Deeper Well
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- "This goes all the way through to the other side. So, I figure, there's a bloke somewhere around New Zealand standing on a bridge like this one, looking back down at us. All the way down. There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known."
- ―Spike[src]
The Deeper Well was the burial ground for the Old Ones, where thousands of sarcophagi containing the corpses or essences of these ancient and powerful demons were kept to prevent their resurrection. Illyria, who had been assassinated by her enemies, was one of the Old Ones interred within the Deeper Well.
The Well was protected from tresspassers by a chosen warrior of good and a small army. Drogyn the Battlebrand was the Well's latest keeper, and had been so for some decades.
The Deeper Well could be accessed by two entrances, one in a cave beneath a tree in the Cotswolds, and the other in the Cotswolds antipode in New Zealand, as the Deeper Well was a hole in the world, running Earth all the way through, close to 8,000 miles.
