After spending half a day at Sentinel Hill, Shawn went to inspect his Mage Tower again, only to realize that his original decision to build a twenty-four-story tower had been far too hasty and fanciful.
Azeroth was a chaotic world where magic and technology coexisted, so building a twenty-four-story Mage Tower was certainly possible. But with Shawn's current strength and resources, building a true twenty-four-story Mage Tower would be far too difficult.
The blame lay with Shawn's complete ignorance of Mage Towers back then.
During his time studying under Aegwynn, he had asked her about Mage Towers. She was the foremost expert on the subject, for she had built Karazhan, the grandest and most mysterious Mage Tower of all.
Yes, Karazhan had been built by Aegwynn, not Medivh. She had once secluded herself there for several hundred years, cut off from the world.
Aegwynn told Shawn that a true Mage Tower was best built on a ley line nexus on the planet Azeroth, allowing it to draw upon vast amounts of ley line energy. On that count alone, Shawn had chosen the wrong site.
Second, building a Mage Tower involved far more than simply erecting a tower. A true Mage Tower needed magic circles inscribed throughout, inside and out. Its walls, doors, windows, floors, ceilings, and even every component required meticulous magical treatment, enchanting, and inscription. Several mages were needed to oversee it all. Only then could a Mage Tower truly serve its purpose.
With enough mages to operate it, a fully equipped Mage Tower would be difficult to breach even if several times their number attacked it.
The Tower of Azora, for instance, housed many low-rank and mid-rank mages besides Theocritus. Together, these mages formed a group capable of operating a Mage Tower.
Towers like Karazhan, which Aegwynn or