Kahf Al-Arwah

The Cave of Souls — the black massif at the world’s dead centre, weakest point of the Seal, and the endgame.

The black massif at the centre of the world is hollow, and the hollow has no fixed shape. Every descent carves its own maze out of the rock — halls, forks and dead ends laid down fresh — down to a throne where a Lord waits, drawn from a pool so no two endings are quite alike. Beneath them all, Al-Marid dreams.