Maelstrom

The Maelstrom also known as the "Citadel of Karlith" is the main location within the Karlith Legion.

## Description

Karlith is a massive corpse/skeletal structure of a presumed dead creature from an unknown origin it is located within a massive basalt cavern, which has been overgrown with numerous flora from The Nether. The main Karlith structure is a long protuding bone which reaches the ceiling of the cavern, the cavern itself goes above the normal height of The Nether roof. At the top of this main bone, it shatters and warps to attach itself to the ceiling of the cavern. At the bottom of the bone, flesh tendrils and veins wrap themselves around the base of the cavern and the six other rib-like bone structures which are located in a circular shape around the main bone. There are numerous holes in the main bone, which sometimes have bridges leading into them from various cave entrances from the basalt walls of the cavern.

### Layers of Karlith

Karlith is made up of numerous layers located inside of the main bone structure, the main entrance is located at the 2nd layer, where most inhabitants or travellers will be accustomed too. On this layer there are residential housing, a central meeting area, a tall spire which reaches all the way to the 4th layer and many other buildings like inns, resturants and many trading alleys. The entirety of Karlith is made up of bone, flesh and nether flora. It is lit up mostly be shroomlights and glowstone. Karlith's 3rd layer is hardly accessible but is mainly used by members of Karlith to observe from above or for drying meats and hanging various objects from the flesh and bone tendrils which reach across the dome of the 2nd layer. The 4th layer is innaccesible to most creatures as it requires extreme agility to jump or climb from one platform to another. As the bone is less dense as the warping of the structure is reaching the roof of the basalt cavern. The 5th layer is mostly empty with just bone structures reaching the roof of the basalt cave, the only visible object is Abysmoa's presumed home, which looks like a porous hanging sac made of mostly gold and bone. It has numerous holes in it which have lights glowing from them. It is unknown what it truly is. Some members of Karlith believe it to be the birth-place of Abysmoa.

### The Value System

An item's value seems to be self determined by whoever is in possession of the item, as well as by itself based on the importance the item has to its owner. When a customer damages an item before it is paid for, an event called "The Balancing" occurs. The perpetrator's possessions of equal value is destroyed. The perpetrator may even be maimed in order to compensate for the defacement, if the value of the damaged item is high enough.

Though this doesn't always seem the case, as the value of objects doesn't seem entirely based on what the possessors thoughts on the item is but rather how they really feel it is in value, either by it being important to them deeply or rarity within the world of Erium. It is entirely possible that value is determined by one's self-attachment through various means or by the rarity of said object or even effeciency or power. For example; certain resources although not emotionally attached to its possessor still have high value, to certain possessors. But in most occassions it is based entirely on how important the item is to its possessor.