Sluice Weave

The Sluice Weave is one of the protections of the harbors and has for many generations existed beneath the waters in Nicodranas. There are marid and water elementals that help maintain the Sluice ducts and occasionally help protect the bay if it is ever under attack.

Geography

Ocean entrance The entrance is forty feet below sea level and leads to a tunnel that protrudes fifteen feet out of the earth before it disappears beneath the docks and the city. The entrance tunnel is made from a stone piece that is different from the rest of the natural, slightly eroded rock. There is a five-foot-wide circle opening that is guarded by a metal grate with ten horizontal, inch-thick, six-inches-apart bars, that are locked. The tunnel is 60 feet long before it curves upward where the water breaks after 30 feet where another grate blocks the way into another tunnel. The tunnel goes on for 60 feet before the tunnel opens into a square chamber.
City entrance This entrance is located in a small office, with a desk, a stool, odd stacks of paper, and partially melted candles. In the back is a trap door leading into the Sluice.[

History

The Sluice Weave is a series of tunnels that guide the water from the ocean to a series of small engines in the city that help propel the furnaces used by the various businesses and locations that require that sort of intense power. There are at least three entrances to the Sluice, one hidden in the city and two or three in the ocean. These tunnels function as intake tubes to bring ocean water into the Sluice ducts.
The tunnels are mostly made of stone and masonry that is slick from moisture. There is moisture that gathers across the stone, and there are streaks of color and minerals that have gathered on the walls over time. There are markers and the levels of the times the water levels were different.

Type

Underground / Subterranean

Location under

Nicodranas

Owner/Ruler

Zhafe Uludan