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At Epos Studios our dear elves been working really hard and continuously delivering more content in Myths of Navaria™. As of writing moment the creation of Wynterford Cisterns is taking place; The hidden catacombs below the ancient city of Wynterford hides many secrets to all who live a normal live above the ground. During the decades, during the new age, the Guild of Engineers have been taking more and more control over those catacombs by carving through evidence of their presence …
Oil is brought in by ship and offloaded into the great holding tanks in the sea-cave system near sea-level. These enormous bronze tanks are heavily guarded, as igniting or rupturing them would cause a devastating blow to the city. Unbeknown to all except the Guild of Engineers; The oil is transported up through the cisterns from well to well using a series of pumps known as the Black Pumps. Each well has a Black Pump; And each pump is responsible for pushing the oil up to the next well. Oil is too thick and heavy to drive up the entire height from the sea to the city in one main artery due to the intense pressures involved. Each of the black pumps also delivers oil to it’s nearby lamps, allowing the Engineers who work in the cisterns to see about themselves. Fire around the Black Pumps is strictly prohibited. Only shielded lamps which hold their flame behind glass or a scraped leather shroud are permitted. Open flame torches, flame weapons, or fire-magic cannot be used in proximity to the Black pumps, as these pumps do release high levels of vaporized oil into the air around them. The pipes transporting the oil between pumps and wells are valved, meaning if ruptured, they will seal off from the oil source. The specific section of pipe will burn if hit by flame, and the lights connected to that line will dim to their pilot-glow until the pipe is repaired and the valve reset. The street-lights of Wynterford, as well as the work-lamps of the cisterns are all driven from the Black Pumps, but some of the work-lamps feature a reserve tank and an overpressure pump, allowing the lamps to burn for a limited time in outage of it’s supply pipe, or of the Black Pump. The Overpressure pumps can be charged up even when connected to the main supply to temporarily raise the light output of the work-lamps.