Living ENWorld:Delmon's Tower
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Delmon's Tower
- The path from the road to Fallon to Delmon�s tower is three miles long.
- Delmon�s Tower, about 15 miles southeast of Orussus, lies in "low and easy hills".
- Delmon�s Tower is 4 stories and 60 feet tall. It is in some need of repair, and has an iron-studded door a few steps off the ground.
- The lowest windows in Delmon�s Tower are about 25 feet from the ground.
- There is no cover within 30 feet of Delmon�s tower.
- The bottom floor of Delmon�s tower is a round room 80 feet in diameter. The exit is through a wooden door opposite the entrance, at the top of a stairway 12 feet above the floor.
- There are some trees with low-hanging branches near Delmon�s tower.
- The room beyond the door at the top of the stairs inside the first floor of Delmon�s Tower is a dining room or guest chamber.
- The platform at the top of the stairs inside the first floor of Delmon�s Tower is only 5 feet wide.
- There is a stairway leading up to another door from the second-floor "dining room" or "guest room" in Delmon�s Tower.
- The third floor of Demon�s Tower is a living room. A stairway opposite the entrance to the room leads up to the fourth floor.
- The fourth floor of Delmon�s Tower is occupied by another living room. There is a door on the entrance, opposite stairs leading up to a fifth(?) floor.
- There is an opening about 20 foot from the floor of the fourth-floor "living room" in Demon�s Tower that might lead to the fifth(?) floor.
- The fifth(?) floor of Delmon�s Tower is a bedroom, with a canopy bed.
-Recompiled by El Jefe
Oddities in the Structure of Delmon's Tower
There are stairs leading up 11 feet from the ground to the iron door of the first level. From there, stairs lead up 12 feet to the second (dining room or guest room) level. The lowest windows are 25 feet from the ground. If the first level is that high, nothing fits, so I'm assuming that the first level is windowless and the lowest windows light the dining room. Windowsills more than 2 feet high make little sense in a dwarf's home, so I'm going with the 2nd floor being 23 feet off the ground. The stairs between the first and second floor are described as being 12 feet high, so subtracting tells me the outside stairs to the first floor are 11 feet high.
Now, the 4th floor has an opening 1 foot high, and 20 feet off the floor. If the whole thing is 60 feet tall and the opening is right up against the ceiling, that means the 4th floor has at least a 21-foot ceiling, and thus the floor must be no higher than 39 feet off the ground. That's 16 feet higher than the 2nd floor, so if you split the difference, the 3rd flloor would be 8 feet above the 2nd floor, or at the 31-foot level. Now, if the floors/ceilings are about 1 foot thick, that would mean the 2nd and 3rd levels have 7-foot ceilings. That's just a tad short for humans (most human houses have ceilings at about 7'6"), but just about right -- even spacious -- for a dwarf. We know the bedroom floor is 8 feet below the "window" to the 4th floor, so it has a 9-foot ceiling and is at the 51-foot level. To summarize:
1st floor - Great Hall -- 11 feet from the ground 2nd floor - Dining Room -- 23 feet from the ground 3rd floor - Living Room 1 -- 31 feet from the ground 4th floor - Living Room 2 -- 39 feet from the ground 5th floor - Loft Bedroom -- 51 feet from the ground Roof -- 60 feet from the ground.
Weird, but possible.
-Calculated by El Jefe
