Stepping into the Spire is like entering a different world. Smooth white walls reflect the light of a gigantic central pillar of glass filled with luminous energy as it stretches high into the Spire's apex. Arcs of lightning dance up and down the height of the tower in an electric blue storm. Stairs wind around the outer wall of the central core and break off at various points into walkways that lead to rooms in the shell of the Spire. Drooping from the central column, you also see hundreds of thick iron cables, much like the kind used to construct the Wire Road. These cables run into the walls outside each of the rooms above. You have never seen a structure like this before, and cannot imagine how this energy is contained, let alone harnessed for some intended purpose. At least there is no chance for any Shadow to exist here; the light is everywhere.

Your party cautiously ascends the staircase, peeking inside the peripheral rooms as you climb toward the apex. Inside the rooms, you find heavily decayed human remains, the bones of which turn to powder when you disturb them. Strangely, these corpses were not preserved like the ones found elsewhere in the city, some seem to sit in silent repose as though they died in their seats. Many simply fell where they stood and none show the damage indicative of combat that covers those outside. The mystery deepens as you reach the summit.

At the top of the central staircase, you come to a large ornate door which opens to a grand rotunda. This circular room is the very peak of the tower. The countless shelves of books and scrolls stored here lead you at first to believe it is some kind of archive, but you quickly learn it is much more than that. Devices and mechanisms of manifold form sit atop richly carved tables and other strange machines hang motionlessly from metal armatures attached to heavy bases.

One could spend years in this room, delving through its secrets. The knowledge hidden here could be useful to a Free Company. Unfortunately, you do not even have a day to spare with time being your most precious commodity in this forsaken city.