TOWER MINE - the third in the series of six Wildergorn Colour In Posters.

At the source of the River Torr, beneath the Creeg mountains in the north west of Wildergorn, the land
is riven with great fissures of many shapes and sizes.  Some echo with the thunder of plunging water
and the rushing of dark rivers, some are empty and silent.   Some are swept by draughts of freezing
air, while others swelter in clouds of steaming heat.  Some are narrow and shallow and some are
so vast that their black depths forever remain unplumbed.

This land of unnatural chasms, wrought by subterranean upheavals long before the flicker of
life appeared in Wildergorn, is named The Skray, and is now inhabited by the Sarads and the
Tower Miners.  The Tower Miners have constructed tall towers around which a lacework of
aquaducts and barrow-bridges give them access at all levels to the mines, hewn into the rock
faces of the giant canyons.  In these mines the Tower Miners search for and excavate the strange
underground fruit called Pellin or Moonfruit - known and valued throughout Wildergorn for its magically
potent power to heal and cure all manner of wounds and sickness.

The Pellin is distributed far and wide by water, land and air.  The nomad Arns, in their trundling landcraft, trade the Pellin to Sool on the Potters Road, and to Roon and Teel in the East of Wildergorn, while the boatmen of Yennat ply the river Torr, carrying the hard shelled bitter-sweet fruit to Watergorn, Strake and the South.

For the far-flung isolated villages of Watergorn which are hard to reach either by road or river, the Sarads, who live near the Tower Mines on the Skray, work in their windmills to grind and prepare the Pellin into liquid essence, which is then bottled and flown by the dragon-riders of Krag to those remote places.

The Tower Miners, who had once been fierce and warlike cave-dwellers, together with the gentle Sarads of Skray work proudly and peacefully together, fairly rewarded for their supply of Pellin and essence, by gifts of food and wine, cloth and metal, from the grateful people of Wildergorn.