Labyrinth

Somewhere deep beneath east Hollywood and extending under Griffith Park, right on the border of The Valley, is a strange, mysterious maze. Its outer layers consist in part of sewers, disused drains, cellars, storage facilities, and utility maintenance tunnels. As one penetrates toward its center, things get much weirder.

Much of it is smooth stone construction, making it very difficult to say how old it is. There are yawning pits, false doors, pivoting floors; impossible angles, endless stairs, metal catwalks, weird intersections. It is tangled, gloomy, endless, bewildering.

The existence of the Labyrinth is a well-kept secret. Among vampires only Nosferatu know about it. The werewolves living in Griffith Park also know about it and normally stay away from it.

Jasper Heartwood has made it his personal project to map The Labyrinth. Jasper, while in a desperate need for blood, stumbled the Labyrinth and later a torpored Nosferatu lying on a stone slab and frenziedly fed off him, before fleeing, fearing he had killed him. However, upon returning sometime later, he discovered that the Nosferatu had not, in fact, met the final death and was still in the Labyrinth, still torpored and slowly healing.

## Known Features

* Markings of rats on the walls:
	+ When the marking shows a dead rat, it indicates a trip wire with a trap.
	+ Next to the mirror (see below) is the only marking of a live rat.
* Fire that emits no heat:
	+ In "Tooth And Claw" (1x07) Annabelle, Nelli G, Strikes a Chord, and Victor Temple saw a phenomenon that looks like fire but emits no heat. Annabelle was reminded of a vision X described to her of a fire underground and a Nosferatu.
* Ley Lines
* Unknown Nosferatu with an almost severed head in torpor lying on a stone slab
	+ In "Love and Fear" (3x02) Eva using Sense the Unseen, can see above the vampire, suspended in the air, "a tracery, a latticework of delicate red lines like veins" created by Blood Sorcery showing a map of LA. Upon grabbing one Eva sees Griffith Observatory, and upon grabbing another, sees an image of the Getty Museum before the map's defences kicked in.
	+ The identity of the Unknown Nosferatu is revealed in a later episode.

### Mirror/Portal

From one side, the mirror appears to be made of strange shadow energy and does not reflect. The mirror can be walked through to a different part of the Labyrinth. From the other side, the mirror is a completely normal mirror and reflects like a normal mirror. It cannot be walked through or seen through.

Walking through the mirror enters a void. There is no sound, light, heat, or feeling.

In "Tooth And Claw," the mirror led to a circular brick room with a large iron grate on the floor over a pit and first three then six doors leading different directions. The mirror disappeared as the group was looking around the room.

## Trivia

* The Labyrinth matches the description of the Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition Descendant of Zelios loresheet.

## **References**

1. ↑ See "Tooth And Claw" (1x07) at 57:54. Jason describes the Labyrinth.
2. ↑ See "Tooth And Claw" (1x07).
3. ↑ See "Pressure Lines" (4x05).
4. ↑ See "Tooth And Claw" (1x07) at 1:07:16.
5. ↑ See "Tooth And Claw" (1x07) at 1:06:48.
6. ↑ See "Tooth And Claw" (1x07) at 1:08:57.

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