Crystalfern Caverns

Located deep beneath the Bladeshimmer Shoreline lies a vast network of natural, underground caverns and rivers that predate the Age of Arcanum. This seemingly endless and unfathomably deep series of caves reaches even below the ocean offshore, and has roots in early colonization by denizens of the Far Realm. An ancient society of powerful aboleth and other aberrations sprung up from a door between worlds and conquered this subterranean web, drove their slaves to construct their imperial capital of Salar, the Unseeable City, and began slowly pressing their influence toward the surface. Their plot was quickly and unintentionally ended when the final battle of the Calamity sent powerful waves of magical force throughout Exandria, causing much of the underground caverns to collapse and the aboleth civilization to fall under rock and rubble. Remnants of that time still remain, however, with surviving terrors slowly rebuilding from the dust within the ruins of their once great capital.
The Crystalfen Caverns are home to scattered veins of azuremite, a gorgeous blue crystal that formed from millennia of psychic energies near element deposits. Curious explorers who discovered the veins found that, when mined and refined into a fine dust, the powder has a strong mind-altering agent and induces temporary visions or minor psychic phenomenon. This substance is a powerful hallucinogenic drug called suude, and is peddled secretly across Tal'Dorei. While a number of small, isolated entrances to this labyrinth of tunnels have been discovered and several adventuring parties have attempted to chart the mines, the caverns are so vast and deep that either the parties gave up for fear of becoming lost, or they were assailed by the terrible denizens of the caverns, never to return. As such, most who now brave the caverns are foolish treasure hunters or criminals seeking to mine more azuremite for the suude trade.

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