Need some models for a giant demon prison tower. Unfortunately, the Tower of London isn’t really a tower. The only ones I can think of are Ptolus and the himmel from Engel, but those are actually too big. Help? Should I be looking at lighthouses? Surely there’s something better.
Need some models for a giant demon prison tower.
Need some models for a giant demon prison tower.
Some of the Italian city state fortesses from the Borgia Era?
Orthanc from LOTR?
has to be a real life example? there’s lots of fantasy setting towers you can use.
Doesn’t have to be real life: both real and imaginary are cool. Orthanc is a good call, since some folks have surely created detailed floorplans.
Concept art from the Darksiders videogame;
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3787/952286-tower_copy.jpg
The ‘ole WotC Map-a-Week archive has some good towers IMO: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/mw
Cappadocia?
Great! If possible, I’m really looking for nice side or 3/4 views, rather than a top-down cutaway of floor-by-floor. The interior is going to be described rather than mapped, I think, because my sense is that works better in DW, leaving detailed maps up to individual groups.
How are the demons imprisoned? Or are they mortal prisoners? I was thinking of the High Clerists Tower from Dragonlance. Famously insecure with the giant hallways leading to its center – if the creature in the center of the tower was at mortal risk to the outside environment, the design would be a cool prison.
Say, for example, a demon lord were stuck in the tower and the tower were set on the side of Mount Celestia, with just a couple doors keeping out the searing light of utmost good…
Just an idea.
Pharos isn’t very cool looking, but might be a well-documented start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria
The prison does seperate both demons and mortals from one of the lesser hells, which is a good thing for both parties.
Cappadocia is a good call. In my mind, a lot of the visual language of Dis is inspired by the necropolis of Cairo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_the_Dead_(Cairo)
What about something between a cell tower and a siege tower. Frame wrapped in skin(s).
The tower I was thinking of: http://www.ageoflegends.com/_Media/high_clerist_tower.jpeg
I bet it’s bigger on the inside…
The tower from (a film version of) Stendahl’s The Charterhouse of Parma: http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll106/serdar002/la%20chartreuse%20de%20Parme%201948/chartreuse003.jpg
Or, you know, any of Brueghel’s paintings of the Tower of Babel.
Babel is definite, as are the various maps of Dante’s hell.
And you should add Piranesi, too.
How about the Prison Tower of Gdansk? http://www.uefaeuro2012.gdansk.pl/en/start,15,25.html
Or La Torre Guelfa del Castello di Rosazza? http://www.panoramio.com/m/photo/61363173
Thor, you are speaking my language.
Holy crap Piers Brown, you were spot-on with Piranesi’s imaginary prison illustrations. Wow.
Have been wanting to set a game in the Carceri for a while.
Yeah, um, I think I have illustrations for this now. Italy strikes again!
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http://i.imgur.com/52jVx.jpg
You meant a prison tower that’s a giant demon, right?
German flak towers: boxes of concrete hundreds of feet high with feet-thick bombproof walls, situated in urban areas. Essentially, aboveground dungeons / bomb shelters. Super creepy and shocking in their lack of decor. Cannot be destroyed today because to do so would require destruction of their entire surrounding neighborhood.
Tons of pictures online of these, here’s a good one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Flaktuerm-paar_augarten-wien.jpg
Cell phone tower inspires this thought: what if it isn’t walls holding the demon in place, but instead giant hooks of metal? It can hang suspended within as a warning to the world…
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/02/india.illegal.cellphone.towers/t1larg.tower.cnn.jpg
What about the Jesus statue in Rio de Janero, Brazil?
Thanks, folks, I think I’m set now, with all this great stuff to steal from. I hoe you’ll be excited by the results.
P.S. can’t believe I forgot Code of Unaris.