Historical Architecture - Part 2

Haiga's Clock

Along the western coast of Maxitone, the oldest settled continent is the vast forest of Wedra, stretching thousands of miles along the coast. This forest is the homeland of the Torin, where they were placed by the gods with the command to guard the forests of the world. Many Torin have since moved on, but most of them remain here.

Less than a hundred years after Torin were created, there was a Torin named Haiga born into one of the families who had taken it upon themselves to organize the people, these families were th nobles of the Torin folk, and while not quite he same as the noble of the humans they sufficed. Haiga was a passionate torin, and his first great passion was a toy brought from far away human lands, a small clockwork statue that would walk about, and a true marvel of engineering at the time. He spent many years obsessing over the way the gears meshed together seamlessly, and even after he was banished from his homeland (which is another story althogether) he retained the passion for the smooth and seamless workings. In fact, in common history, he is heralded as the father of clockworks, although it is obvious to those with more informaton that it is impossible, it is agreed that it was the torin who brought clockworks into the hands of the common man.

Haiga built over the years a number of creations, each grander than the last (although none of them quite as delicate or precise as the toy he admired as a child). Eventually, he found himself needing to know the time of the day it was precisely, for being immortal (which is really a story for another day) the times and days belended together into a great blur. And so, Haiga returned to one of the sites where he had battled dragons along heroes of the past, heroes who had all moved on to other lives, or ascended into a more complete existance, and asides the town he began to build a massive structure, four stories tall, and stradding a small river.

This structure contained a waterwheel at it's base, and a mill for the local villagers, but the wheel would power his most impressive structure yet - which he named 'A Clock'. This tower had four great glass faces, each one revealing the exact time of day to the distance and could be seen for miles around. Haiga's Clock, as it is know today is the first precise timepeice on Ronar, and it's inner workings have been sealed off from others to examine - all people know is that the clock continued to count exact times of day even during the droughts when there were no water, and during the floods, while the wheel was spinning furiously. The building itself is rather delapidated now, but so far the clock has been respected by wariors, and passed over by weather. Perhaps the immortal still visits and maintains it, for he has not been seen in many years, perhaps he lives inside.