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Created page with "An ancient tunnel under the Riftwall Mountains, the only direct connection between the Solar Highlands and the Great Rift. Exits on a small shelf south of Ithemba. == Origin == Excavated during the "golden age" of the Kel'tan empire, fairly soon after the splitting of Soefra from Noefra. Used for many things, but most notoriously to "dump the trash"--to exile those creations deemed "unworkable" or "unwanted" by the haughty gwerin purebloo..."

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An ancient tunnel under the [[Riftwall Mountains]], the only direct connection between the [[Solar Highlands]] and the [[Great Rift]]. Exits on a small shelf south of [[Ithemba]].

== Origin ==
Excavated during the "golden age" of the [[Kel'tan]] empire, fairly soon after the splitting of [[Soefra]] from [[Noefra]]. Used for many things, but most notoriously to "dump the trash"--to exile those creations deemed "unworkable" or "unwanted" by the haughty [[gwerin]] purebloods. These became the [[zandolit]] and other beast-folk that now call the Rift home.

It was sealed up in 2550 BC and fell into obscurity and ruin, used only as a boundary marker for the under-mountain [[goroesi]] and [[dwarves]].

=== Reopening ===
During the post-[[Cataclysm]] centuries, the guardian families of the Phoenix Empire (notorious for being politically neutral even at cost to themselves) secretly began excavating and repairing the highland-facing side of the tunnel, although they did not break all the way through.

In 254 AC, after the death of [[Hafgan ap Kel'tan]], the Phoenix Emperor, factions seeking to escape the chaos of the ensuing civil war worked with the guardian family to finish re-opening it, providing an escape valve. Since then some small groups of elves and others have escaped into [[Ithemba]]. This migration has not been without difficulty or opposition from both sides.
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