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The Weeping Vault — in-engine capture (dungeon architecture kit)

GAZETTEER · THE EASTERN CRAGS

The Weeping Vault

A sealed Imperial-Temple vault in the Eastern Crags, beaded always with warm metal-tasting water — the seal keeps something in.

A single iron door stands in living stone, beaded with water that runs warm and tastes of metal. The Imperium sealed something here and left no key. The Temple has tried prayer, the Silt Hands powder, and the crag has kept both out. Whatever weeps behind the door has been weeping a very long time.

KIND

dungeon

PARENT PLACE

The Eastern Crags

MAP X

1720

MAP Z

-460

Connected

Type Fields
kinddungeon
parent_placeplace.the-eastern-crags
map_x1720
map_z-460
climatewarm, damp, close stone
danger_tier4
controlling_factionfaction.ashen-temple
points_of_interestthe weeping door, the warm runnels, the listening cracks
All Relationships (19)

guards

  • The Ashen TempleThe Vault's seal is Temple work, meant to keep something in.
  • Vault-WeeperThe vault-weeper haunts the Weeping Vault, mourning and guarding what was sealed inside it.
  • The Weeping StonesThe Weeping Stones mark the outer perimeter of the Vault's seal — the Bonesung read them as the door's listening-ears.
  • Reza the TollwrightReza's camp guards the road access to the Weeping Vault — per three separate contracts, simultaneously.
  • Warden-binder SetheWarden-binder Sethe sends wardens east to count the Vault's failing runnels — the Vault's long-distance guardian.

references

  • The SunderingWhat weeps behind the door has wept since the Imperium fell.
  • quest.the-failing-seal (unresolved)The quest sends the player down into the Weeping Vault.
  • Warden-binder SetheThe 'Warden of the Vault' has counted the runnels widening for years; she gives the player the descent.
  • The Unhushed TowerBoth are sealed-death sites on the crag barrow road, kept apart for opposite reasons — one to hold the dead down, one to bring them up.
  • The Drinking SinkThe Drinking Sink's warm brine passage connects underground to the Weeping Vault's failing seal — the Vault's runnels drain into the cistern.
  • quest.the-toll-that-bought-itself (unresolved)The quest's stakes are who controls road access to the Weeping Vault as the seal fails.
  • The Sealing-Order FragmentThe Fragment describes the binding-tone used to seal the Weeping Vault — it is about the Vault.

rival_of

  • The Silt HandsThe Hands tried powder on the seal and the crag kept them out.

located_in

  • Vault-WeeperIt is sealed behind the Vault's weeping door.
  • The Eastern CragsThe Weeping Vault is sealed into the living stone of the Eastern Crags.

hidden_in

  • The Verdigris VigilIt stands on the dead warden's shape on the inner dais, where the brine cannot eat it.
  • Vault-WeeperThe Vault-Weeper has been sealed in the Weeping Vault since the Imperium locked it behind the warden's vigil.

occurred_at

  • The Warden StayedThe warden's note was written before she went into the Weeping Vault and sealed herself inside.

caused

  • The SunderingThe Weeping Vault was sealed in the aftermath of the Sundering — the Imperium and Temple acted together because something from the Sundering's tear needed containing.

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