Ashen Wastes

Ashen Wastes, the ever expanding volcanic desert that some say threatens to consume the world. As far as the world knows nobody has ever managed to travel to the center of the Ashen Wastes, but the party after managing it themselves know that The Owl and Spear have also managed the journey. Due to this the people of the world do not know what causes this destructive force, there are many theories though, that Hephaestus created some incredible device and made a mistake, that Typhon is under the wastes there, that Tartarus itself is emerging into the world.
The party travelled to the center, to find the source of the destruction in order to use it to remove Koilos from Adrasteia. Whilst travelling through the wastes even with an experienced Ash Guard to lead the way, the party struggled hard and began to doubt whether they would be able to make it. They came across the Blue Dragon Sakrotas an enemy of Nilus, burning pits, terrible storm spirits and efreeti. Journeying on their own seemed a daunting task whilst fighting heat exhaustion. Cyaro and Adrasteia both died during the journey to the centre. Cyaro to a pyroclastic flow that coursed across the desert and Adrasteia was claimed by heat exhaustion on the last stretch of the journey, using the last of Leoven's diamonds.
At the center of the Wastes they found the city once ruled over by the Ambrogio family, and the brood of Vampire Spawn that they had left behind in death, still lead by the eldest of them Morvain. They responded well to the presence of Ghost aiding them in the final parts of their journey to the center of the Wastes.
At the center they found the remains of a Great Forge of Hephaestus.