The shaft

Threshold Institute · Site record

Name

The shaft

Part of

The Institute's site

The Institute began at the bottom of the state's deep mine shaft, 1,140 metres down (T-001). On the first day of what became the Institute's calendar, the crew of foreman Viktor Brandt broke into a cavity that no survey had shown. In the middle of it hung a tear in the air, and in the dust of the cavity floor were long tracks with marks like claws, which all went to the tear and came back from it (T-001).

The ministry closed the mine within the week. The mining company's records were burnt, and the crew were sworn to silence and paid for it (T-001). The cavity became the containment chamber, and what was built above it became the lab (T-001).

Found here

The files that name this place in their line on where the threshold was found:

File	Found	Where found
T-001 The rift	Year 1, month 1, day 1	The bottom of the state’s deep mine shaft, 1,140 metres down, under what became the lab