Irion's tower was originally constructed by the mage of the same name, two hundred years before the events described in the short story "The Lesser Evil". In that short story, the tower is occupied by a mage claiming to be Irion, but it is soon revealed that the resident of the tower is actually Stregobor.
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The tower, built from smoothly hewn blocks of granite and crowned by tooth-like battlements, was impressive, dominating the broken tiles of homesteads and dipping-roofed thatched cottages.
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"Such as your name. Apparently you're Master Irion now."
"That's the name of the man who created this tower. He died about two hundred years ago, and I thought it right to honour him in some way since I occupied his abode."
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