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Elemental Prisons

Summary

The elemental prisons are ancient containment systems that imprisoned eight powerful beings as batteries for the Barrier.

Known Details

Elementals said the Barrier was enslavement and that oppressors used them as batteries.
The eight beings imprisoned to power the Barrier were Valentinhide, Anorazorak, Garadule, Limusvita, Salinus, Leedus the auroch, Merikok, and Papa Marmaru.
Salinus’ Prison, also known as the Salt Dragon Prison, contained Salinus, the Earth-and-Water-associated salt dragon, inside a smaller barrier.
Garadule was imprisoned in the Desert Prison after consuming a void elemental.
User clarification says Merikok’s prison was somewhere near Garadule’s Desert Prison, but the exact prison site remains unresolved.
Quasi-elemental lore distinguishes salt and water, with salt poisoning or polluting water elementals.
Cardonal described seven prisons, five labs, three Grand Towers levels, and teleport-circle codes, with other sites near pylons, a Goldenswell impact site, Riversmeet menagerie, a Goliath city, and missing dwarf and Goliath cities.
Earlier uncertain names and descriptions for the prisoners included Salinus or Salias of salt, Limus Vita / Limnuvela of ooze or life, Merocole, Papa I Meurina, and Valentinhide; the settled list is now preserved above.
Ruby Eye’s prison-status readout used an effigy, runes, and prison connections; the Grand Tower control centre and Ruby Eye lab wheels could affect prison systems.
Ennui’s siphoning of life force from his prison replicated across the prison system and weakened all prisons.
The Everchard Prison, also called the life prison, was converted into flesh by high-level Carnamancy and siphoned by The Mother, Betrayer; Limusvita survived by holding the Barrier up.
User clarification says the prisons were leaking. The leak in Limusvita’s prison caused frogs and moths around Everchard to grow unusually large.
User clarification says the leak in Salinus’s prison caused the poisoned land around Seaward.
The Guilt claimed it could reset the control room and fix a prison, and later admitted it accidentally opened a prison while controlling a wizard.
Tremon, the Earth Excellence, was killed and left a jagged purple crystal skull artifact made partly from shield crystal.
Day 42 Ashkelon prison rooms contained air, light, goat, sphinx, copper-dragon, mirror, and other entities behind barriers, including Trixus, Steven, Hephaestoos, and a copper dragon from Snowsorrow.
Ennui was still imprisoned and missing soul-parts including guilt, misery, and possibly sorrow, compassion, Joy, and mercy; the elves had learned to remove soul-parts in an attempt to perfect themselves.
Day 43 says Hephaestoos was only his soul, wanted a pact, and may have been asked to attack the dome; Trixus could help with memories but a spell inside the Barrier interfered.
Cardonal’s Day 43 teleportation-circle list included seven prisons with no defences, labs with uncertain defences, Grand Towers factory/control/meeting lounge, Menagerie, Ashkhellon, and five pylons.
Day 44 recovered historical material on emotional elimination, automations, and a possible core or sphere network from the old mage school.
Day 47 Lady Evalina Hartwall’s Laboratory records show ice-prison runes disappearing, an elemental puzzle placed into an elemental ball, and an ice elemental ball later given to a fire elemental before the fireplace rift was dispelled and closed.
The Ice Prison near Rimewatch held Leedus the auroch and Anorazorak, and contained lightning and snowflake doors, handleless doors, black sap or rubber seals, a semicircular oracle room, an iced snake door, and prisoners or door heads named Dorion, Tim, and Geoffrey.
One dark door led to an ancient dwarven hold containing a massive shaggy blue aurora; Geldrin promised to return once the dome could be powered without exploiting elementals.
Bynx explained that where the pure elemental planes meet, they combine.
Day 51 added Papa Marmaru’s Prison, also called the lava orb prison, in an underground dwarven city, Ruby Eye’s charges of elemental spirit entrapment, and Ruby Eye’s statement that there were six elemental forces all along.
Killing Pride released a void elemental that absorbed its brother, teleported away, and may also have absorbed Pride.
Day 51’s dwarven prison in Magstein included pylon runes, a key or wheel to open a dome, a featureless lost part of Valentinhide, and a claim that elemental planes were a highway used in a world-making pact.
Day 52 says destroying the dome would cancel all pacts and release all prisons.
Day 54 elementals at the Magstein / Grimcrag bridge were appeased with about 100 coins to their mother, adding another unresolved elemental authority or relation.
Day 55 adds Papa Marmaru’s dome and Papa Marmaru / Merikok to the prison network: Papa’s Dome had a hole that could not be repaired without pylons, Papa had more freedom and was treating dwarves as they had treated him, and Merikok appeared as a smoke sphere with spidery legs and a human face.
Day 58 reveals Merikok appears to be the fallen form of Kokirem, the dwarven sphinx, and that part of him is missing.
Day 56 Grand Towers control-room systems included prison runes, statue states, a black shard claimed to be an elemental of Void, a Frost pole ball for switching frost elementals, and possible dome activation that captured Bynx’s sphynx brothers: Trixus, Benu, and Garadule. The dome also drained the party like elementals, especially near the edges.
User clarification says the elemental prisoner inside the mountain at Coalmount Falls is not related to the Barrier prison system.

