The Descent

Location from Azarinth Healer by Rhaegar

Twenty-five levels of escalating insanity beneath Hallowfort — from crystal caverns to floating islands to a desert with a level-1483 sand elemental, each floor a fresh argument against going deeper.

Also known as: Testing Facility Zeta, The Dungeon

What They Know

• The twenty-five distinct levels, their ecosystems, and the creatures that inhabit each — a floor-by-floor danger assessment
• The corruption plague — orange pus from Level 20 that resists all healing, drives creatures mad, and can only be mitigated by Blood Manipulation resistance
• Taleen-era origins — Projects Animus, Fluctuation, and Eden suggest the dungeon was designed for experimentation, not natural formation
• The mana density gradient — each level concentrates more ambient mana, empowering everything within it and making deeper exploration exponentially more dangerous
• The steel structures on Levels 21-25 and the castle/temple at the bottom — architecture from a civilization advanced enough to build inside extreme mana zones

Connections

• beneath — hallowfort
• explored_by — ilea
• explored_by — isalthar

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