Thread:Gorzill/@comment-4001163-20141214171944/@comment-4960835-20150506192614

@Glynn/Gorzill: The Midnight Ridge and the dark Crater really look the same as the Field, so there is probaly a wide magma stream flowing from the dark Crater (it's point of origin) underneath the Midnight Ridge to the Fields of Desolation. XD

The Dark Crater is even more geothermally active than the Field or even the dormant volcano the Cadets visited before, because it is a massive supervolcano that erupted upon itself long ago, leaving only a scorched-black surface that is basically an solid tar pit with much liquified hotspots and extreme levels of geothermic activity as it is basically costantly in eruption. In the inner part of the crater, the ground will even tend to crack open and spill forth magma wherever the cadets walk. Not to speak of the streams and lakes of lava that flow criss-cross trough the crater, the noxious fumes rising from the tar pits and the Darkling-created chocking, thick black haze that seriously tends to reduce the cadet's range of sight, causing the accute danger of having the cadets stumble into a tar pit or lave lake without them even realizing until it's too late. For Blaize, the Dark Crater is probably a bit too much of a good thing, and for the other cadets, probably the most dangerous place they will ever visit during their training as Koatria.

Unlike either the Field of Desolation or the Dark Crater, the Midnight Ridge is high enough to not involve lava everywhere, but the magma still flows close enough beneath it's peaks to prevent any ice from forming, leaving the rocky ground with it's typical black, extremely smooth, if not slippery and infamously steep surface.