The Xōkòtǎ Gorge

**The Xōkòtǎ Gorge** (English: The Shocoeta Gorge  listen; Texarkanan Dialect: The Zoukòtè Gorge) also known as the **Spine of God**, is an astronomically large and elementally hazardous gorge located in **Shocoeta County**, **Sitka**, Texarkana, located roughly 88 kilometers off the border of Chikagōsa. The gorge possesses a length of over 245 kilometers (152 miles), and is rumored to potentially have a depth of over 11,150 ± 1,250 meters (36,581 ± 4,101 ft; 6.928 ± 0.776 mi), although this is nearly impossible to conclude as a result of the '**Blood River**' harboring the inners of the gorge at approximately 400 meters deep. As a result of the river, the gorge has the capability of reaching temperatures as low as -128.3 to -136.8 °C (-198.94 to -214.24 °F) despite being located in both one of the most humid and hottest regions in the **Statehood Republic of Texarkana**.

## **Background**

Over 200 years ago during the cataclysmic events of the First Archon War, the once dormant **Suzerain of the Abyssal Brines**, **Il Suzerain** Sephar, had unforeseeably erupted and emerged from his seemingly eternal neutrality since the horripilant climax of the Calamity of 3000 B.C. Sephar's sudden reemergence was not one of a blessing, yet, his reemergence was that of inauspiciousness. Sephar simply had a singular aspiration, a raison d'être... An aspiration of reclaiming the wetlands and lowlands of southern Texarkana, to instate reclamation of what was once the ocean's filched claims. Sephar had set out a conquest, yet was impeded once he had entered **Kisatchian Bay**.

**The Kaiser**, Furcalor and whom was at the era, the **Heir to the Yzaguirrian Throne**, Paymon, had dispatched numerous troops and navy-men to Sephar's speculated landing point, which the two had precisely calculated. The combination of the **Kisatchian Army** and the **Xīn Qiūan Self-Defense Force** (**XQSDF**), to the surprise of the two archons, had successfully impeded Sephar for nearly 17 hours, yet the barricade the self-defense forces had made inevitably failed. Sephar continued his terror into **Lake Thyeobodeaux**, and as a result, destroyed numerous bridges, severing the arteries of south Kisatchie's escape routes and trading routes. By the 19th hour of Sephar's terror, he was impeded at the heart of Lake Thyeobodeaux, where he was confronted by the two gods, Furcalor and Paymon. Unknown to the two archons, the Kisatchian Army had regrouped on the **Thyeobodeaux Bridge**, along with numerous combatant tanks and helicopters. The Kisatchian Army began to bombard Sephar's exposed heads with tank shells, missiles, and bullets, a fait accompli the army was unaware of... Sephar had quickly become enraged with the insignificant bullets and missiles attacking his scales. In response, Sephar responded to this act by summoning a 300 meter (984 feet) tsunami towards the defending army. Within only mere seconds after its emergence, the tsunami had inhumanely severed the Thyeobodeaux Bridge in two, and continued its perilous path towards the city of **New Thyeobodeaux**. Furcalor had quickly taken notice of the tsunami and took on his archon form, and proceeded to hastily hover towards the rushing wave. Furcalor had summoned an astronomically sized meteoroid and launched it towards the tsunami's direction with sheer force. The meteroid had not only decimated the tsunami, but had also severed Sephar's middle head, resulting in Sephar summoning a 'turquoise-hydro shield,' and diving underneath the Thyeobodeaux Lake. Sephar had journeyed up to the most northern point of the lake, where he would seemingly "beach" himself, yet had also made landfall on mainland Kisatchie. The two archons proceeded to chase after Sephar, where he would make his way towards Lake Shocoeta in Shochoeta County, Sitka.

After nearly an hour of chasing Sephar and his path of terror, Paymon had become infuriated with the prolonged war between the nation and Sephar, and had summoned bloodborne-cryo nails, and launched them at Sephar's tail, and lower body, inevitably stunning the large sea serpent. After examining Sephar's body twitching and gushing with blood, Paymon had finally unleashed the Yume no Akaibara no Hitotachi with 'stage 3' Chakra dell'Eterno Onnipotente Shōgun... The unleashing of the Yume no Akaibara no Hitotachi was reported to have bared such a might that the luminance of the impacted slash was even visible from the western coast of **Alkebulan**, seemingly brightening up the night sky as if the sun had made its presence known over the horizon. The slash from such an omnipotent act of offense was so powerful that it had not only granulated Sephar's corpse, but had also formed a rift of such magnitude that it seemed as if it had stretched beyond the horizon... The turquoise-hydro energy that had emitted from Sephar's death had crossbred with the bloodborne energy from the Yume no Akaibara no Hitotachi, and birthed a hazardous river roughly 400 meters within the rift... As the river continued more into the widening rift, the remains of Sephar could be viewed in their state of disarray, the skeleton of what was once an archon, now lies in the curious observatory sights of those who wish to mock pity at such a failed archon...

## **Trivia**

* As a result of how deep the gorge is rumored to be, the gorge is speculated to be as deep as the Hadopelagic Zone.

1. ↑ Whom was one of the two final Turquoise-Hydro archons that exist, **Sephar** was a three-headed white and rose colored sea serpent who reigned alongside Vepar.
2. ↑ A 40 kilometer (25 mile) bridge connecting **New Thyeobodeaux** with mainland Kisatchie through the Thyeobodeaux Bridge.