[quote=@Vahir]
Would the tower and the Devoted still be around in the present day? Or was it abandoned over the last thousand years?
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Short answer? Yes and no.

I've been thinking about that quite a bit since I made my post.  I'm not sure how much magic ability Eyra had when she got that far south, but I'd imagine that it was enough so that, with an army backing her, she could have wiped out the Devoted—it would the sort of thing Etruscans would tell horror stories about, even centuries after it happened, but it could be done.  After that, I'd imagine she'd want to take the books and scrolls inside for her own purposes, but she could destroy them if you like.

But bringing down the tower itself would be a bit trickier.  This was the stronghold of someone who had the greatest thirst for knowledge the world had ever known—and with that comes a lot of [i]magical[/i] knowledge.  Add into that a hefty predisposition towards the arcane, and it rapidly becomes clear that it's going to take some serious juice to bring it to the ground.  Eyra could [i]potentially[/i] have been strong enough in her prime (that is really up to you, since you designed her), but it would have taken a [i]lot[/i] out of her.  It just wouldn't be an effective use of her time and energy.

So, the Devoted are gone, but the tower's still standing, and time isn't going to grind it down into dust.

EDIT: I don't know if anyone even saw this before I edited it, but I redid some awkward and unclear wording.  And fixed a typo.