The Vaults and the Builders

Each vault was created as a large scale experiment in the nature of life, thought and consciousness. The builders wanted to discover the essence of godhood within a vast comparative study. The builder noted that animals did not have the same connection to the divine as sentient souls, even those bereft of magic abilty. What is it about the conscious mind that connects to the divine? The vaults were meant to answer this question. Or, that is what scholars believe.

Experimental conditions of vaults

The Black Desert: Designed to test the role of the afterlife the vault was an artificial hades.

The Crystal Womb:

Deep Tolguth: Is there an evolutionary point life must reach to achieve conscious thought?

Denebrum: In this vault the builders the builders experimented with beings whose extreme life cycle would very slowly raise them up from animal to being as well as distributed consciousness. The Neothelids and worms that walk are the results of these experiments.

Doga-Delloth: Experimental parameters unknown.

Ilvarandin: This vault captured dreamers and caused them to physically manifest in the city. The paradise city was built by sleepers. After the departure of the builders the vault was invaded by intellect devourers, psychic parasites from the far across the Leng plateau.

Land of the Black Blood:

The Midnight Mountains: Some plants are sentient, is there a difference between how plants and animals develop a connection to the divine.

Minos-Pashat: The parameters of the experiment are unknown.

The Sightless Sea: It is unknown if the sea was created by the Aboleth, for the Aboleth by the Builders, the Aboleth conquered it, or was there before the Builders began the vaults.