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darkhouse

5 ~ Darkhouse Darkhouse is imho the most interesting aspect of the undething. Whilst all the layers that combine to create Belen are horizontal, Darkhouse is a vertical space.  Rotunda. Quote: "We moved through several twisting hallways and down again using a stone spiral staircase...After about 50 steps the wide, spiralling staircase disappeared into a vast rolling pool of black water  Clinks is private. No rot or foulness. Clear water at the water table. The steps once went lower ... In srost, we are told Auri was in her own nest of rooms on Sub 1 looking for suitable bottles. Not finding one  she walked through a doorway before she 'twisted up through withy'. Which I assume to be like wooden scaffolding or tree even which allows her to rise closer to the surface. This path should take her up to the top of the underthing where she can also gain access to our Darkhouse staircase. 'she took the spiralling stairs through Darkhouse, down and around, down and around. ...
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Moving Mountains span

1 ~ How Old Archive Came To Be Now, despite all of the comparisons made to one, the Archive is not a solid block of grey stone as a waystone undoubtedly is. Yet nor is it exactly a hollow stone egg either, and so we ought to best think of it as being like a perfectly formed termite mound, in that it is honeycombed with many hidden passages and cavernous chambers, dotted throughout like lots of little pockets. Above ground these windowless walls house six stone floors and therefore six high ceilings which provide storage for thousands of books on miles of bookshelves that line all of it’s countless corridors. It also has hidden reading rooms, assorted offices and diverse departments for all the industrious scrivs and there are also lots of staircases, both up and down, to knit everywhere together in perfect secrecy behind the only ingress of the two massive stone doors. And every single inch of it, every wall and floor and step and door is all made out of same, solid, seamless grey ston...
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roadworks span

 As above… So below. BOOK π When I wrote these next pages back in 2020 I had reached a point in my tinfoil where I could nearly count up to eight. 8 Cities, 8 Chandrian, 8 Angels and 8 Amyr… there might even be 8 Sithe, too, but they are not important here…yet. But if we are going to uncover the true shape of the world then we are going to need somewhere to stand. So it's finally time to go to The University. The Archives is one of the cornerstones of civilization which in another world (ours) would be regarded as one of the seven wonders, a dominant feat of engineering to dwarf all others. Sod Tinuë, all modern roads should lead to the Archives and so I think we had better start to begin drawing a few of my strings back together again for tangling together before knotting off at the present day. This is probably going to get a bit messy since I will, in part, be working backwards again, but this is also a real time deconstruction being built right now as I prepare to map the insid...
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