Post by Insano-Man on Jan 9, 2019 22:07:38 GMT -5
This topic is a child of the Zorah's Eye article directory.
DEPTHS OF SPACE
Most people don't think about the place below the Eye. Not the pocket universe past the gate, but the underground past the Eye. The bulk of it is just mirror sand twisting, heaving, and annihilating itself against the Gaze's wall. A handful of hulks are smashed together as reminders of what happens to divers who take the exit portal from the wrong end. What only a tiny group of scientists and spelunkers know about is that, straight down below the Eye, is a dead drop a few hundred kilometers down. The obscurity of the giant shaft is so much that it doesn't have an official name with anyone but a few stuffy researchers. Zorah's Nerve sits at the top with a slim plurality. Most others are just random numbers and words smashed together.
Zorah's Nerve is the definition of simple. It's just like the Eye above. It's a hole. It's a big hole. It's a really big hole. It's a shaft around 10km in diameter and hundreds more in depth. It goes down at least to the Great Filter, down where life finds a way in the deep depths. Some of the folks down there think it might even go deeper, to the Underworld or beyond. Somehow, despite geological activity above demanding otherwise, despite geodisplacement events doing their best, Zorah's Nerve has never been broken. Since its discovery, it's held its shape as a big conduit to the world below, sloped in slippery sands sloughing off into the underground.
No one can explain why or how the Nerve exists. No one can explain what it does, either - if it does anything. Some research teams have theorized that it's a pipeline for a unique form of anomalous energy to rise up from the Chambers of Myth. Others have suggested that it's a consequence of the Eye's portal, that it naturally displaces terrain below through some undiscovered mechanism or radiation. No one has any evidence. No one has any findings. As far as the facts are concerned, it's just a hole - one that's just stuck around longer than usual.
Nothing lives inside the Nerve - so far as anyone knows - and nothing much comes in or out of it. Attempts have been made to use it as a passage to the deep underground, or even as an expressway between the surface and the Great Filter. None of them have been successful. The big trouble is the Eye itself. Things coming up have to worry about hitting the portal and ending up in space. Things going down have to worry about colliding with the Gaze's wall at the edge of the Eye and being sent on a bifurcated tumble down the shaft. The constant action of the Iris and the mysterious generation of its sands make it close to impossible to slip by safely.
DEPTHS OF SPACE
Most people don't think about the place below the Eye. Not the pocket universe past the gate, but the underground past the Eye. The bulk of it is just mirror sand twisting, heaving, and annihilating itself against the Gaze's wall. A handful of hulks are smashed together as reminders of what happens to divers who take the exit portal from the wrong end. What only a tiny group of scientists and spelunkers know about is that, straight down below the Eye, is a dead drop a few hundred kilometers down. The obscurity of the giant shaft is so much that it doesn't have an official name with anyone but a few stuffy researchers. Zorah's Nerve sits at the top with a slim plurality. Most others are just random numbers and words smashed together.
Zorah's Nerve is the definition of simple. It's just like the Eye above. It's a hole. It's a big hole. It's a really big hole. It's a shaft around 10km in diameter and hundreds more in depth. It goes down at least to the Great Filter, down where life finds a way in the deep depths. Some of the folks down there think it might even go deeper, to the Underworld or beyond. Somehow, despite geological activity above demanding otherwise, despite geodisplacement events doing their best, Zorah's Nerve has never been broken. Since its discovery, it's held its shape as a big conduit to the world below, sloped in slippery sands sloughing off into the underground.
No one can explain why or how the Nerve exists. No one can explain what it does, either - if it does anything. Some research teams have theorized that it's a pipeline for a unique form of anomalous energy to rise up from the Chambers of Myth. Others have suggested that it's a consequence of the Eye's portal, that it naturally displaces terrain below through some undiscovered mechanism or radiation. No one has any evidence. No one has any findings. As far as the facts are concerned, it's just a hole - one that's just stuck around longer than usual.
Nothing lives inside the Nerve - so far as anyone knows - and nothing much comes in or out of it. Attempts have been made to use it as a passage to the deep underground, or even as an expressway between the surface and the Great Filter. None of them have been successful. The big trouble is the Eye itself. Things coming up have to worry about hitting the portal and ending up in space. Things going down have to worry about colliding with the Gaze's wall at the edge of the Eye and being sent on a bifurcated tumble down the shaft. The constant action of the Iris and the mysterious generation of its sands make it close to impossible to slip by safely.
