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THE SINKHOLE

The hidden world, walled off from everything

The Living World · Doline · The hidden world
A collapsed karst sinkhole, a pocket of forest walled by sheer rock
A collapsed karst sinkhole, a pocket of forest walled by sheer rock

A green room walled off by sheer limestone, reached only by descent.

Type
Doline / collapsed sinkhole
Real basis
Karst dolines and shafts
In the story
Descent, refuge, a secret kept
01

The place

A collapse in the karst opens a pit walled by sheer rock, its floor a pocket of forest closed off from everything around it. It is reached by climbing down.

02

In the story

A hidden world for descent, for refuge, or for a secret kept.

The Living World · TEBO 1 · The Dawn of Us. Imagery is AI-generated concept art. The Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat karst is a real region of East Kalimantan holding Liang Tebo.