Scollbow Tower

Scollbow Tower is the home of the Scollbow clan of Collectors as well as the Scollbow Collection, as it has been for over one thousand years. The tower is one of the three towers of Illica belonging to a Collector clan. It was first built by one of three pirate captains, to resemble the older Blind Tower that was built by the long dead Bar-Enoch in his time. Through the generations, the captain's family denounced the act of piracy and became traders and collectors of rare, precious objects instead.

As with the other two towers, Scollbow Tower stands at the second-highest point of Illica, between the townspeople's fields and the high point where the Blind Tower ruins lie. then steep, sheer seacliffs and the ocean. The towers are relatively close to one another.

The current head of the Scollbow clan and of its Collection is Olla-Scollbow, who lives at Scollbow Tower with his wife, Lady Poltice and their twin daughters Poupette and Poupette's twin sister. The tower used to also be the home of their oldest child and son, Collin, however when he was being forced to marry a woman against his will, he ran away with his true love and stowed away on the Star of Deltora, leaving Illica.

Layout
Scollbow Tower is tall and made of stones. It has a flag flying at the top it. The tower stands within a square of pebbles. The door to the tower is big and made of wood, and has a heavy knocker fixed to it.

Beyond the tower's door is an entrance hall that is dim and echoing. At this same level is a huge dining room, with a long table.

Scollbow Tower has several floors, with a curving stone stairway connecting them. The entrance hall and huge dining room takes up the first floor while bedrooms are located higher up. The bedrooms are huge to the point of being like caverns.

The Collection is housed in multiple chambers on at least three floors, high in the tower. The windows at the Collection floors are large and are covered by curtains.

The Collection appears to be endless and every item in it is different, being made up of rare, precious objects from all islands in the Silver Sea and beyond it. These items include golden statues, gem-studded swords, weird glass shapes, antique clocks, stuffed birds and animals, exquisite furniture, ancient books, embroidered rugs, magnificent silver, fabulous jewellery, music boxes, intricate clockwork toys.

The items that Olla-Scollbow is willing to trade are located on the third of the Collection floors, on loaded shelves. These items are rare and valuable, but are more like other items in the Collection. These include a box jewelled water jug with a flying fish-shaped stopper, a shallow velvet-covered box beside it filled with sunrise pearls, and a magical, singing gold bell tree made in the Isle of Dorne.

Star of Deltora

 * The Towers of Illica