Twisted Tower of Ashaba

The Twisted Tower of Ashaba was the home and seat of power of the lord and lady of Shadowdale. The tower, originally known simply as the Twisted Tower, took its name from the first human lord of the dale, the water wizard Ashaba.

History
Drow began construction of the Twisted Tower in, and completed it in. It was retained by the drow, and expanded twice in the decades following.

In, coronals Connak and Tannivh Irithyl broke through the Twisted Tower's defenses with their elf armies, and destroyed the drow within, although the drow captured the Soldier's Blade in the process. The tower was handed over to good dark elves, and became a temple to Eilistraee within a hundred years. This period lasted until the, when drow, rising from the Underdark, again took the Tower and restored it to a military garrison.

Josidiah Starym, in his quest to reclaim the Soldier's Blade, caused the Tower to fall temporarily in the.

In the, the Tower's drow occupants, then led by marshal Azmaer Dhuurniv, were besieged for a year, had their well poisoned by a human slave, and were forced to flee back to the Underdark. This allowed humans to conquer the Tower, and the water wizard Ashaba became the first lord of Shadowdale. After Ashaba merged with the river in the, the Twisted Tower was renamed to the Twisted Tower of Ashaba in his honor.

Defenses
The Twisted Tower of Ashaba had a mortar mixed with substances designed to block scrying.