The Black Archive
Time Dilation
Shell 1:3
Mantle 1:9
Heart 1:81
Wardens
Blood (Conception of Chaos)
Spirit (Crystalline Echoes)
Thought (Fragment of Reality)
Barriers
The Circumference (outer wall, voidstone, self-healing)
The Curtain
(invested white marble, rune-marked walls of force)
The Quadrangle
(four separate gates, protected by grotesques, require 'keys' in the form of spell components)
Zones
The Shell
128 quarries here, each need 1 essence to open
Wardens are here
The Mantle
16 quarries here, each need 1 of each essence to open
Vestiges of The Four are here
The Heart
1 quarry here, unknown process to open
Soul-locked
Each zone is bound to a different Curate
Darkness
The entire archive is unlit unless; a section alights when its corresponding Curate is present in the archive
Spell Suppression
Any leveled spell must pass a DC or fail to cast
Tilt
When no Curates are present, the entire archive rotates 90 degrees