1. Cave Entrance: This natural cave entrance is often covered with brush to obscure it from sight.
2. Balconies: Walkways along the inside of the cliff face lead to these carefully concealed balconies set 30 feet above the desert floor. In times of attack, archers can man these balconies, raining arrows down on besiegers without risk of return fire. Other balconies lead to escape routes, so that scouts, assassins, and other small parties can come in and out without being seen.
3. Residences: This area, a separate chamber nearly 25 feet high, is where most of the inhabitants of the cave live. Temporary residents pitch tents or bedrolls here; more permanent residents have lean-tos and huts. In general, the longest residents live closer to the cave wall, and the most senior inhabitants of the Cache incorporate the wall into their residences.
4. Training Ground: This large (30 feet high) cavern is used for training warriors and thieves from the raiding, mercenary, and thieving claws. Pells, blunted weapons, weighted shields and other training equipment are stored at the edges. The training ground is lit and ventilated by a large hole in the top of the cavern. The hole is in a depression on the top of the massif in which the cave is built, but no one has yet found a safe exterior route to the top. In time of attack, lookouts climb up through the hole (using ropes attached by levitating mages). A sentry posted atop the mesa can see a large force coming for several miles. When training is not going on, this chamber also acts as a recreation and dining area. The elves congregate here because it affords them a clear view of the sky.
5. Mage's Hall: The only real building in the cavern complex, this structure houses the magical library and practice chambers for the mages. It is under the control of the magical claw, and is off limits to nonmages by Mistella's order. The library has a wide variety of magical texts carved on clay tablets and is rumored to be among the finest libraries outside the city-states. Unfortunately, the library is not well organized. To find a spell in the library, a mage need to search for several days. In addition to housing the magical library, the mage's hall is also where visiting mages (of the magical claw) reside. Mistella forbids her people to go to the common residential cavern without an explicit mission from her.
6. Storage area: This cavern is devoted to storing mercantile supplies, weapons, and other goods. Things are piled haphazardly here; there is no one individual responsible for caring for this area, and as a result it is impossible to find any but the largest and most plentiful items.
7. Spring: This spring provides water for all the inhabitants of the cavern. Water from the spring pools in a natural grotto below, which the inhabitants use as a cistern.