When the World Shook Chapter 14 - The Under-world

In which the visitors, guided by the enigmatic Glittering Lady, descend swiftly into a vast, luminously eerie Under-world city that stands deserted yet preserved as though time itself has paused; there they encounter the venerable Lord Oro amid magnificent and mysterious ancient splendours that evoke both awe and a haunting solitude. As they partake of the Life-water that bestows strange vigour and fleeting insight, the party is drawn deeper into the solemn grandeur and profound mysteries of this subterranean realm.