GAZETTEER · THE RAMPART FOOTHILLS
The Coldhum Deep
aka the Coldhum, the frozen throat
A meltwater cavern the Stoneborn Coldhand Pans opened into a buried Imperium colonnade — half natural ice-throat, half drowned bronze-vaulted hall, fungus-lit, with one working still pulsing warm underwater.
Brokka's last pan-crew went in with lamps and picks and only the lamp came back out. The cave smells of cold iron and something lower, a warmth that has no business being there, that the diggers call the heat-below. Glowcap fungi ring the waterline; the Imperium arcade the pans broke through is flooded to the chest and the pulsing working beneath the surface has never been explained.
KIND
cave
PARENT PLACE
Greywater Hollow
CLIMATE
freezing meltwater, glowcap-lit
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
owns
- ←Brokka Coldhand — Brokka considers the Coldhum Deep her crew's find — the Coldhand Pans broke the cave, and what happened inside is their business until someone proves otherwise.
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-coldhand-crew (unresolved) — The Coldhand Crew quest centres on the Coldhum Deep — what happened inside and what is still inside.
member_of
- →The Far College — The Far College claims the Coldhum Deep as part of its sanctioned dig — the still-pulsing working in the flooded colonnade is exactly what they are here to study.
references
- →Caer Vallen — The Coldhum Deep is a buried length of Imperium colonnade connected to the same complex as Caer Vallen above — the cave opened into the seat's plumbing.
parent_of
- ←Greywater Hollow — The Coldhum Deep's entrance is in the ridge above Greywater Hollow — the settlement is the base camp for anything going into the cave.
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