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The '''Thousand-Walled Prison''', also known as the '''Sukkal's Nightmare''', is a sprawling subterranean complex in the [[Depths]] beneath the [[Taizzan Expanse]], with its most easily accessible entrance roughly | The '''Thousand-Walled Prison''', also known as the '''Sukkal's Nightmare''', is a sprawling subterranean complex in the [[Depths]] beneath the [[Taizzan Expanse]], with its most easily accessible entrance roughly fifteen miles southwest of [[Deadheart]]. None know who first built the structure. It is ancient, predating both written [[Amshan|Amshani]] and [[Eastern Chaskan city-states|Chaskan]] histories, and in a style not typically associated with any extant cultures. Some believe it was constructed by prehistoric [[dwarf|dwarves]], perhaps even those associated with the [[Kingdom of Gold and Iron]], but this remains a matter of speculation. | ||
The exact size of the Thousand-Walled Prison is not precisely known. It is arranged into four columns of layers deep into the earth, which occasionally connect through a labyrinthine network of tunnels. An Amshani expedition in the middle of the ninety-third century reached at least forty-three layers beneath the surface, the deepest anyone is known to have delved and survived. That the Prison seems to shift its layout infrequently but unpredictably does not aid in attempts to map it. | The exact size of the Thousand-Walled Prison is not precisely known. It is arranged into four columns of layers deep into the earth, which occasionally connect through a labyrinthine network of tunnels. An Amshani expedition in the middle of the ninety-third century reached at least forty-three layers beneath the surface, the deepest anyone is known to have delved and survived. That the Prison seems to shift its layout infrequently but unpredictably does not aid in attempts to map it. | ||
The Thousand-Walled Prison is inhabited by all matter of creatures. All who die within its confines are kept there, body and spirit alike, never permitted to leave until such time as the '''Sukkal''' grants their freedom. The identity of the Sukkal is as mysterious as the rest of the Prison, but they appear to be some kind of immortal, perhaps psychic entity bound to the complex. They speak to those who venture within at times, almost always to cast judgement upon them for transgressions they committed, even when those crimes took place far from the Prison where the Sukkal could not be aware of them. Undead, the remains of those sentenced by the Sukkal, are the primary denizens of the Prison, but various creatures of other types have wandered in from the Depths, the surface, or from [[Planar coterminalities|planar tears]] over the centuries. The oldest known entities in the Prison who can still be communicated with, other than the Sukkal, were placed there by the [[Tyrant|Tyrants]], once the rulers of Amshan. | The Thousand-Walled Prison is inhabited by all matter of creatures. All who die within its confines are kept there, body and spirit alike, never permitted to leave until such time as the '''Sukkal''' grants their freedom. The identity of the Sukkal is as mysterious as the rest of the Prison, but they appear to be some kind of immortal, perhaps psychic entity bound to the complex. They speak to those who venture within at times, almost always to cast judgement upon them for transgressions they committed, even when those crimes took place far from the Prison where the Sukkal could not be aware of them. Undead, the remains of those sentenced by the Sukkal, are the primary denizens of the Prison, but various creatures of other types have wandered in from the Depths, the surface, or from [[Planar coterminalities|planar tears]] over the centuries. The oldest known entities in the Prison who can still be communicated with, other than the Sukkal, were placed there by the [[Tyrant|Tyrants]], once the rulers of Amshan. | ||
Despite its proximity to one of the more traveled routes of the [[Golden Paths]], merchant caravans always give the surface entrances to the Thousand-Walled Prison a wide berth. | |||
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Revision as of 03:25, 8 July 2025
The Thousand-Walled Prison, also known as the Sukkal's Nightmare, is a sprawling subterranean complex in the Depths beneath the Taizzan Expanse, with its most easily accessible entrance roughly fifteen miles southwest of Deadheart. None know who first built the structure. It is ancient, predating both written Amshani and Chaskan histories, and in a style not typically associated with any extant cultures. Some believe it was constructed by prehistoric dwarves, perhaps even those associated with the Kingdom of Gold and Iron, but this remains a matter of speculation.
The exact size of the Thousand-Walled Prison is not precisely known. It is arranged into four columns of layers deep into the earth, which occasionally connect through a labyrinthine network of tunnels. An Amshani expedition in the middle of the ninety-third century reached at least forty-three layers beneath the surface, the deepest anyone is known to have delved and survived. That the Prison seems to shift its layout infrequently but unpredictably does not aid in attempts to map it.
The Thousand-Walled Prison is inhabited by all matter of creatures. All who die within its confines are kept there, body and spirit alike, never permitted to leave until such time as the Sukkal grants their freedom. The identity of the Sukkal is as mysterious as the rest of the Prison, but they appear to be some kind of immortal, perhaps psychic entity bound to the complex. They speak to those who venture within at times, almost always to cast judgement upon them for transgressions they committed, even when those crimes took place far from the Prison where the Sukkal could not be aware of them. Undead, the remains of those sentenced by the Sukkal, are the primary denizens of the Prison, but various creatures of other types have wandered in from the Depths, the surface, or from planar tears over the centuries. The oldest known entities in the Prison who can still be communicated with, other than the Sukkal, were placed there by the Tyrants, once the rulers of Amshan.
Despite its proximity to one of the more traveled routes of the Golden Paths, merchant caravans always give the surface entrances to the Thousand-Walled Prison a wide berth.