Any the orcs deemed worthy could share a drink or few with them, and didn't harass anyone who came to drink or deal there. It's a place for orcs and humans to meet, but not necessarily get along.īy 1479 DR, the place became neutral ground for the Many-Arrows orcs, the Neverwinter Guard, and other factions while the orc forces occupied the River District. Their celebration was the appearance of the falling mages and ran in fright, returning for their wine when it was clear there was no danger. More specifically, they discovered its wine store. Then, when a tribe of orcs from Many-Arrows invaded the River District in the late 1470s DR, they discovered the Fallen Tower. However, following the Ruining of Neverwinter in the Year of Knowledge Unearthed, 1451 DR, the Fallen Tower was left vacant. Instead, it became supposed the mages died in the Spellplague of 1385 DR. The Fallen Tower and its gruesome spectacle remained popular into the 15 th century, but the cause of the apparition was forgotten. Volo visited the Fallen Tower in the mid-1360s DR and wrote about it in his guidebook. Simultaneously, the slain wizard's two small trunks teleported away. The target happened to be an archmage, who turned the knife into two-dozen duplicates and turned them back, slicing the wizard to death. Instead, he got into a fight with another patron and hurled at him a deadly spell that conjured a flying knife. Īround 1353 DR, a wizard (a suspected Zhentarim mageling) visited the Fallen Tower to search for Llomnauvel's lost magic. So, naturally, people turned it into entertainment, and built a tavern around it. Spells like dispel magic were attempted a number of times without success. It happened regular as clockwork and never ceased. Īpart from the ruins of the tower, a bizarre after-affect was the nightly apparition of the last-surviving mages falling off where the tower had been in their gruesome death throes. But he was not able to defeat them all and when the maddened Firehands made his last stand, his final fiery spell destroyed the tower, the remaining mages, and himself. But Llomnauvel was prepared and spell-battle erupted, with magic flying like meteors through the night and mages turned to marine creatures flung into the sea. His tower was invaded circa 1335 DR by members of the Arcane Brotherhood led by Overwizard Glagorn intent on stealing his magic for themselves. Fortunately for the city, he would not get the chance. He was obsessed with mastering magic and then using it to seize power in Neverwinter. The former mage's tower was the home of a local wizard of some note, Llomnauvel 'Firehands' Oloadhin. This popularity continued into the 15 th century DR. In fact, its single selling point was its grisly nightly magical display. But, at first sight, all would be disappointed to find a distinctly average drinking hole little different from dozens of other roadside taverns.

Reputation Īs Neverwinter's most popular tavern in the 1360s DR, all visitors to the city were encouraged to visit at some point. Looking like a typical tavern, the Fallen Tower had a low-beamed ceiling, dim lighting, and the rough log-cut furniture basic but serviceable.

Some speculated these were once an abandoned and cut-off part of a dwarven stronghold or even a portion of the Underdark. The cellars were deep just how deep was unknown. Under the tower were a set of cellars that predated its construction. The privies were situated at the furthest end, sitting over a cesspit. The wine cellar and staff rooms were in the original circular structure, while the taproom was in the add-on. The stones of the collapsed upper section were reused to construct a single-story add-on. The tavern was constructed of fieldstone and circular in shape, owing to its origin as a ruined mage's tower. It marked the limit of human control of the area, with the Neverwinter Guard usually only patrolling up to here and no further. In the Neverwinter of the late 15 th century, the Fallen Tower lay near the northeastern edge of the city, in its River District.

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