The Dead Vault is a name given to a sprawling network of caverns, carved out by water, its entrance to be found around where the grasslands fade into the Nrassh Mountains. Though the Vault has been diligently mapped by generations of kiarrcats, new galleries are always waiting to be found. Crisp underground lakes, stunning crystalline formations, and rushing waterfalls are amongst some of the wonders to be found in its depths, for those willing to brave the tight passageways. Most of the Archetypes themselves historically dwelt in the upper to middle portions of the cave, leaving the lower galleries for ritual and space apart from the everyday world. Its current inhabitant has converted one of those upper chambers into a storage vault and workshop. Never one to throw anything away, he can usually be found tinkering on some project or other, and the other inhabitants of Dead Vault have gotten used to the odd explosion as a matter of course.
The Archetype of the Caves
Nobody is entirely sure where Imarr came from. After the death of the previous Cave Archetype, searches for the next incarnation turned up fruitless for many years, and it was assumed he had been born into a very remote location. The situation continued until the adolescent Imarr showed up one day in the chamber that is now his workshop, acting as though he had always been there. How he managed to evade detection for so long, nobody knows, but in his own words he knew exactly what he was and made his own way there. As far as he's concerned, it was all perfectly simple. Imarr is a stocky Cave, marked in natural tones of rich brown, deep black, and clean white, with amber archetype marks. As befits his role he is a little more habituated to the world above ground, though he usually employs a carved bone shade over his eyes to keep out the sun.