History Quotes / EvilTowerOfOminousness

->''"I have to scale this massive structure... The UTU Media Tower. No structure stands taller and has more eyes on the city."''
-->-- '''Gunvolt''', ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''

->''"The locals here call it the Tower of Death. You can imagine why."''
-->--'''Goban''', ''[[VideoGame/YsIAncientYsVanishedOmen Ys Book I]]''

->''Welcome to Orochi Tower, the heart and nerve centre of the [[MegaCorp Orochi Group corporate family]]. Together, we form [[{{Orochi}} eight heads]] facing forward to an innovative horizon. We see limitations as a challenge and the impossible as a dare. We will push boundaries. We will pursue excellence. [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans We will change the world]]. Orochi Group: [[BadassBoast We Will]]. Please enjoy your visit, and have a dynamic day.''
-->--''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->Atop a craggy peak high in the Transylvania Alps broods the sinister castle known as Ceoris. Mightiest eastern fortress of the Tremere, its stark face rises from the very ribs of the grey mountain, sweeping upward into contorted spires. Carved from the rock itself, Ceoris's northward-facing towers cast long shadows over the lands below. Once [[MageTower home]] to a covenant of House Tremere, [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension magi of the Order of Hermes]], Ceoris now houses the archmagi who [[ImmortalityImmorality embraced immortality by transforming themselves into Cainites]]. Where mortals once whispered fearfully of the "[[WizardingSchool devil's school]]," [[TheDreaded few now dare to speak its name at all]].
-->--''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampire: The Dark Ages]] - Transylvania By Night''

->'''Lena Korolev:''' Look! Over there, on the skyline. No matter where we go, it's always there, watching us.
->'''The Doctor:''' The Somnus Tower. It's an astounding piece of architecture, isn't it? [[CrapsaccharineWorld Difficult to believe something so beautiful could conceal such malignance...]]
-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho076Singularity Singularity]]''

->"The architectural style is Early Maniac."
-->-- '''Vila Restal''', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Cygnus Alpha"

-->--''Literature/{{Mogworld}}''

-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Skaven Army Book (4th edition)''

-->--''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Tamurkhan: The Throne Of Chaos]]''

->Somewhere, in the North Atlantic, far from any land, there lies [[LighthousePoint a lighthouse]]. Some claim it's a ghost structure, built of ectoplasmic bricks and that glimmering light at its peak is fueled by the fires of Hell! They call this baleful black beacon the Phantom Lighthouse. Lord help the lost ship that wanders into these waters unaware - for suddenly, compasses spin awry and radios fill with static. Then the Phantom Lighthouse looms suddenly in the mist.
->To set eyes upon it (so it's said) is to [[PortentOfDoom meet most certain death]]. The waters around the black tower are awash [[DerelictGraveyard with the splinters of broken boats]]. The air around it echoes with the shrieks of dying sailors and the keening wails of unholy, misshapen creatures that feed on human flesh.
-->--"Back To The Frozen Triangle," by Carleton Rede, ''VideoGame/Bioshock2: There's Something In The Sea''

->He built his tower higher and higher - a wobbly, twisty unlikely-looking structure uncurling like seaweed toward the shimmering limit of the sky. Dark stones, blackened windows. [[MageTower Impossible without magic]], without his [[ChildMage little magicians]].
->He loved them.
->[[PoweredByAForsakenChild He couldn't bear to think of them]].
->He shoved them out of his mind.
->And look. His tower. A marvel! It was higher than any structure in the history of the world. The Minister knew the history of the world. He had all the history books, after all - [[BookBurning the ones he hadn't burned]], anyway.
-->--''The Unlicensed Magician,'' by Kelly Barnhill

->"The oldest records in Undabed recount that one day a great and terrifying black wave washed over the world and nothing and no one could resist it. This wave carried so much water with it that it covered the lands of Undabed forever and gave birth to the sea we know today. A tower rose up out of this enormous tidal wave. It rose so high that it seemed it would never stop. It nevertheless did stop, but its top was so high that it could not be seen and its base so deep that it was lost among the shadows of the sea. The survivors of the catastrophe stopped and observed the tower for a moment. And they knew that this tower could bring them nothing but misfortune and suffering."