Timeline

day-14: The party learns of elemental battery claims, Garadule, Salinus, and Salinus’ Prison.
day-15: Elementarium explains quasi-elemental categories and salt-water problems.
day-17: Leaking elemental prisons are part of the urgent Barrier crisis.
day-24: Cardonal’s lab reveals the larger prison/lab/Grand Towers network and named prisoners.
day-25: Rimewatch identifies Ice Prison concerns and Ennui’s system-wide siphoning.
day-26: The party investigates the Ice Prison and Everchard Prison / life prison, then moves to Baytail Accord.
day-27: The Guilt offers to fix a prison and gives an Abyssal-inscribed ring.
day-30: Valentinhide, Galatrayer, Salinus, and barrier energy depletion become urgent.
day-32: Tremon the Earth Excellence dies, leaving a skull artifact.
day-42: Ashkelon exposes multiple prison rooms and confirms Trixus, Steven, Hephaestoos, the copper dragon, and Ennui-related soul-part issues.
day-43: Trixus is released, Hephaestoos’s soul status is discussed, and the Riversmeet memory-interference spell is located.
day-44: Riversmeet school history reveals old emotional-elimination and automation research connected to later prison and Barrier problems.
day-47: The party explores Ice Prison structures, negotiates with prisoners and door heads, learns more about dome power dependency, and closes the fire elemental rift.
day-48: The party closes the fire elemental rift.
day-51: Ruby Eye is found imprisoned in a prison cell on charges that include elemental spirit entrapment, Papa Marmaru’s lava orb prison appears, a void elemental escapes after Pride is killed, and a dwarven prison reveals pylon, dome, and Valentinhide-lostness clues.
day-52: Bridged-domain revelations state that the dome anchors pacts and that all prisons release if the dome is removed.
day-54: Elementals near the bridge accept coins for their mother.
day-55: Papa Marmaru’s Dome, Merikok, and Papa Marmaru expand the pylon and prison-control problem.
day-56: Grand Towers control-room runes, Void and frost components, and dome drain show the prison network still active.

Open Questions

Were they imprisoned for danger, exploited for power, or both?
How do sand and void fit the quasi-elemental model?
Why do some sources say eight imprisoned beings while Cardonal lists seven prisons?
Which prison did The Guilt accidentally open, and can its help be trusted?
Which of the Ashkelon barrier rooms were prisons, protections, or both?
Where are Ennui’s and Ennui’s missing soul-parts or emotions, and can Trixus restore them?
Which Day 47 frost-prison beings are prisoners, guards, door mechanisms, or displaced entities?
Can the dome be powered without the elementals, as Geldrin promised?
What are the six elemental forces Ruby Eye remembered?
What is the escaped void elemental after absorbing its brother and possibly Pride?
Would releasing all prisons by destroying the dome be liberation, disaster, or both?
Who is the elementals’ mother, and why would coins appease her?
How do Papa Marmaru’s dome and Papa Marmaru’s identity relate to the eight-prison system?
What does the black shard elemental of Void contain or release?
Did dome activation capture Bynx’s sphynx brothers, Trixus, Benu, and Garadule, and can they be released safely?

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