The first floor for the magical Tower of Erlathan, something that I'm just making up as I go I suppose.
You see ahead of you a cliff face, perhaps fifty feet high at it's tallest points, jagged and filled with hardy plant life burrowing their roots into the rocky ledges. At the top of the cliff face the forest seems to continue on; thick grass, shrubbery, and trees that you would imagine go on for miles.
Your attention turns to the apparent destination of the small river you've been following - a waterfall. You notice something is off about this waterfall though. It's flowing from within the rocks near the top of the cliff face, falling down into the river - yet the river you're on flows towards it rather than away. Upon closer inspection you can see faint light through the heavy curtain of falling water and mist. Casting a simple spell to block against the waterfall, you proceed through it - following the flow of the river.
What greets you is a wondrous sight. The flow of water gently comes to a stop at the base of a set of elaborate stairs, leading up into a massive circular room with smooth marble walls that rise up to a vaulted ceiling perhaps ninety feet high - something that doesn't quite make sense considering the height of the cliff face you just enter. In the center of the room is a large golden statue depicting an elf holding a staff in his right hand, with the other hand at his side near a book slung over his shoulder. The statue stands nearly sixty feet tall.
You see four marble braziers with gold trimmed bases in the corners of the room, their light seemingly enhance by magic to give them a golden glow that reaches the ceiling yet still isn't bright enough to be painful to look at. Just in front of you is a carpeted path leading toward and around the statue. To your left is a marble statue with a green chaise lounge chair in front of it. To your right is an identical fountain with an elven harp in front of it. You suddenly realize that there is enchanting music in the air, and that the harp seems to be playing itself.
On the opposite side of the statue is a stairway that leads up toward an elven style arch. Through the archway you can see what appears to be the next room. As you approach the archway you realize that it isn't up against the walls of this room, with a four or five foot gap between the two, yet you can see another room through it clearly as if it was but a step away. Should you look at the stairs or archway while standing on floor below from the side, you would notice the stairs abruptly stop a few feet before the wall.
But before you take more than two steps into the room, the statues eyes "open" and it begins to speak...
