Helioblight
The Aeons have not quenched the crucible heat of this place, where that desperate attempt to reignite Anthelios was made so long ago.
A scorched wasteland of crumbling earthen cinders and incandescent pools of liquid gold, the shallow caldera of the Helioblight marks the location of the final attempt to restore the Land of the Dead's dying sun. Even after countless Aeons, the Fire Clay that makes up most of the region still retains the heat of a thousand suns.
The Helioblight is perhaps the most inhospitable terrain in the entire Land of the Dead. The extreme heat of the cinder-like Fire Clay creates equally extreme convection currents that turns the atmosphere into a tempest of searing air that makes even breathing a difficult challenge. The caldera's boundary is ringed by constant, violent storms created by the turbulent churning of hot winds mixing into colder, more static air.
The air is so hot here that any moisture will superheat instantly and unprotected flesh will cook like a spit of meat placed in a steel furnace. Cracks in the cinder clay issue forth invisible jets of superheated steam that will strip flesh from bone in seconds.
Solar Desert
Helios continues to bleed gold. Nothing else has worked. This morning we begin our next attempt.
In Aeons past, when the Land of the Dead's sun began to wane and bleed, it is said that a thousand attempts were made to reverse this slow decline. Three dozen Souls led by the accomplished Quirilion the Heliosmith set out on what would be the final attempt to restore the sun by simultaneously performing the most powerful Hexcraft ever discovered.
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