Vaults, Crodeux
Beneath Crodeux lies a half-buried world of sealed passageways, bricked-over arches, and forgotten causeways—the remnants of older city-states, Imorean cisterns, and foundation vaults long since abandoned or built over. These underground structures, collectively known as The Vaults, are unstable, unmapped, and largely condemned by city officials—though beggars, smugglers, and worse still use them.
Many believe the Vaults were once part of the Spiral Archives, a sprawling complex of memory-vaults and ritual chambers designed to store and restrain forbidden knowledge. Though the Church of Holy Law officially sealed all Archive entrances, rumors persist of intact doors hidden deep beneath the city. Some say the seals still hum with latent power. Others claim the deeper levels are not entirely empty.
Access points are said to exist beneath certain old buildings in Crodeux—collapsed bathhouses, derelict tenements, forgotten chapels, and even bookshops—but finding one, let alone surviving the descent, is another matter entirely.
Descent is discouraged, and return is not guaranteed.
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