Old Light

The Old Light is a ruin on the northwest end of the town of Sandpoint, overlooking the Varisian Gulf.

Townsfolk say, in accordance with Varisian oral tradition, that the Old Light is an ancient ruined lighthouse. However, Sandpoint's learned sage, Brodert Quink, insists that it was a war machine of ancient Thassilonian construction, built to project fire over large distances to incinerate any invasion forces.

"I knew it! I said that the Old Light was no mere lighthouse - that's just what the local Varisians called it and what the settlers then called it after them. It's what I moved here to study! You've read my monograph on it, haven't you? I sent it to the University of Korvosa, the Twilight Academy in Galduria, even the Arcanamirium in Absalom...no attention, no attention at all.

"It's a war machine, my boy. Not a lighthouse! I believe when it stood at its full height it would spew fire to a distance of over a mile! Such a thing could devastate any armies arrayed against it. Of course most scholars don't agree with me, but that just demonstrates their lack of imagination as well as their short supply of wits..."

--Brodert Quink