Rumors & the Undercity

Not Everything Happens in the Light

Curna presents itself as a city of order, reason, and intellectual advancement.

Its streets tell another story.

Travelers speak of hidden passages beneath the city.

Forbidden congregations.

Illegal experiments.

Unregistered inventions.

Private societies.

And competitions that Curna's authorities would prefer did not exist.

One particularly persistent rumor describes an underground arena where magic and machinery are tested against one another.

According to the stories, spellcasters, artificers, inventors, and mechanical constructs compete before carefully selected spectators.

Officials rarely speak publicly about such claims.

That has done very little to stop people from looking for the entrance.

Whether every rumor about Curna's underground is true is difficult to determine.

Curnanites themselves would probably suggest collecting additional evidence.