Mirrorlight Galleries

• Original Purpose: Simply natural crystal caves explored by the curious.
• Current Purpose: Curated into halls of art, historical murals, memorials, and spaces for reflection or storytelling.

• Long corridors, circular exhibition halls, narrow bridges over crystal pits.
• Many walls are smooth as glass, others jagged with natural facets that catch light dramatically.
• Murals made from embedded gem slivers depict epic tales.

• Main entrance is a double archway flanked by two towering crystal totems that glow softly.
• Dozens of smaller tunnel entries, each carefully marked by engraved plaques.

• Sight: Everywhere is color — refracted light splits into a thousand moving bands.
• Sound: Voices echo in unpredictable ways, sometimes returning from far away or from behind you.
• Smell: A faint tang of crystal dust, cool and clean.
• Touch: Walls are cool and slightly vibrating, almost as if breathing.

• Gallery guides called Lumescribes lead tours and maintain the delicate crystalwork.
• Glow-lizards and tiny crystal mites live harmlessly among the displays.
• Artists come here to meditate or paint under living rainbows.

• Stone benches positioned for optimal viewing.
• Floating crystal lanterns that drift slowly along pre-set paths.
• Inscription pedestals where visitors can leave etchings of their own family marks or short prayers.

• Ancient crystal panels inscribed with lost languages.
• Some display pieces are enchanted to replay historical scenes in shimmering illusions — priceless cultural relics.

Certain resonance points can overload if struck by loud noise or strong magic, causing localized crystal shatters that can be deadly.

Whisper-channels built into the galleries allow curators to carry messages across great distances via carefully pitched tones.

New halls are still being incorporated as Glimmerdeep expands, and certain delicate older galleries are periodically closed for “healing” (magical resonance rebalancing).

No straight lines: everything curves or spirals, echoing natural crystal growth. Intricate fractal patterns etched by gem-carvers enhance the interplay of light.

Defensive wards hidden in decorative mosaics can unleash blinding bursts of light or create near-invisible resonance barriers.

Site of the Concord of Echoes, where artists from three underrealms gathered to pledge shared protection of underground heritage.

• Popular with both pilgrims and surface aristocrats; guided “prism tours” offered nightly.
• Many propose in the Mirrorlight Galleries under dancing rainbow auroras.