Hot steam hissed from the vents in the polished basalt floor, creating a fine veil of mist that smelled of heavy machine oil and ozone. The gargantuan doors ahead—forged from a massive composite of high-grade steel and pulsing veins of radiant mithril—groaned open with a thunderous resonance that vibrated through the very marrow of Dayat's bones. Dayat, Dola, and Lunethra stepped into what was officially known as the beating heart of all Terragard civilization: The Grotto of Infinite Gears.
This was not merely a workshop; it was a cathedral of industry, a monument to the marriage of stone and soul.
