Midgard Express (Centithread)

The realm of Midgard consists of an innumerable collection of small floating islands and a few massive continent sized land masses. All adrift in the great Cloud seas, born aloft by the floatstone embedded in their very cores and through the rocks that form the structures of their existence.

In the depths of the larger land masses, extreme pressures and temperatures have ignited the floatstone and carved out great caverns lit only by the eldritch flickering glow of the floatstone that burns to this day.

And in these caverns lies the great federation of Lemuria. This alliance consists of villages and cities hewn from the stone of the caverns themselves. And this great empire of the darkness beneath stretches between many land masses, connected by underdark portals and great darkened highways through which men and materiel flow like water through a river.

The greatest of these highways is the Cavern Expressway, often referred to as just “The Express”. This expressway is one of the largest and most ambitious projects of the Collegia Scholarium and connects the great cities and towns of the underdark with an endless track made of the finest spellsteel. And along these tracks run the great Centithread engines. These are mighty clockwork trains built by the finest artificers of the School of motion. And powered by mighty floatstone enhanced magnetic levitation motors. These wonders of Ivory Tower technomancy float above the spellsteel tracks and traverse the vast darkened caverns and tunnels of the Darkness beneath at prodigious speeds. Stations at every major underground city and to passages to the surface create a vast network that spans the whole of known Midgard.

Those who find themselves lost in the ancient tunnels and caverns need only walk in one direction long enough and will inevitably come across the tracks of the great expressway. And for those caught underground or unable to acquire a skyship, finding an expressway station is often the fastest and most expedient means of travel to any corner of the great plane of Midgard.

Credit: Arcadeous Phoenix