The cave system under the city

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The cave system

Do no go there under any circumstances!

Description

What
A big cave system located under the city. It mainly hosts our river and numerous lakes, but also our sewer system, a few mineral deposits, and the deep magical currents that make our city a hotspot.

Where
It can be accessed through the basements of the towers. In the Fief of Glass, this is only accessible under Her Ladyship's tower. Contact Her Ladyship's representatives if you find access holes anywhere else!

How
Created by: 1) the water strength of the underground river, 2) the emperors' excavation to acces and study the magical hotspot, and 3) the violent magic floods caused by their interference with the hotspot.

Dangers

Labyrinthe
It is very easy to get lost and to never find the way out, condemned to wander until dying of hunger.

Floods
There is a high risk of getting trapped underground during a sudden water or magic flood and of drowning.

Sentient creature
With the terribly high magic concentration down there, dangerous sentient creatures regularly manifests.

Draconic Construct
The one that murdered the last emperor is still roaming free down there, angry and hungry.

Do not trust anyone trying to convince you to go underground!

Regularly, people find entrances to the underground and slip in, full of dreams of discovering relics of the Elantian empire. This is too often the last anyone hears of them—Never mind the fact that almost all relics have long been brought to the surface and very little is left to be found.

A new threat has recently emerged, with criminal groups and spies moving into the underground despite the danger to themselves, so as to travel under the wards of the fiefs to reach enemy territory. They are just as likely to kill anyone crossing their path as the basement creatures are.

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The City of the Hundred Fiefs

Territories The City of the Hundred Fiefs · Geography (The world's strongest magic hotspot, The cave system under the city) · Fiefs (The Fief of Glass, The Diviner Fief) · Neutral areas (The Council's Palace) Politics Government system (Lords and Ladies of the Fiefs, The Council) · Conflict (The ongoing Elantian civil war, Lord Adélème's fanclub, The Resistance against the New Empire, Water sickness, Previous inhabitants of the Fief of Perfumes) · Lords & ladies (Lord Adélème of Spinner, Lady Olénie) Magic Dangers (Seasonal magic flood, Magical corrosion, Are the magic currents under the city expanding?, Basement kraken) · Technologies (Tower wards, Ward pins, Tasty Treat) · Magic system (Runes, Glass and Magic Lenses) Culture History (The Return of the Empire, Dragonic magic manifestations, The Last Emperor's Experimental Notes, The Ruins of the Ancient city of Elante, Anti-imperial sigil) · Travellers (Trading caravans, Travelling healers, Divination Sessions) · Others (Lord Adélème's Tower, Tower cats, The Worship of the Imperial Family, Election of a Tower Leader, Spying Devices)