Salt Foundries

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Masterminded by the famous business tycoon  Malkiar Vendra, the Salt Foundries is the industrial solution to the Hammertree problem. By conscripting all dissidents, criminal elements, and political agitators into an efficient workforce, metal costs can remain low and competetive, and output high enough to supply the nation's glorious war machine.

The Surface
The top layer of the Salt Foundries consists of factories and processing plants sprawling over a huge patch of land along the Hammertree coast. The black and red smoke tints the sky, and turns sunsets bloody and hopeless for all who toil under the smokestacks of oppression.

The Cells
Below the churning and chaos of the factory floors, the prisoners stay in several layers of cells just below the surface, often in less than humane conditions, depending on their crime or political standing. The Salt Foundry isn't a time sentence: it's a delayed death sentence.

What Lies Below?
Beneath the chaos above lies yet more horrors, it would seem. The changeling hive Reloth has lived for centuries in the caves below the factory, breeding and evolving, forever scheming to control every world above. The predatory nature of the shapeshifter hive is even more apparent down in the darkness, where they have evolved specialized roles and responses to become the perfect hunters of all life above. Traps, mazes, and murderous shapeshifters await all who dare enter.