An old guard tower on a hill.

Supposedly “haunted” by “ghosts”, according to some goblin.

The top of the hill is mostly flat, perhaps 300 feet across; low earthworks ring the hilltop. A path ascends to the hilltop up the hill’s south side.

The ground of the hilltop is strewn with a great multitude of bones. These poke out of the ground, or lie half-buried in the sand and dirt. The bones are scattered, and many are broken. Most of the bones look like they could be from humanoids, although there’s definitely a few which are clearly from somewhat bigger creatures.

There are some mostly-destroyed ruins of what were a small handful of auxiliary buildings. The tower itself is wholly intact, however. It is a very sturdy three-story stone structure, a bit over 40 feet square; the rooftop boasts crenelated battlements. The ground floor has a front door on the south, facing the center of the hilltop, and a back door on the north. The second and third floors have windows facing in the cardinal directions; the north and south windows are narrow and iron-barred (little more than arrow slits), while the east and west windows are large… but quite thoroughly boarded up from the inside.

The first floor of the tower is mostly open space; furniture, shelving, etc. stood here once, but what remains of these now lies moldering in piles of scrap in the corners. The second floor is a barracks—an open space with a number of cots, plus a half-dozen tiny, cell-like rooms. The third floor features a simple bed and a sturdy wooden writing desk a pile of smashed planks and scrap wood, which might have been a desk at some point. Staircases connect the floors.

On the east side of the tower is another door, which opens into a narrow corridor that runs along the eastern edge of the tower’s first floor. This ends in a set of stairs going down; an archway in the stair landing bears a magically glowing sun symbol—the mark of Pelor.

At the bottom, the stairs open into a crypt, wherein stands a single stone sarcophagus. A plaque at the foot of the sarcophagus reads:

Sir Berengar
the last paladin of the west
died 231 r.c.

In a side wall of the crypt is a doorway or tunnel opening; however, it is thoroughly bricked up.