Pyromania

“	Tox: Looking good! I've been wondering what you were doing under all that glass. Gotta be a little easier without cal & co. stopping by every day or so.<BR>Pyroviking: Thanks! Actually, without realizing it, they helped me with a lot of the excavation, thinking that they were griefing. They only actually killed me twice, and never got my head.	”
 	—Pyroviking discusses Pyromania 	—Pyroviking discusses Pyromania
Pyromania was the residence of Pyroviking during Dragonhollow's Third Era.
Unlike many of his fellow residents in the Northlands who spread to low-laying savannahs, craggy mountain peaks, and coastal plains in their search for raw materials, Pyro embraced his harsh surroundings and settled in the sprawling southern desert. He converted its never-ending sands into glass and sandstone and began construction of Pyromania.
It became an oasis in the arid wastes. Built around an iron farm core, two concave sandstone platforms funneled golems into a collection shaft. The lower level, featuring livestock and planted crops, was sunken below ground level but exposed to open air, partially visible through the exterior moat through a glass retaining wall. At night, the shimmering glow was visible through the water for hundreds of meters in every direction.The basement cellars were filled with redstone machinery, workshops, and a storage area built upon a natural underground ravine.
It took several months to build and construction was temporarily halted many times by reaver attacks from the dreaded Dragonslayers, whose own headquarters at Dragonstone was his nearest neighbor. However, he found that their explosive siege weapons actually made the project easier because the blast craters excavated the surrounding area for him and he was able to collect the stone and sand rubble for use as raw materials.
Nevertheless, Pyro's tempo greatly increased when the Dragonslayers were first executed by Eris on 3E:51 and their attacks ceased. By the time Tox reached Pyromania on 3E:68 as part of his Northlands Mapping Project, the residence had nearly been completed.The name proved prophetic on 3E:172 when it caught fire and burned rapidly due to the overabundance of wood and vegetation inside. Some were quick to blame the Dragonslayers and their sympathizers, but they had been executed months prior. Because the property's claim deed had expired and the magical protections offered by the golden shovel had faded, it's possible a lightning strike or lava spread had caused the fire. Ozven noted that the storage room inside survived the blaze due to being made from solid stone, yet all of the treasures and supplies within were gone, meaning the fire was likely set by scavengers covering their tracks. 
Regardless of the true culprit, the fire raged for weeks afterward in the absence of Pyro. When Project 11 reached the subterranean mines deep beneath Pyromania on 3E:181, Tox and Oz found little more than cinders and ash as the inferno had burned the structure down to the sandstone walls and foundations.
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File:2018-02-28_20.44.54.png|Inside
File:2018-02-28_20.48.00.png|Inside
File:2018-02-20_21.24.51.png|Storage Room
File:2018-02-28_20.45.13.png|Mob grinder
File:2018-02-28_20.49.41.png|At night
File:2018-02-20 21.19.46.png|In the middle of nowhere
File:2018-02-28_20.32.29.png|From above
Category:Places
Category:Northlands Locations