Surface

The **Surface** is the term used to refer to the surface of the Vale after The Return of the Cataclysm. For a millennium, the Surface was covered in a thick layer of mist, but unknowing to the residents of the Living Vale (aka everybody), dragon species were still thriving down below. After 1000 years, dragons had evolved into completely new species. After many thousands of years of inhospitability, the mist dissipated for a while and the wizards grabbed the chance, descending using their airships and reinhabiting the forgotten land. Many new dragons and new elements were rediscovered and redocumented by these brave wizards.

## Landscape

The landscape of the Surface is divided into 5 parts, the Park, the Briar Flats, the Silverfalls Gorge, the Glimmerverse and the Zephyrlands, each of them housing brand-new mysterious species of dragons.

### Briar Flats

The Briar Flats is a land filled with dead plants and dirt. It is incredibly hot there and few dragon species can survive. Dash Dragons have observed jumping from islands of the Floating Isles and running around the Briar Flats. Certain Surface Dragons change colors when entering the Briar Flats thanks to magic that surrounds the Flats.

### Silverfalls Gorge

The Silverfalls Gorge is a massive canyon that has a river running through it. It is shrouded in perpetual ice and snow except for the river, which is the only source of liquid water in the Gorge. Frozen and Water hybrids mostly inhabit the land but creatures such as the Knarr Dragon and Kraken Dragon can be seen crossing the river to reach the sea.

### Gimmerverse

A desert covered in pink sand and unique plants that taste like candy. It is where the Scar of the World used to be located before it healed. It is covered in a mystical aura that is said to be responsible for the creation of Enchanted Dragons, dragons with different colorations from their original variants that can sometimes be bred in the Surface. This aura is believed to cause disturbances in the DNA of parent dragons, therefore making their offspring demonstrate differently-pigmented skin. These dragons are viewed as superior by other dragons and as extremely rare by collectors.

### Zephyrlands

A desert bordering the Glimmervese that is more "normal". It is covered in cacti and blazing winds that can supposedly rip wounds in the skin of living creatures. On the western end of the Zephyrlands are four, huge mountains where the permanent habitat of the North, West, East and South Dragons is. Even though these dragons have been sighted elsewhere, we know that each of these species has made their nests atop these peaks.

## The End of the Surface

Only three years after the return to the Surface, the Scar of the World reopened in the Glimmerverse and the mist returned to enshroud the Surface. The Scar expanded and completely destroyed these aforementioned lands. The mist was now enriched in poison, which made all these unique new dragon species go extinct and all the wizards that stayed there instead of returning die. Ever since, the magical mist has altered the memory of all wizards to forget the lands that it enshrouds and all the marvelous discoveries that were made there.