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Host Tower of the Arcane
Currently the academy of training for the Arcane Brotherhood, located in Luskan on Cutlass Island at the mouth of the River Marar.
This enormous (over 600ft tall) tree-shaped structure is hollowed out with stairs and rooms populated by members of the Arcane Brotherhood. Its most prominent four skyward-reaching "limbs" align with the north, south, east, and west. Each limb splits into smaller spires, towers, and balconies, whose interiors contained living quarters, laboratories, libraries, and summoning chambers. Even simple folk can feel the magic aura that emanates from the place, and it is treated with caution if not outright fear.
Lore tells the central and tallest spire is the home (or lair?) of the Arcane Brotherhood's leader, called the "Archmage Arcane", while the four compass-towers are for each of the Brotherhood's "Overwizards". The tower is known to be at least as old as the Dale Reckoning (1 DR), and before the Arcane Brotherhood housed a group of wizards called the Grand Cabal who ruled the city and lands for centuries, gaining undead immortality as Liches. Older legends say the tower is thousands of years old, discovered by the first explorers to reach the North.
The tower was nearly destroyed about 100 years ago, during an invasion of Luskan by Waterdeep. Several years ago (1486 DR), the tower was "regenerated" - seeming to regrow its strange rocky composition.
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