The Scar
"Son, let me tell you about The Scar." The old man gave Garett a tired smile, an old smile that spoke of decades of experience. "Let me tell you what it is—and why you should never go there.""The Scar" was the name given to the massive, kilometer's long impact left behind by the meteroid that sealed the end of The Battle of Unspoken Grief and the Epoch of War. It wasn't until the survivors of the Epoch of Snow emerged from their caves that they grasped the totality of the situation. There was one group of curious explorers who emerged from the underground around 20 years after the impact and discovered that the bottom of the crater was still molten—a massive lake of fire and lava that was as vast as an inland sea. Homlak, a shock quartz-like material, was found on the walls of the bowl during that expedition, but it wasn't until the lava fully cooled and miners dared to dig downwards that they found that the bottom of the bowl was nearly 75% Homlak.
Geography
The Scar is exactly what it sounds like: a massive gouge in the land several kilometers in width and several more kilometers in length. What was once a lush place is now an arid desert populated with massive spikes of basalt that pokes through the tan sand that has been bleached by the unrelenting sun.
Despite the static-ness of the location, it always seems to be constantly changing. The hostile nature of the area is often reinforced by frequent sandstorms that inevitably chased away or claimed any miners that tried to work in the mines.
There is no surface water in The Scar. Whatever water to be found in this wasteland can be found in the very bowels of the mines, were a 'natural' spring has managed to find its way through the compressed rock.
Ecosystem
No life can thrive here, except the rare instances of crystalline plant life that managed to pop up from the fragments that survived the impact.
Localized Phenomena
The Scar is often anthropomorphized into an area that hates all life and actively seeks to consume and derive sustinance from whatever life happens to stumble into its bounds. This is a superstition that is continuously supported by the fact that the perpetrator of the meteor impact, an Ëstmentari star elemental, never left the surface of the world and disappeared into the depths of the Scar. It is also supported by the fact that when one wandered into the Scar or tried to cross it, it felt like all the energy and will to keep going, to keep living, would slowly drain from them.
Sandstorms frequently kick up and often rage for weeks on end. Anyone caught out in them are garunteed to be lost forever. Purple- and blue-hued lightning flashes and thunder roars as the grains clash together and generate static electricity.
In the lowest levels of the southern abandoned mine, water pools on the smooth black floor. Innocent. Innocuous. But little did anyone know, this water was anything but. It wouldn't be truly understood until The Sorcerer Queen found it and began to play with it and used it to create the first of The Lofocûs.
Before the Sorcerer Queen, there were the miners who dared to try and mine in this hostile place. Some were stupid enough to try to drink the pooling water instead of going and getting some of the water they had brought with them. Records of what happened after that are kinda sketchy as all of those miners would end up dying and all that was left that could explain what happened were a couple of journals.
Natural Resources
- Homlak
- Regular Shock Quartz
- Sand
- Basalt rock
- The water from the spring at the bottom of the mine (though it's far from "natural").
Alternative Name(s)
The Desert of Death, Death Valley, Life Eater...
Type
Crater / Crater Lake / Caldera
Location under
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