Mul Gjorhmzut

Mul Gjorhmzut (StDe: "Blacktower Island") is an island in the Eastern Ocean. Uninhabitted save for passing birds, the island consists entirely of a mostly empty eight-story tower made of black stone. The sky around the island is perpetually overcast and thundering, with occasional rain. The Island is claimed by Deysachin, but there is no consistant human activity.

Discovery

The YBS Sarrhu discovered Gjorhmzut on 30-12 57 PC, as part of their third expedition into the depths of the Eastern Ocean. Towards the end of their second expedition, they had discovered a series of stone pillars, ranging from.3 to 26 Ywls in height, forming a loose archipelago. At the start of the third expedition, they continued following this chain, and found Mul Gjorhmzut at its end.

Features

The tower of Gjorhmzut bares no resemblence to any known architectural style, save for suggested similarities to Temple Island. The tower appears to have been carved out of a mountain or sculpted in some unknown manner, due to there being no visable element of brickwork, though some posit this to actually be due to extreme erosion. The black stone the tower is composed of is of unknown composition, and cannot be pierced by any known means.

Internally, the tower is seperated into eight floors of irregular height, connected by a spiral staircase, whos steps are also of uneven size. The floors are mostly empty, save for old rusted chains, collections of guano, and an "obelisk of lumps" found on the fourth floor. The obelisk is also composed of the same black stone as the rest of the tower, but is too weathered to be made out as any shape. Some have suggested it has a vaguely humanoid shape. The obelisk is attached the floor, and cannot be moved.

The walls of the tower have markings carved into them by unknown means. The carvings are uniformly 0.53 inches deep, and comprise what looks to be some manner of script. Linguistic analysts suggest that, if the markings are indeed a script, it appears to be read bottom to top, right to left. On the fourth floor, the markings come in two highly symetric rows with a space in between, that connect at the begining and end, forming a near perfect loop across the circumference of the room. The fourth floor has by far the most markings, and floor eight has only two large symbols on opposite sides of the room. Floor eight has a number of symbols discolored into the floor, forming a ring. Floor seven has an unknown pattern of discolored markings on the floor, which do not resemble a script. Some have suggested that the floor-seven markings are a map of the Eastern Ocean, centered on Mul Gjorhmzut, due to the pressence of a splot vaguely resembling a conjoinment of the coasts of eee and Akaria, but this theory is not widely accepted due to the high degree of inaccuracy it would hold as a map.

Storm

The sky around the tower is perpetually thick with clouds, regardless of the weather patterns across the rest of the ocean. Thunder can be heard even when lightning is not seen. The cloud covering seems to extend exactly to the horizon as seen from the top of the tower.