Abyss

The Abyss is a bottomless crater that appeared on Gahla during or after the Scream. It haunts the air for hundreds of miles with the a constant rasp of air, stone, and ice being sucked into the void and ground into nothingness, or perhaps something worse. Above the pit, some stubborn frostbitten ayrlands pulled in by the tempest are cast ruthlessly into the pit. Most of their brethren fell long before, into the oceans or onto the ice, or caught and pulverized like half-chewed rotleaf between the jagged teeth of Devil's Crown - the mountain range that encircles the Abyss.
The nethereal energy of the abyss casts strange and grim aberrations across the land. Dark stones hover in the air, and hissing gaunts in ragged hooded cloaks roam the tundra in search of light-devouring gems. Only the desperate and deranged seek out this place, but just enough maniacs come wandering to cause each other trouble. If they escape at all, most folk leave the Abyss with fewer memories than they came with, and not always by accident. At Brokenbow, the last stop before southbound travelers must fend for themselves, they warn folk that the first thing you're like to forget is just how long you've been staring.
Legends say that the Abyss is the gate through which demons have entered the dreams of gahls. The Apostlery believes it can only be healed by a crusade to restore the Allfather Tree to life in the cradle gardens beyond the Veil, but the Drakkengard Pentarchy will allow no such encroachment, insisting that it is the responsibility of the humans who created the abyss to find a way to fix it - the test which people must pass before the species even considers approaching the Veil. The Gahlatean Cantory is somewhere in between, opposing a mass migration through the Veil, but challenging the dragons on their blanket blockade, acknowledging that the solution to closing the Abyss might only be possible with materials from beyond the northern mists.