# Tower
A tower is a type of vertical column, often a building structured in such a manner. In NetHack, a tower can refer to many things:

The "tower of flame" produced by a fire trap, magic trap, chest trap, or a read scroll of fire.
One of several physical locations:
Vlad's Tower – 3 levels high, accessed via an upstair in Gehennom, with Vlad the Impaler carrying the Candelabrum of Invocation.
Fake Wizard's Tower – One of two small one-level towers surrounded by moats; one contains a random amulet, while the other contains the portal to the real Wizard's Tower.
Wizard's Tower – A 3-level tower accessed from lowest level to highest in Gehennom; this tower contains the Wizard of Yendor and the Book of the Dead.
The Wizard Quest:
The Lonely Tower – the home level of the quest
The Tower of Darkness – the locate level of the quest
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the Yeoman quest contains a tower based on the real-life Tower of London, and The Tower of the Dark Lord acts as the home level of the Necromancer quest.
In the SLethe patch, additional towers are added to the Castle.

Encyclopaedia entry

Towers (_brooding_, _dark_) stand alone in Waste Areas and
almost always belong to Wizards.  All are several stories high,
round, doorless, virtually windowless, and composed of smooth
blocks of masonry that make them very hard to climb. [...]
You will have to go to a Tower and then break into it at some
point towards the end of your Tour.

[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ] 

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