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I personally think evil ominous wizard towers are a bit cliche...what im thinking is, perhaps the reputation is not entirely deserved.
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Perhaps you are right. Maybe it was a tower of innocent wizards, attempting to do good for the world through bettering their magic. When one day, a few attempted to contact gods to end a plague or drought somewhere, but those gods were not as benevolent as they assumed, and so the tower was tainted and the once-good wizards became mindless, malicious minions.

Just an idea though, I won't edit it further and will just see what becomes of it XD