Amir Tower

The Amir Tower is an abandoned tower in the Castle of the Sun, Qairi.
The Tower was built as part of the original plans, and named after Sheikh Peyman's son Amir Mofid. It served as an inner-wall corner tower until the end of the Siege of Qairi in 738-739, and gained its reputation on the last day of the siege.
On the very last day of the siege, the garrison was starving, exhausted, and generally just prepared to surrender. The Amir Tower was garrisoned by two dozen men, mostly levies from Qairi town. When the garrison of the castle surrendered, they were told to hold their positions and the new Kiban occupiers would round them up to be interned.
The Kiban soldiers sent to the Amir Tower were, for whatever reason, furious at the defenders. When they reached the tower, their officer ordered the Sahri soldiers' hands tied. He then began to push the defenders out of the top-level window. The first three Sahris suffered a fifteen-metre fall to land on the battlements of the curtain wall below. When the rest of the defenders protested, they were pushed back by the Kibans and given a choice - either die on Kiban spears, or fling themselves to their natural deaths.
There was one survivor of this massacre, who vanished into the crowd of Sahri prisoners-of-war, and spread the word of this injustice. The Amir Tower Massacre was one of the reasons for Sheikh Sahand's vicious retribution against the Kibans during the Year of the Plainspeople.
Since the Siege of Qairi, the Amir Tower has been abandoned due to soldiers - Kiban and Sahri alike - claiming to see the dead garrison flinging themselves out of the tower.
Category:Fortifications
Category:Sahran
Category:Kiba