Editing Elemental Pole (section)

===Lightning & Steam===
These two Elemental Poles are so similar that they are usually discussed in tandem, as both are power-generators and effectively function as the Primordial's circulatory system. Due to the requirements of producing the energy that keeps Autochthon alive and his interior habitable, they are incredible dangerous for mere mortals to visit.

The Pole of Lightning is largely a way to quickly and efficiently transport motes of Primordial essence through his body. In the Pole of Lightning, churning dynamos along the walls rotate in opposing stacked rings, each adorned with spires that conduct the constant world-searing arcs to the appropriate circuits to fuel the Great Maker’s neuroelectric grid. Lightning does not strike everywhere at once, but the omnipresent risk of sudden vaporization keeps away most intruders. It's really quite remarkable, but there are populations of elementally mutated humans who do live here, relying largely on inhuman dexterity & reflexes to avoid being fried as they travel between shielded relay vaults.

The Pole of Steam is responsible for maintaining the pressure and energy that fuels the pneumatic components scattered throughout the Pole of Metal. It's roughly a quarter filled with high-pressure water kept boiling by lightning arcs flashing through their depths. Anything not instantly flash-fried by the scalding sea must further contend with city-smashing pressure and typhoon whirlpools of pneumatic currents. The steam atop this sea is only marginally less pressurized and scalding, but still more than capable of crushing and cooking anyone caught in it. Despite its inhospitability, the Pole of Steam is also the "breadbasket" of Autochthonia; tethered to the walls throughout the Pole are sauna-like archipelagos of cooling facilities, which use blue jade refrigeration rods to extract drinkable water, some of which is mixed with poisonous chemicals and predigested by synthetic biocrystalline coral elementals to produce nutrient slurry. Humanity wouldn't survive inside of Autochthonia if it weren't for the Pole of Steam producing the water and basic sustenance that is transported by veins throughout the Pole of Metal.