Legendary Locations

Dungeon


What is a Dungeon?

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is room or cell, often underground, where prisoners are held. While dungeons are typically associated with medieval castles, their connection to torture likely stems from the Renaissance period. One type of dungeon is the oubliette, named after the French word “oublier” meaning, “to forget”. This basement cell is accessible only through a small hatch or hole in the ceiling, making any chance to escape nearly impossible. It’s a place where prisoners were truly meant to be forgotten.

Although, many real

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s are just simple rooms with a heavy door or hidden entrance, their association with torture and our primal fear of being trapped underground has made them a powerful symbol. Dungeons are often imagined as vast, underground complexes filled with cells and torture chambers. This image is so strong that people often exaggerate the number of dungeons in castles to attract visitors. In reality, many rooms labelled as dungeons were actually water storage tanks or even toilets.

Dungeon Crawling

The Valley of Despair

A Dance in the Dark, was not only the first ever deity event, but also the first ever notable

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crawl to happen on World of Legends. Held in the Valley of Despair, a place formerly known as The Night God, Tenebria’s prison, players traversed through the valley, fighting the darkness and shadows only to find the true reason he was locked away. As a result, the players had all agreed to help release him.

Etho’s Labyrinth

The origin of the labyrinth is debated amongst historians, but it remains a sacred place and the heart of Eldathren. Years ago, there was an introductory plot for players to explore the depths of the labyrinth in the hopes of uncovering the secrets that lay within. Players had to go through certain choices by vote, in order to determine where they go next.

Isle of Los Dáinn

The Isle of Los Dáinn was a plot inspired by Minecraft, where the first part was a boat race to get to the isle itself, led by NPCs. The more users cheered, the better the boost the dice roll result would be. The second part of the plot consisted of users becoming players and referring to a gridded map, akin to some tabletop roleplaying games, to see if they have the luck of finding treasure. Conditions to gain certain treasure, like the nephrite ore, was that you needed to have collected three diamonds first to make a diamond pickaxe and only with said pickaxe could you mine the nephrite ore.

Deepfury Mine: A Dungeon

Deepfury Mine is a known location on site, for being the Great Prison, or in other words,

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. It is a notorious topic location on site, where a lot of users, prefer to roleplay in, trapped in the mines, as a prisoner or even sneak in. Though it is filled with a lot more history as to how it became the dungeon-esque prison today.

During the Great War, the mines were in overdrive to gather resources and materials, but it gave a massive strain on soldiers needed in battle. As a result, once King Hogreth Deepfury took the throne in 1806, he had sent out word to his soldiers to bring home any hostages they could find. Those hostages were put to use, sending them into the harsh climate of the mines with no escape. This allowed more Delvic workers to support the war effort by becoming soldiers.

As the war progressed, the king realised that the hostage miners weren’t enough. To combat this, King Hogreth declared to the people of Delvheim that anyone caught committing criminal offences, no matter the severity, would receive a lifelong sentence to work in the mines.

The original idea of the mine came from Hogreth’s second in command, Ogmund; He led the building of the first tunnel and oversaw the work of the prisoners. However, Ogmund was overheard sullying the name of King Hogreth and blamed him for the cruel actions he had to undertake when a prisoner disobeyed or didn’t meet the expectations of work.

Ogmund was the one who pushed for the mines to be named Deepfury, after King Hogreth to praise his highness’ brilliant idea. Though it was all a ruse to gain favour with the people of Delvheim; as Hogreth’s hatred grew, Ogmund turned on him and publicly executed the mad king. The rejoicing of the people wasn’t long lived as they soon came to realise that King Ogmund Usurper was much stricter. He enforced stricter laws to guarantee more prisoners were sent off to the mines.

Nowadays, Deepfury Mine only holds the most severe criminals in the eyes of the law. There is rumoured to be multiple levels of the dungeon for prisoners and that the lower the level, the more severe the crime committed.

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~ The Mystic, Hecate