Editing Great Shaft (section)

== Design ==
Guild Master [[Garten]] of the Guild of Surveyors designed the Shaft. It is a large cylindrical space with a single ramp threading its way down the side. At the top is an overlook balcony and a door leading to the last [[rest house]] before the surface. A similar rest house is located roughly halfway down the shaft.

At the base of the shaft, the ramp gives way to another observation deck. Flights of stairs dug into the rock behind the shaft wall connect this balcony to the floor. Four piers also extend out from the observation deck, but do not connect at the center, leaving an open-air space. The central portion of the shaft's floor is a platform which can be raised to connect the piers. The pillars supporting the piers act as massive screws, lifting and lowering the platform. Underneath is a service tunnel, which runs beneath the path leading out from the bottom of the Great Shaft. This tunnel provides access to the fan circulation controls in the adjoining node room.