THE LEDGER

The Sunkroot Warrens

A wild root-cave network in the dark beneath the Vale, upstream of Vel-Sathra's tamed terraces along the same Rootwater — no moot governs it, and the Kneeling Drowned keep company with worse things here.

Where Vel-Sathra fits its basalt terraces between the stone roots and calls it a city, the Sunkroot Warrens upstream stay exactly what the underdark is everywhere else: unlit, unmapped, and hostile to anyone who mistakes the Rootwater's tame reach for the whole of it. The Kneeling Drowned tend a flooded shrine here and have started keeping worse company than penitence.

KIND

zone-region

LAYER

underdark

TIER

Tier III

DANGER REASON

Underdark hung under the-vale via a shaft edge — the feral root-cave network upstream of Vel-Sathra's tamed civic reaches, unlit and unclaimed, but shallow enough (ZW-01 zone_graph.json authority) that it reads as the Vale's dangerous cellar rather than the deep underdark proper.

Connected

The Kneeling DrownedFACTION · The Kneeling Drowned tend a flooded shrine in the Su…Vel-SathraPLACE · The Warrens share the same Rootwater as Vel-Sathra, …The ValePLACE · A shaft edge hangs the Warrens under the Vale — the …Vel-SathraPLACE · Vel-Sathra's tamed terraces sit downstream of the wi…

Type Fields

kindzone-region

parent_place—

layerunderdark

tier3

danger_reasonUnderdark hung under the-vale via a shaft edge — the feral root-cave network upstream of Vel-Sathra's tamed civic reaches, unlit and unclaimed, but shallow enough (ZW-01 zone_graph.json authority) that it reads as the Vale's dangerous cellar rather than the deep underdark proper.

hub—

region_sourcesthe_vale

biomesunderdark, root-cavern

controlling_faction—

points_of_interestthe flooded shrine, the upstream root-caverns, the shaft down from the Vale

All Relationships (4)

hidden_in

←The Kneeling Drowned — The Kneeling Drowned tend a flooded shrine in the Sunkroot Warrens, keeping company with the Unclosed dead instead of shutting them away.

references

→Vel-Sathra — The Warrens share the same Rootwater as Vel-Sathra, upstream of the city's tamed civic terraces.
←Vel-Sathra — Vel-Sathra's tamed terraces sit downstream of the wilder Sunkroot Warrens, along the same Rootwater.

bounded_by

←The Vale — A shaft edge hangs the Warrens under the Vale — the same layer transition Vel-Sathra itself uses.

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