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Was the Sharom the DO's prison?

No. Demandred's analysis (LOC Prologue, The First Message, 15) implies that the DO is imprisoned OUTSIDE the world/Pattern, in some sort of "Dungeon Dimension." (Read Pratchett for connotation.) The Bore is a kind of thinning of the universe, a weakness in the space-time continuum, by which the DO can reach out of the Dungeon Dimension to affect/enter the Real World. From the RJ Online Q and A session on Compuserve (19 October, 1994), RJ says, "The sharom and the collam dam are a university/research center." So, the Sharom was some sort of HEP (High-Energy Power) research facility that Meiren and Beidomon used to create the Bore.