Post by Sire Halfblack on Jul 24, 2010 22:06:38 GMT
The Town of Olsen’s Mine is without doubt the heart of Deci’s Mining community. For here lies the greatest Ore Mine in the Empire and quite possibly in Primus, The Great Delve. The mine produces vast quantities of Tin and Iron, no other source in the Empire can compare, not even Eartholme. Strangely Eartholme and Deci do not compete over the metals with Eartholme specialising in precious metals and Deci in common ore, workable metals. How this came about and how a lack of competition between the two cities came about is anyone’s guess, although some might point at a secret agreement between the Vizier of Deci and Fidgit, late Governor of Earthome.
In Maii IM 1006 the city established the Forged Mine, designed personally by Jander himself using his abilities both mundane and mystical of Jander to enhance the mine already present quite considerably. A truly enormous excavation, one that both dug deeply into the earth and whose material appearance above the ground scars the city with its tall air flues, slag heaps, and the clouds of dirt that seem to gather about the land above the excavation. It was a truly immense undertaking and made use of the natural caverns that linked together several smaller arteries of ore, raising bridges across cracks and filling the catacombs to the city with the distant sound of a hundred picks but the Forge did not stop there.
In Deeber IM 1006, in time for the Final Dawn, Jander oversaw the expansion of the Forged Mine to become the vast and expansive mine known simply as The Great Delve dominating large tracts of Deci’s rural land, not merely by the slag heaps or the abyss like depths to which the Great Delve plunged but the manner by which it became the overlaying theme in the people’s thoughts, the never-dispersing clouds of dust and smoke that gather about it. Filthy, stinking and terrible the Great Delve is a wound upon the earth, one that pollutes and scars the very earth for leagues about it an offence to nature itself some say but it produces incredible amounts of ore!
In Maii IM 1006 the city established the Forged Mine, designed personally by Jander himself using his abilities both mundane and mystical of Jander to enhance the mine already present quite considerably. A truly enormous excavation, one that both dug deeply into the earth and whose material appearance above the ground scars the city with its tall air flues, slag heaps, and the clouds of dirt that seem to gather about the land above the excavation. It was a truly immense undertaking and made use of the natural caverns that linked together several smaller arteries of ore, raising bridges across cracks and filling the catacombs to the city with the distant sound of a hundred picks but the Forge did not stop there.
In Deeber IM 1006, in time for the Final Dawn, Jander oversaw the expansion of the Forged Mine to become the vast and expansive mine known simply as The Great Delve dominating large tracts of Deci’s rural land, not merely by the slag heaps or the abyss like depths to which the Great Delve plunged but the manner by which it became the overlaying theme in the people’s thoughts, the never-dispersing clouds of dust and smoke that gather about it. Filthy, stinking and terrible the Great Delve is a wound upon the earth, one that pollutes and scars the very earth for leagues about it an offence to nature itself some say but it produces incredible amounts of ore!