Edit History: Persistant Towers On The Beast

When	Who	Kind	Summary
3d ago	Aurelius	marginalia	Was pretty sure the towers were from before it broken, yeah, and they must respawn in whatever shape the sundering left them in when Beast's cycle restarts.
3d ago	Salme	marginalia	Adding a link here to this image I received from the Mother of Monsters in the folio on [The Unsundered World](https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/library/the-unsundered-world#entry-3145). Your towers were visible here, Aury---whole and complete. I think ... I think it might imply that the safe predates the sundering of the world?
Aug 05, 2026	Aurelius	marginalia	Only the cave comes to mind from what I saw/remember. Good thought about the gates, tho it's not like the Samudra one was in the city, exactly... Hmm, I wonder if there's a tower above where the gate below the surface winds up being. But no, nothing at the location I scouted out.
Aug 05, 2026	Salme	marginalia	It is strange that there's not really anything on Almachadta that's similar? Unless it's the Sword-Saint's cave? The pedestal the Mask rests on certainly doesn't look like anything that belongs on Almachadta at all. (Though if it's the cave, and the city in Samudra---those are both where the ... potential to open gates are located, right? But you didn't sense anything like that around the towers on the Beast, right?) I want to get to that city in Samudra somehow.
Aug 05, 2026	Aurelius	marginalia	That was also a thought I had, yeah. Do note that SQ mentioned that whenever.... whatever happens on the Beast and it restarts, that the Towers are Already There (and the machine inside is fucked up too) so... yeah, hard to imagine it could be anything other than remnants of the pre-sundered world, and when it fragmented each plane took something with it? That city under the ice in Samudra being more or less still in one piece is even crazier in the light.
Aug 05, 2026	Aurelius	marginalia	That was my take, yeah. idk necessarily about loved, but thought they were important, at least.
Aug 05, 2026	Salme	marginalia	Oh I guess I should have read the whole folio. This is exactly what I was thinking. Though. Do you think that ... I don't even know how this would work, but parts of the presundered world somehow ended up in different planes? Like---is the First City in the Septentrione something that was built on Samudra, or was it built before?
Aug 05, 2026	Salme	marginalia	Holy shit. Well. That's going to be useful?
Aug 05, 2026	Salme	marginalia	So someone ... crafted these towers and was so proud of them they ... photographed them, and then stored the photographs somewhere they would last forever? For ... since the first cycle of the Beast? Since before that?
Aug 05, 2026	Aurelius	prolegomenon	Included are several pictures taken of the primary tower from the outside and the surrounding area, as well as the surrounding area from Aurelius' current perspective, show against the old photos of it found. Then several more of the inside of the tower, the machine that took up most of its space, and the part samples of whatever it built once upon a time. Then a few more in depth memories.
Aug 05, 2026	Aurelius	entries	added: post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ One of the towers is just a total dud; it was picked over probably generations), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ One of the towers is just a total dud; it was picked over probably generations), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ It looks like a place where things were built, once. Dominating the space is t), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (inspects the machine for a while, until determining that's it's right and proper), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Infrastructure, it looks like. A bunch of very complicated elaborate mechanism), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (glances around the room - does the room take up the entirety of the structure, o), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ This room takes up most of this floor, but not all of it, and specifically the), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ It's-- not living quarters, exactly, but there's a shitty little bed in a corn), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ On the desk is a black sphere with little irregular lines carved into it, curv), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "Wait, pictures? Have we seen anything implying they have photography here?), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ They don't look like alarmingly-detailed, aged beyond belief, and then chemica), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (glances around the room again, then move over towards the desk and runs a hand u), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Yeah, it's right there where you expected it to be. There's a satisfying 'clic), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (pulls them out of the hutch, before spreading them out on top of the table.), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Glancing at the plates, you realise that if you put them together the right wa), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "So, okay. Air tight lock box surrounded by paper degraded past the point of ), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "Oh the papers were inside too - fuck that's old."), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "Must have been right after the split, or maybe even presundering... would tha), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (taps at the side of his cheek in thought, then nods to himself and glances aroun), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Doesn't seem like it.), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (takes a couple samples of whatever it was the machine was built to make on the w) · added note: "Outside the Tower(s)", added note: "Side Area", added note: "Checking over the rest of the things / Annarr's notes" · deleted: post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ One of the towers is just a total dud; it was picked over probably generations) · edited note: "Outside the Tower(s) / Main Area"

3d ago

Aurelius

marginalia

Was pretty sure the towers were from before it broken, yeah, and they must respawn in whatever shape the sundering left them in when Beast's cycle restarts.

