Towers [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Restless
10-23-04, 05:16 PM I was thinking, exactly how large is an average tower in the City of Towers. Sharn, which is described as a huge urban jungle makes me think that the towers would be massive, far beyond anything we have acheived in our current world, but that seems farfetched for some reason. Also, in the description for Fairhaven the massive royal complex is said to have some towers eighteen stories high, which by our standards is somewhat average. So, how high do you think the Towers of Sharn reach?
Lissa
10-23-04, 07:57 PM Don't know how tall the towers in Sharn are but taller than Fairhaven is a good guess. Also the bottom levels contain the sewer system and who knows what else. They're a great place to hide stuff or explore for forgotten treasure.
Restless
10-24-04, 02:19 AM I agree. I don't think there has been an official size given, but I was mainly wondering how big people have been portraying them in their campagins. I have been showing them as larger than life, my self. I guess we'll find out for sure in the Sharn book. (Can't wait, can't wait, gonna be so cool!)
Mort_Q
10-24-04, 02:40 AM Soon.... very soon... I'm intrigued. (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/eberron/864200000)

Free CD soundtrack -- nine tracks of original cinema-quality music to evoke the mood of Eberron on an audio CD bundled with the book
stone_dog
10-24-04, 03:52 AM For more than two millenia, the towers of Sharn have grown, rising thousands of feet into the sky.

Thousands of feet. Quite possibly pushing a mile vertically. Being placed in a manifest zone permanently connected to Syrania allows you to tell physics to shove it and build insanely tall structures. They STILL don't have access to the building technology that we have so I am going to say that there isn't as much room inside one of these things as we can pack into a skyscraper.

Now the Fairhaven towers might only be eighteen stories themselves, but what are they standing on? They might be the tallest towers in Sharn as far as altitude goes, but are just sitting on other towers beneath them.

Also...
Plunge into perilous aerial battles miles above the earth.

MILES. Plural. Wow. Someone might well be able to get tired of screaming after a fall and decide to kill themselves rather than wait for the impact. Assuming they miss sky coaches and bridges and everything.

You might have areas down at the bottom where there are yearly festivals for when the sun finally peeks down at a plaza for a few minutes a year. Hey, people will pick any excuse to have a party.

Then again I am probably just up WAY too late to be harping on this sort of thing. Suffice to say Sharn is most likely tall enough to give a New Yorker a crick in his neck from looking up..
smrtgmp
10-24-04, 05:07 AM I swear in one of the dragon shard articles it mentioned some of the towers being a mile high. Or maybe it was in the Sharn section of the ECS. Or maybe I'm completely delusional. In all likely hood its door number three.
Iron_Peanut
10-24-04, 05:45 AM I throw my 2 CP in for miles high, too. Magic construction and the local manifest zone throw modern engineering out the window. Towers get built on towers get built on towers. The whole place is probably taller than it is wide.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Restless 10-23-04, 05:16 PM	I was thinking, exactly how large is an average tower in the City of Towers. Sharn, which is described as a huge urban jungle makes me think that the towers would be massive, far beyond anything we have acheived in our current world, but that seems farfetched for some reason. Also, in the description for Fairhaven the massive royal complex is said to have some towers eighteen stories high, which by our standards is somewhat average. So, how high do you think the Towers of Sharn reach?
Lissa 10-23-04, 07:57 PM	Don't know how tall the towers in Sharn are but taller than Fairhaven is a good guess. Also the bottom levels contain the sewer system and who knows what else. They're a great place to hide stuff or explore for forgotten treasure.
Restless 10-24-04, 02:19 AM	I agree. I don't think there has been an official size given, but I was mainly wondering how big people have been portraying them in their campagins. I have been showing them as larger than life, my self. I guess we'll find out for sure in the Sharn book. (Can't wait, can't wait, gonna be so cool!)
Mort_Q 10-24-04, 02:40 AM	Soon.... very soon... I'm intrigued. (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/eberron/864200000) Free CD soundtrack -- nine tracks of original cinema-quality music to evoke the mood of Eberron on an audio CD bundled with the book
stone_dog 10-24-04, 03:52 AM	For more than two millenia, the towers of Sharn have grown, rising thousands of feet into the sky. Thousands of feet. Quite possibly pushing a mile vertically. Being placed in a manifest zone permanently connected to Syrania allows you to tell physics to shove it and build insanely tall structures. They STILL don't have access to the building technology that we have so I am going to say that there isn't as much room inside one of these things as we can pack into a skyscraper. Now the Fairhaven towers might only be eighteen stories themselves, but what are they standing on? They might be the tallest towers in Sharn as far as altitude goes, but are just sitting on other towers beneath them. Also... Plunge into perilous aerial battles miles above the earth. MILES. Plural. Wow. Someone might well be able to get tired of screaming after a fall and decide to kill themselves rather than wait for the impact. Assuming they miss sky coaches and bridges and everything. You might have areas down at the bottom where there are yearly festivals for when the sun finally peeks down at a plaza for a few minutes a year. Hey, people will pick any excuse to have a party. Then again I am probably just up WAY too late to be harping on this sort of thing. Suffice to say Sharn is most likely tall enough to give a New Yorker a crick in his neck from looking up..
smrtgmp 10-24-04, 05:07 AM	I swear in one of the dragon shard articles it mentioned some of the towers being a mile high. Or maybe it was in the Sharn section of the ECS. Or maybe I'm completely delusional. In all likely hood its door number three.
Iron_Peanut 10-24-04, 05:45 AM	I throw my 2 CP in for miles high, too. Magic construction and the local manifest zone throw modern engineering out the window. Towers get built on towers get built on towers. The whole place is probably taller than it is wide.