Dharan-Tun

Dharan-Tun is moon-sized and travels through space under its own power, its engines described as huge as empires and powerful as suns. Its exterior is black and mottled white. The surface is covered in level ice stained red with epsomite and vitriol, and pocked with craters and blast pits. Craters are rimmed by bulwarks of black iron, with fortress towers and ramparts rising from the ice. Vast plains of frost extend across the surface, broken by trenches exposing fires beneath. Icy mountains are crowned with industrial stacks. Mountain-sized engines have vast apertures; the great engines glow as deep pits with blue fires at their bases. A deep ice canal, carved by nature and inhuman hands, leads from the surface to the interior gate. A huge channel built into a rift valley in the surface ice serves as a dock, equipped with cranes and gantries. Great shipyards are carved into crater walls and sinkholes, equipped with gantries and mechanical arms. Grub farms are maintained near the surface. The worldship's twin warp projector arrays form a chasm running nearly a third of its circumference.

Following Voidmaker's strike, a gaping chasm opens in the surface ice. Cascading system failures cripple the worldship's engines, preventing further warp travel. The worldship is placed in orbit around the gas giant Ywain; within hours of the battle it risks falling into Ywain's caustic atmosphere.

Below the surface, a subterranean city occupies vast caverns. The interior is riddled with warrens, tunnels, and pits of ice, iron, and naked stone. The interior features webbed stone walls, organic arches, and red illumination. Cruel iron towers rise above rivers of magma. The central interior cavern holds millions of Cielcin lining terraces, mounds, and walls. Buildings of human construction -- towers and domes of steel -- stand above the Cielcin-carved terraces; these were added during the Minoan period when Minoan sorcerers also constructed lifts and additional tunnels. Great reservoirs hold entire oceans of drinking water, filtered through desalinating plants. The worldship connects to an underworld with gates accessible from the surface.

Prisoners taken from Berenike were interned in labor camps aboard the worldship. Human and Cielcin slaves labor in the grub farms. Human slaves also labor in the rift valley channel docking area. The subterranean city houses millions of Cielcin and their thralls. The Baetayan carve historical records on the palace walls of Dhar-Iagon. Cielcin warriors in black robes drill in grottoes of gray stone within the palace complex. The scions of the Prophet's court wear bands of gold and golden rings on their horns and arms. A Hakurani slave named Radhassa serves in Dorayaica's throne room.

Dharan-Tun was the flagship of the Cielcin fleet and the capital of the Cielcin empire under the Pale King, Syriani Dorayaica. Hushansa, a tripartite Extrasolarian being -- three bodies animated by a distant will, with the actual form being a brain and spinal cord housed in an Extrasolarian steel egg -- served as Dorayaica's instrument of fate. All three of Hushansa's bodies are found dead following the pulse from Miudanar's reawakening. Following the death of Dorayaica and the crippling of the worldship by Voidmaker, the Watchers Ushara and Miudanar escaped the destruction of Dhar-Iagon and departed. Dharan-Tun is effectively leaderless.

The surface is studded with fortress towers and iron docks carved into crater walls, served by gantries and mechanical arms. Voidmaker's strike leaves a gaping chasm in the ice surface.

**Dhar-Iagon**: The palace at the heart of the subterranean city, reached by a bridge crossing a river of magma. The palace contains cavernous feasting halls and a hall of gods housing statues of the Watchers -- Miudanar, Iaqaram, Pthamaru, Shamazha, Shetebo, Nazhtenah, and others. Warriors in black robes drill in grottoes of gray stone within the complex. The Baetayan have carved histories on the palace walls. Dhar-Iagon is destroyed following Voidmaker's strike and the cascading system failures; the Watchers Ushara and Miudanar escaped from it before its destruction.

**Throne room**: A hemispherical dome of white stone within Dhar-Iagon, accessible only through a single narrow crack door and by a spur of black stone bridge barely wide enough for one person, crossing a chasm. The dome's interior is in total darkness. The Pale King's throne is a simple block of stone within the dome.

**Rift valley channel dock**: A large docking facility built into a rift valley in the surface ice, equipped with cranes and gantries.

**Ice canal gate**: A deep canal carved into the surface ice by nature and inhuman hands, leading to the interior gate. Entry to the interior is through an airlock bridge crossing a chasm.