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The Lighthouse

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Bad Alias:
Especially when the wizard's tower is located in the middle of the woods without any trail leading to it.

I assume magic is often used. Either directly or indirectly. An example of indirectly would be summoning laborers from the Nevernever and perhaps even transporting the stone through the Nevernever.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 01, 2020, 07:45:11 PM ---Wherever towers were built for wizards it's always glossed over how they moved the tons of stone required to build them.  Castle builders in the real world had labor, something in short supply in the Chicago area prior to the European incursion, and quarried stone.

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The excavation of the underground stairs is the most likely source for the stone. I doubt the OG Merlin would have needed labourers - cutting bedrock out of the ground in square pieces and levitating it where he wanted would be about the least challenging part of constructing Demonreach.

toodeep:
Especially since the genus locus might have done any actual physical labor involved

Mira:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 01, 2020, 07:45:11 PM ---Wherever towers were built for wizards it's always glossed over how they moved the tons of stone required to build them.  Castle builders in the real world had labor, something in short supply in the Chicago area prior to the European incursion, and quarried stone.

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  Merlin no doubt would have the mastery of "earth magic," so that might account for it.  However do not discount the native civilizations Pre-Colombian.  The Inca for example managed to quarry, move, and put in place massive stones of many tons without even the benefit of the wheel..  Several of the peoples prior to the Aztecs, and even the Maya the same, the Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest were excellent engineers, as where those who built the large mounds along the Missouri River..  So it cannot be totally discounted in my opinion that Merlin might have either recruited the peoples to help him in his task.. Or he may have taught them and after the island was finished resettled them where we find the ruins of their civilizations today.

morriswalters:
One simple solution is that it was a light house, built at the same time as the town and taken over after running the people who lived there off.  Why build when you can appropriate.

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