Introduction
Approaching the entrance to the mine you notice the signs of industry and hard labor, broken tools and mine carts are strewn about a salvage yard awaiting repair, a few scattered crews of tough looking dirty people of all races are on break from their shifts, and a scant group of vendors pushes carts and shouts their wares of food and drink to the weary workers. Sitting not too far from the entrance is a tall statue of Aelia Saxur.
The entrance itself looks like nothing more than a crack in the mountain with the bottom widened to allow the passage of mine carts and other equipment. Even just through the entrance the cave does not widen and continues on for a few hundred paces as a dark, perhaps 15ft wide cavern.
Upon passing beyond the entrance however, you see a vast cavernous chamber, looking to have the shapes of vaulted ceilings carved into it in an old dwarvish fashion. Workers mill about, heads down and set to their tasks, pushing carts, carrying tools, going over maps and schematics of new expansions, and oddly enough you hear a few workers praying to varying gods. This vast space is referred to as “The Cathedral”.
“First day on the job? Now’s the time to say your peace boy, may not be a real church, but you never know if you’ll pass through a cathedral again, and the mine can be a nasty bitch.”