GAZETTEER · THE EMBERWASTE
The Cindervault
A Vallen Imperium bronze-vaulted hall sunk into the Emberthrone's north-west flank, its processional axis aimed at the caldera — sealed from the outside because what still glows in its apse was too dangerous to use.
Black basalt walls scorched orange by a thousand years of the mountain's breath, workings still live and pulsing with something that feels older than the Sundering fault running wide through the apse. The Imperium built it here to read the mountain. Then they read it and sealed the door.
KIND
vault
PARENT PLACE
The Emberthrone
CLIMATE
blast-hot near the fault; ash drifting through the cracked apse
DANGER TIER
Tier IV
Connected
The EmberthronePLACE · The Cindervault is sunk into the Emberthrone's north…Seeker VethCHARACTER · Veth has been mapping the vault approach; his obsess…Threnn the FiredCHARACTER · Threnn has seen the vault's outer chamber and knows …The Molten HermitCHARACTER · The Hermit's riddles are a map to the Cindervault's …Ember WraithCREATURE · Ember-wraiths guard the Cindervault, drawn by the wa…The Deep EmberITEM · The Deep Ember waits in the Cindervault's apse, seal…
Type Fields
kindvault
parent_placeplace.the-emberthrone
climateblast-hot near the fault; ash drifting through the cracked apse
danger_tier4
controlling_faction—
points_of_interestthe processional axis, the Sundering fault rift in the apse, the sealed inner door, the live workings
map_x1430
map_z990
procgen_seed1455
All Relationships (13)
located_in
- →The Emberthrone — The Cindervault is sunk into the Emberthrone's north-west flank, its processional axis aimed at the caldera.
hidden_in
- ←Seeker Veth — Veth has been mapping the vault approach; his obsession is getting inside.
- ←Threnn the Fired — Threnn has seen the vault's outer chamber and knows what is there; the knowledge is part of why he stayed.
- ←The Molten Hermit — The Hermit's riddles are a map to the Cindervault's inner door — encoded from thirty years of listening to the mountain.
- ←The Deep Ember — The Deep Ember waits in the Cindervault's apse, sealed inside since the Imperium closed the door.
guards
- ←Ember Wraith — Ember-wraiths guard the Cindervault, drawn by the warmth and light still coming off whatever glows, sealed, in the apse.
references
- ←The Caldera Key — The Caldera Key was smithed specifically to open the Cindervault's outer gate.
- ←The Caldera Question — The Caldera Question is what the Cindervault was built to study and then sealed to contain.
- ←The Warden's Journal — The journal records smoke from the vault mouth and the fact that nobody goes there.
- →Caer Vallen — The Cindervault is the Emberwaste's counterpart to Caer Vallen — both are Imperium bronze-vaulted halls sealed by the Sundering's fault.
- ←Seld's Letter — The letter instructs the bearer to retrieve a specific object from the Cindervault's apse.
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-unopened-vault (unresolved) — The Unopened Vault resolves in the Cindervault's apse.
foreshadows
- ←The Hermit's First Riddle — The riddle is a direction to the Cindervault's inner door, encoded as cosmological metaphor.
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