GAZETTEER · THE EASTERN CRAGS
The Drinking Sink
A collapsed mesa cistern the wash flash-floods fill — the one standing water in a country that lies about water. A sunken Imperial way-shrine waits at the bottom, and the Silt Hands believe the Vault's warm runnels drain into here.
The mesa-top gave way decades ago and the cistern that the Imperium cut to water its legions is now a still flooded gallery you swim through under a low roof. The water is cold except near the back wall, where it runs warm and tastes of metal. The Silt Hands have sent three divers. Two came back and reported the way-shrine intact under eight feet of water, and the iron door-frame of a passage that was not cut when the Imperium built this place. The third diver did not come back but the Hands believe what came back with the other two: the Vault's seal is draining here.
KIND
drowned
PARENT PLACE
The Eastern Crags
CLIMATE
cold still water, warm at the far wall
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (7)
located_in
- →The Eastern Crags — The Drinking Sink cistern-ruin lies within the Eastern Crags, east of the Tollwright's Camp.
references
- →The Weeping Vault — The Drinking Sink's warm brine passage connects underground to the Weeping Vault's failing seal — the Vault's runnels drain into the cistern.
- ←The Drovers' Spring — Maret the Water-Reader believes the Drovers' Spring and the Drinking Sink share the same underground water as the Vault's runnels.
- ←Maret the Water-Reader — Maret knows the Drinking Sink exists and wants someone to go down into it and confirm the water connection she already suspects.
- →The Sealed Choir — The Sealed Choir, if told about the Drinking Sink's connection to the Vault, would treat the passage as a critical seal vulnerability to be closed.
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-spring-and-the-door (unresolved) — The quest's investigation happens in the Drinking Sink, where the underground water connection is confirmed.
owns
- ←The Silt Hands — The Silt Hands have sent divers into the Drinking Sink and believe the underground connection to the Vault is exploitable.
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