3d ago

Salme

marginalia

Adding a link here to this image I received from the Mother of Monsters in the folio on [*The Unsundered World*](https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/library/the-unsundered-world#entry-3145). Your towers were visible here, Aury---whole and complete. I think ... I think it might imply that the safe predates the sundering of the world?

Aug 05, 2026

Aurelius

marginalia

Only the cave comes to mind from what I saw/remember. Good thought about the gates, tho it's not like the Samudra one was in the city, exactly... Hmm, I wonder if there's a tower above where the gate below the surface winds up being. But no, nothing at the location I scouted out.

Aug 05, 2026

Salme

marginalia

It is strange that there's not really anything on Almachadta that's similar? Unless it's the Sword-Saint's cave? The pedestal the Mask rests on certainly doesn't look like anything that belongs on Almachadta at all. (Though if it's the cave, and the city in Samudra---those are both where the ... potential to open gates are located, right? But you didn't sense anything like that around the towers on the Beast, right?) I want to get to that city in Samudra somehow.

Aug 05, 2026

Aurelius

marginalia

That was also a thought I had, yeah. Do note that SQ mentioned that whenever.... whatever happens on the Beast and it restarts, that the Towers are Already There (and the machine inside is fucked up too) so... yeah, hard to imagine it could be anything other than remnants of the pre-sundered world, and when it fragmented each plane took something with it? That city under the ice in Samudra being more or less still in one piece is even crazier in the light.

Aug 05, 2026

Aurelius

marginalia

That was my take, yeah. idk necessarily about loved, but thought they were important, at least.

Aug 05, 2026

Salme

marginalia

Oh I guess I should have read the whole folio. This is exactly what I was thinking. Though. Do you think that ... I don't even know how this would work, but parts of the presundered world somehow ended up in different planes? Like---is the First City in the Septentrione something that was built on Samudra, or was it built before?

Aug 05, 2026

Salme

marginalia

Holy shit. Well. That's going to be useful?

Aug 05, 2026

Salme

marginalia

So someone ... crafted these towers and was so proud of them they ... photographed them, and then stored the photographs somewhere they would last forever? For ... since the first cycle of the Beast? Since before that?

Aug 05, 2026

Aurelius

prolegomenon

Included are several pictures taken of the primary tower from the outside and the surrounding area, as well as the surrounding area from Aurelius' current perspective, show against the old photos of it found. Then several more of the inside of the tower, the machine that took up most of its space, and the part samples of whatever it built once upon a time. Then a few more in depth memories.

Aug 05, 2026

Aurelius

entries

added: post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ One of the towers is just a total dud; it was picked over probably generations), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ One of the towers is just a total dud; it was picked over probably generations), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ It looks like a place where things were built, once. Dominating the space is t), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (inspects the machine for a while, until determining that's it's right and proper), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Infrastructure, it looks like. A bunch of very complicated elaborate mechanism), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (glances around the room - does the room take up the entirety of the structure, o), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ This room takes up most of this floor, but not all of it, and specifically the), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ It's-- not living quarters, exactly, but there's a shitty little bed in a corn), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ On the desk is a black sphere with little irregular lines carved into it, curv), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "Wait, pictures? Have we seen anything implying they have photography here?), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ They don't look like alarmingly-detailed, aged beyond belief, and then chemica), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (glances around the room again, then move over towards the desk and runs a hand u), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Yeah, it's right there where you expected it to be. There's a satisfying 'clic), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (pulls them out of the hutch, before spreading them out on top of the table.), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Glancing at the plates, you realise that if you put them together the right wa), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "So, okay. Air tight lock box surrounded by paper degraded past the point of ), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "Oh the papers were inside too - fuck that's old."), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (: "Must have been right after the split, or maybe even presundering... would tha), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (taps at the side of his cheek in thought, then nods to himself and glances aroun), post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ Doesn't seem like it.), post by Aurelius in Black Mirror (takes a couple samples of whatever it was the machine was built to make on the w) · added note: "Outside the Tower(s)", added note: "Side Area", added note: "Checking over the rest of the things / Annarr's notes" · deleted: post by The Dragon in Black Mirror (ꙮ One of the towers is just a total dud; it was picked over probably generations) · edited note: "Outside the Tower(s) / Main Area"