Lacework Cavern
The Lacework Cavern is an immense cavern within the mountains surrounding Nighthold, and is the Elementine Guild Hall of Architects. The Architectural Guild believes that structural beauty should be appreciated by any and all, and allow anyone to come and view the cavern. The guild meets in a central auditorium structure, where the lattice of limestone tubes that crate the beautify cavern structures are inlaid with Prismem to amplify the starlight high above. A small opening at the mountain peak lets in the starlight that is amplified and directed into the cavern, as its brilliant light source.
These elemental beasts' quick movement and large bodies made for large, porous, limestone tubules. Once the hive was creating the tubes in the style he desire, Vendris worked on guiding them through filling the cavern with their networks. For the most part, the beasts were left to build as they desired and form any pattern. The exception was the very center of the cavern.
While the builders worked with the limestone, Vendris worked to blend quartz into the natural stone of the cavern. He used this method to create a large amphitheater in the floor at the center. From there, he guided the Chitterning Builders in the area of the amphitheater work around the space, and leave a spiraling column of open space above it.
Once the limestone structures were complete, Vandris spent years slowly working crafted prismem into the porous structure of the tubes throughout the cavern, starting with the central space. Once the prismem had been worked into the limestone, the Chittering Builders were no longer interested in the stone and left or faded away. The final result of the cavern was Vandris' magnum opus; a giant cavern full of lacework limestone tubes glowing from within, surrounding a gleaming amphitheater basked in endless moonlight.
Construction
Vendris Val'mere, the architect of the Lacework Cavern was a specialist in augmented natural forms. To create the cavern he had an entire quarry of limestone excavated and brought into the then empty cavern. After a few weeks, the limestone had begun to show signs of a hive of Chittering Builders. Vendris bred these first builders, and worked through generations of selective breeding to get large fast Chittering Limestone Builders.These elemental beasts' quick movement and large bodies made for large, porous, limestone tubules. Once the hive was creating the tubes in the style he desire, Vendris worked on guiding them through filling the cavern with their networks. For the most part, the beasts were left to build as they desired and form any pattern. The exception was the very center of the cavern.
While the builders worked with the limestone, Vendris worked to blend quartz into the natural stone of the cavern. He used this method to create a large amphitheater in the floor at the center. From there, he guided the Chitterning Builders in the area of the amphitheater work around the space, and leave a spiraling column of open space above it.
Once the limestone structures were complete, Vandris spent years slowly working crafted prismem into the porous structure of the tubes throughout the cavern, starting with the central space. Once the prismem had been worked into the limestone, the Chittering Builders were no longer interested in the stone and left or faded away. The final result of the cavern was Vandris' magnum opus; a giant cavern full of lacework limestone tubes glowing from within, surrounding a gleaming amphitheater basked in endless moonlight.
Type
Guildhall
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