The Primal Engine

Item from The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman

The ancient planetary power source grafted into Earth itself — older than the Syndicate, it underlies all dungeon technology and has begun exhibiting autonomous primal behavior.

Also known as: Primal Engine, The Engine, Earth's Engine, The Primal

What They Know

• The Primal Engine is older than the Syndicate itself and is permanently grafted into the planet.
• The System AI's reality-warping powers come from being grafted directly into the Primal Engine.
• Rare primal elements are the true economic purpose of the crawl — failure to harvest them could kill half the universe.
• The engine is destabilizing as the System AI goes primal, causing the Nothing to leak into the deepest floors.
• Enhancement zones powered by the engine provide the dungeon's physics — Borant cheaped out with a dual-layer system.
• The Mantids originally asked to field-test Macro AI-controlled Enhancement Zones, sparking the creation of Dungeon Crawler World.

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