Talk:Kingsparrow Island/@comment-185.64.240.246-20140827055947/@comment-16533050-20200513213347

Indeed, you are correct.

I think my main issue is I'm questioning the logistics of exactly how such a thing could be ordered, designed, and then construction be done on something of that scale in only a six-month period.

The Eiffel Tower took two years, two months and five days to complete. As I don't know the exact height of the Lighthouse, the comparison may be off... but the Burrows Lighthouse is on an island, with no direct way of getting resources, while the Eiffel Tower was in the middle of a huge city.

The Burrows Lighthouse seemed to be an emergency construction on the part of Hiram Burrows built after Jessamine's death. The city of Dunwall was already embargoed, slowly going broke, experiencing a whale oil shortage, and had a plague to deal with.

Assuming NOTHING was planned ahead of time, blueprints alone would have taken a while to draw up. Testing for the area (to see if it could even hold such a structure) had to be done as well as adjustments made for such an edifice to withstand the weather. Finally, the Lighthouse had to be built around an already existing fortress.

That alone would have taken some time. Then materials gathered and pieces premade, ships commissioned to haul all of the materials (again during the troubling times of the plague, embargo, and whale oil shortage), most likely temporary onsite construction areas had to be planned, manned, and assembled... and FINALLY building the towering thing could commence.

All of this... In. Six. Months.