Threshold Caves
A dark and foreboding atmosphere is only broken by occasional pulsating firelight or the reflection of lava-like lakes on the walls. Accessible via Threshold Pits, it also has portals leading to the Dorsal Rift and Caudal Rift. Go with a guide until you memorize the multiple dark mazes to reach either the Ceremonial Hall, or to the portals to the Rifts.
Ceremonial Hall, in Threshold Caves
- The boundaries of the hall shift and waver, spreading outwards to a range beyond sight. Silence is so pervasive it throbs in your ears, punctuated at rare intervals with the faint rattling of iron on stone. The altar seems to draw the heat from the room despite the glowing braziers atop it. Acrid smoke climbs in thin spirals from the fires to sting your eyes. Air, thick and cloying, with an unidentifiable scent, leaves a coppery taste in your mouth. Pulsing light from the swirling pools below reflects about the room, bathing it in a crimson glow that causes the murals to seem a dance of macabre and grotesque figures.
Plane History
by Carniworker
The caves have been referred to as the third rift. And yet my studies have not really indicated that is true. The rifts as we have seen lie at the outskirts of the city. The caves are at the very heart of it. The cave I believe is actually the force from which the city first sprung. It is said that the first dreamers learned to form solid matter from the essence of the dream. Yet they must have had a power from which to draw from to do that. When you enter the realm of the caves and proceed down the right corridor or around the central room you see off into the distance a pulsing energy pattern in the distance. I believe this energy is actually the very soul of the city. It is where all of us reside when our time of ending has come. It is the consciousness of the city. This power is very unstable and thus you have the formation of both good and evil. It is here that Osric speaks of the creation of the ultimate product of warped chaos. I believe the altar is in the first room that was created by the first dreamers. It is here that they continued to conceive the rest of the city, as we know it. As time passed these dreamers became very powerful and arrogant. Again Osric speaks of one called Horron. His mind was warped and thus his powers became tools of evil. His children the mares of Underlight. The other dream rights developed the basic arts here as they city above them developed. Soon they had trouble containing their power and knew the dream would come when they had to seal off the caves. They also knew that some dream out in the future they would have to reopen the caves but they had to develop a way to insure the time was right so keys were developed to open the caves. One such key is the Eye of the moon. The Dreamwrights knew that until the dreamers of Underlight understood how to use the keys that the caves would remained sealed. It was their way of insuring that when they were reopened the dreamers would be mature enough to use the powers that it contained.
by Bilbo Baggins
Some of you know of Wesex, mine and Snapcase's father Dreamstrike Master, all around evil person... so you say, we know of him, who cares? well it is because of him that Thresh Caves were formed, how do I know this??? he told me
Long ago when the DreamStrike offensive was in its prime, the Dreamwrights realized that soon, even Threshold would no longer be safe, and so the went down unto the its and there started a labor of creating a new plane, a plane to be used as a fortress against the evil to come. As shown by 2 different mazes, and a vault the whole place was not meant to be penetrated, but it was. After it was built the master Dreamwright gathered all the dreamers they could into these caves. Originally there was no portal from entrance to Ceremonial Chamber, that was done by the DreamStrikers, the Ceremonial Chamber was where the Dreamwright gathered all the dreamers, but when the DreamStrike forces came, many went through the mazes and were lost, but the smart ones created a portal. When the Dreamwrights knew all was lost, they made all who could wake, and they sealed themselves, and the dreamstrikers in the caves hopefully, never to be opened again... but it has been so releasing a great evil upon the dream, one that was bound unto a codex, long long ago. . .
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