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Blaekpit Mine
Posted on February 15, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Mathien Plateau (abandoned) is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau.
The north fork of the High Mathien Road runs from Angan Rock, through Treste, and on to the Watch Vault of Kunlay, Blaekpit Mine and finally to Tunnlin Hamlet.
Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.
History: Riverdans (History of Dovender Valley and The Dog Fort)
Mining Camp (ruins)
Mine Proper
Mine Trail
Mine Entrance
Mine Upper Reaches
The upper reaches are dangerous and still partially intact. Small cave-ins and collapses are probable with any exploration in its current state. Any attempt at mining without shoring passages and extra caution would likely be Disastrous.
Mine Lower Reaches
There is no safe way to get to the main potentially active veins and seam.
Greyskar Mine
Posted on February 15, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Greyskar Mine is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau. It is an old Iron Mine, though most of the easily minred materials have been so. With the flooding and abandonment of the plateau, the wreckage and debris were scattered and workers scavenged what was left before they left.
The south fork of the High Mathien Road runs from Angan Rock, through the town of Saevrin, and on to Caenans Mine and Sifters Gap and finally to Greyskar Mine.
Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.
History: Riverdans (History of Dovender Valley and The Dog Fort)
Mining Camp (ruins)
Mine Proper
Mine Trail
Mine Entrance
Mine Upper Reaches
The upper reaches are dangerous and still partially intact. Small cave-ins and collapses are probable with any exploration in its current state. Any attempt at mining without shoring passages and extra caution would likely be Disastrous.
Mine Lower Reaches
There is no safe way to get to the main potentially active veins and seam.
Caenan’s Mine (flooded)
Posted on February 15, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Caenan’s Mine is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau. It is a Kaolin mine used for healing properties and ceramics, it was a small load and the easily accessed materials were played out within a few hundred years. There was enough so that locals still delved into it to make local pottery. Here there is actually two mines, one was producing the kaolin and the other, still productive, coal.
The south fork of the High Mathien Road runs from Angan Rock, through the town of Saevrin, and on to Caenans Mine and Sifters Gap and finally to Greyskar Mine.
Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.
History: Riverdans (History of Dovender Valley and The Dog Fort)
Caenan’s Mine
The mine was flooded when the controls for White Lake above it were broke by the druids and disaster happened.
Mining Camp (ruins)
The mining camp has long been stripped of anything of value. There is no organic material left, just foundations of buildings, paths, and mining structures that were flooded over and destroyed.
Mine Trail
Washed out and covered in rubble – much like the entire area.
Mine Entrance
Washed out and covered in rubble – much like the entire area.
Mine Upper Reaches
Mostly flooded.
Mine Lower Reaches
Flooded
The Sagilcrest Coal Mine
The coal seam that the kaolin ran through continued to be worked as a local heating source up until the area was abandoned. The mine was flooded when the controls for White Lake above it were broke by the druids and disaster happened.
Mining Camp (ruins)
The mining camp has long been stripped of anything of value. There is no organic material left, just foundations of buildings, paths, and mining structures that were flooded over and destroyed.
Mine Trail
Washed out and covered in rubble – much like the entire area.
Mine Entrance
Washed out and covered in rubble – much like the entire area.
Mine Upper Reaches
Mostly flooded.
Mine Lower Reaches
Flooded
Town of Saervin (ruins)
Posted on February 15, 2025 in Steel-Realms
Town of Saervin is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau. This was the largest settlement on the plateau when it was active, with a population of about 700.
The south fork of the High Mathien Road runs from Angan Rock, through the town of Saevrin, and on to Caenans Mine and Sifters Gap and finally to Greyskar Mine.
Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.
History: Riverdans (History of Dovender Valley and The Dog Fort)
White Lake
Posted on February 15, 2025
White Lake is part of the abandoned area of The Maithen Plateau. White Lake is a high hill lake 300′ up from the plateau base and about 1m long and .5 wide of mostly very clear water. When heavy rains flowed, it would get tinged with white from the Kaolin deposits. There used to be several small creeks (with small amounts of pyrite sifting and panning) that spilled down from it, but when the mines nearby needed water for sifting and straining, a series of sluice gates was built to bring down pressurized water to the reservoir at Sifter’s Gap.
White Lake lives up to its name, with obvious white kaolin clay deposits around its basin. The area is desolate and the winds make strange sounds. there is evidence of a few stone structures near the edge of the lake that have long collapsed. Swirls of fog drift off the lake, moving swiftly over the ground, on down to the plateau below. Ripples emanate from some unseen force across the surface of the lake. You feel a strange aura of forced stillness, a building tension permeates the air but never seems to break.
Originally amphibians and dragonflies were the only inhabitants of the lake area, but settlers brought in trout which have flourished, while drawing some predator birds to the area. These have mostly vanished now.
Hard Difficulty History: Riverdans (History of the Mathien Plateau)
You remember that the power the druids awakened here at White Lake to scour the plateau was never fully put to rest. The strange sounds, weather, and feelings that those on the plateau experience, causing it to remain abandoned, all are sourced from this place.
Encounters: It has the encounters common to all Places on the Maithean Plateau.
- The mists, breezes, and rain up here is likely to trigger a Mists of Memory experience due to the residual power of the anima fount here.
History
“Calamity of White Lake“: When the forces of the Orrish overran The Maithen Plateau settlements in CY 8802 and The Watch Vault of Kunlay, the druids summoned a powerful anima spirit like they did at Spakaya (The Dog Fort), that drew forth all the water in the underground area and White Lake to sweep everything aside. A raging, frothing water steed led the front of a massive wave, drawing it along, and grinding the retreating forces that had overwhelmed Kunlay back into its breach, cracking rocks and sweeping them back into The Underlands.