->My best guess at the [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump great man]]’s next move is the hoisting of [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings an enormous burning eye]] above Trump Tower. It’s a building for which the words tacky and gaudy somehow seem too jolly and frivolous. Close up, it looks like the memory stick where some giant alien sex-killer stores his worst atrocities, or a version of [[TheMonolith the black slab]] in Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, sent to restore our consciousness to the level of chimpanzees. Trapped inside, Melania Trump has a look that I’ve never seen before, the eyes of someone waiting with increasing impatience for Stockholm syndrome to set in.
-->--'''Creator/FrankieBoyle''', ''[[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/08/donald-trump-obnoxious-karma-reincarnated-as-himself-frankie-boyle Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself]]''

-->--'''Creator/FrankieBoyle''', [[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/08/donald-trump-obnoxious-karma-reincarnated-as-himself-frankie-boyle Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself]]

-->--'''Goban''', ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} Book I''

->"The oldest records in Undabed recount that one day a great and terrifying black wave washed over the world and nothing and no one could resist it. This wave carried so much water with it that it covered the lands of Undabed forever and gave birth to the sea we know today. A tower rose up out of this enormous tidal wave. It rose so high that it seemed it would never stop. It nevertheless did stop, but its top was so high that it could not be seen and its base so deep that it was lost among the shadows of the sea. The survivors of the catastrophe stopped and observed the tower for moment. And they knew that this tower could bring them nothing but misfortune and suffering."

->And look. His tower. A marvel! It was higher than any structure in the history of the world. He Minister knew the history of the world. He had all the history books, after all - [[BookBurning the ones he hadn't burned]], anyway.

->For more than a thousand years, the dark, burning spire of the Black Fortress has stood sentinel over the crossing place of the River Ruin at the southern edge of the Mountains of Mourn and guarded the border of the [[EvilCounterpartRace Chaos Dwarf]] empire of ash and suffering. It is a nightmarish place of soot, blackened iron and jagged rock, and burning magma runs through it like lifeblood. For centuries, the master of this dark demesne and the warriors and slave that inhabit it has been [[SorcerousOverlord Drazhoath the Ashen]], a twisted, power-hungry creature and potent sorcerer. Drazhoath was first [[ReassignedToAntarctica sent to the Black Forest in effective exile]] after losing favour in the [[DeadlyDecadentCourt brutal politics]] of [[{{Mordor}} Zharr-Naggrund]] as a minor Hellsmith, but has since risen to become its lord through his innate cunning and bitter ruthless ambition...

->And look. His tower. A marvel! It was higher than any structure in the history of the world. [[WrittenByTheWinners He had all the history books]], after all - [[BookBurning the ones he hadn't burned]], anyway.

->Atop a craggy peak high in the Transylvania Alps broods the sinister castle known as Ceoris. Mightiest eastern fortress of the Tremere, its stark face rises from the very ribs of the grey mountain, sweeping upward into contorted spires. Carved from the rock itself, Ceoris's northward-facing towers cast long shadows over the lands below. Once home to a covenant of House Tremere, [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension magi of the Order of Hermes]], Ceoris now houses the archmagi who [[ImmortalityImmorality embraced immortality by transforming themselves into Cainites]]. Where mortals once whispered fearfully of the "[[WizardingSchool devil's school]]," [[TheDreaded few now dare to speak its name at all]].

->Atop a craggy peak high in the Transylvania Alps broods the sinister castle known as Ceoris. Mightiest eastern fortress of the Tremere, its stark rises from the very ribs of the grey mountain, sweeping upward into contorted spires. Carved from the rock itself, Ceoris's northward-facing towers cast long shadows over the lands below. Once home to a covenant of House Tremere, [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension magi of the Order of Hermes]], Ceoris now houses the archmagi who [[ImmortalityImmorality embraced immortality by transforming themselves into Cainites]]. Where mortals once whispered fearfully of the "[[WizardingSchool devil's school]]," [[TheDreaded few now dare to speak its name at all]].

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