Abattoir

"An ancient temple turned into a slaughterhouse. A place where the town’s zoomorphic nature is particularly salient. A theme of nestedness: as the town had grown atop the bull of the earth and crushed it down, so has the gray-concrete Termitary, housing the workers, grown atop the Abattoir, humanizing it and taking away its magnetism."

- [from the game’s design documents]

The Abattoir (Бойни, Olonngo) is the womb from which the whole city was born, the heart of the Bull Project (the economic basis of the city) and the "Neolithic swelling on the edge", as the Bachelor puts it. The Foreman is the main link between the Abattoir and the Town.

Description
The Abattoir is the core of the Bull Eneterprise and the place where the bulls are slaughtered. It is said the Abattoir's transformation into a prosperous industrial facility that simultaneously remains a pagan temple where Steppe rites are performed is due to Oyun's efforts and working with Big Vlad.

The Abattoir can be accessed through one of three gates: the Gates of Labour, which are used by the workers; the Gates of Sorrow, through which slaughtered bulls are taken away by the railway track; and the Gorge, a corridor in the depths of the Abattoir, the route that Supremes take when they come from the Steppe to be celebrated. There's also a passage to the Abattoir from the Termitary. Entrances to the Abattoir are limited, and getting there is not easy. Butchers cover the gate with boulders and at the right time they roll them back. Opening and closing the gates is subject to complex laws established by the Foreman. Previously, it was run by Father Superior Tycheek, and it is run by his daughter. According to Aglaya Lilich it is impossible to enter into a slaughterhouse when it's off limits due to an overwhelming mental barrier.

On the day of the Inquisitor's arrival, at her command, all the gates are opened. However, the butchers and worms inside the Abattoir will be hostile to outsiders.

Local kids believe the Abattoir is inhabited by gods so old that beasts used to believe in them before humans even came to exist. Some townsfolks say the Abattoir so big because it covers the cavities of the unburied udurgh.