Cera Crater

The Cera Crater is a large and deep eroded hole near the center of Chaos Island, giving the island its name. It writhes with Cera Fluid, a waxy substance best described as liquid chaos magic. It continuously tries to grow outward to consume all of Discordia but is contained by magical barrier.

*The Cera Crater is based on Cat's Place and the Mother of all Messes from The Cat in the Hat Movie and is loosely based on the Lich's Well of Power from Pendleton Ward's "Adventure Time."*

## Description

The Cera Crater was formed by meteor crashing into Discordia. The toxic purple/pink Cera Fluid dissolved deep into the planet, nearly into its core. The fluid eroded and stained the stone and bedrock of the hole a bright yellow tan. Alien purple grass grows atop the messy, shattered cliff faces. The hole that was created was not clean, numerous tall, rocky pillars and islands rise from the bottom of the pit. The yellow cliff walls are constantly producing and excreting an endless amount of Cera Fluid, corrupting and animating the environment. Large sections of the crater are covered in a purple ocean, the water being saturated with the pink/purple Cera Fluid. Along with purple grass, the crater has a unique alien biosphere within its protective bubble, home to countless alien flora and fauna including multicolored furry trees and the man-eating Cera Serpents.

## History

* Halloweentown
* Discordia
* Oobi's Adventures

### Formation

#### Cera Comet

A concentration of magic formed within the Halloweentown dimension and collected itself around a comet. Around 300 million years before the Dark Ages, that comet struck the planet Discordia and buried itself deep into the ground, creating the Cera Crater. Immediately, the Cera Fluid within the comet corrupted the land and began to erode and spread outwards.

#### The Longma

As the crater expanded, it intercepted a den of Longma, the Cera Fluid altering their minds and DNA, making them intelligent and granting them limited reality warping abilities. With their new abilities, they were able to slow the spread of the expansion enough that it would no longer be an issue for them.

#### Magical Corruption

Not bound by a magic shield like its future counterpart, the Cera Crater expanded underground and leaked its Cera Fluid across the island, quickly evolving and saturating the realm with magic.

### Chaoskampf

#### Nexus Discord's Accident

A young Discord, having learned of a prophecy written by Merlin years prior, runs through a thick jungle in fear. The thick, magical trees and vines obstruct his vision and he falls into the Cera Crater. There, the Cera Fluid invades and distorts his body, and he eventually drowns and supposedly dies there. Almost 200 years later, Discord's body is found by Longma soldiers and he's brought in for observation. The Cera Fluid in the crater warped and preserved Discord's body, keeping him alive, and giving him dangerous levels of reality warping powers.

#### Big Crunch

During the climax of the Chaoskampf, Merlin activated a machine to completely destroy the Nexus Universe and reset reality. The Cera Crater was deleted with the rest of Halloweentown.

### Formation

#### Cera Comet

Every thousand years, Discordia is struck with a comet of pure Chaos Magic. The first known comet destroyed two of the planets moons, creating Discordia's rings in the process. The second one however, crashed into the planet on the soon to be named Chaos Island. The raw magical radiation immediately changed and distorted the nature of the crash site, creating a miniature alien biome inside the ever-growing hole being created.

#### The Barrier

As the crater expanded, it intercepted the Longma, the chaos magic within the Cera Fluid, warping and evolving the simple minded hybrids into magical and intelligent creatures able to build a community. To prevent the Cera Crater from spreading, the Longma used their new found power to encapsulate the sub-realm in a magical barrier. Inside the barrier, the toxic, corrosive nature of Cera Crater grew stronger within.

### Magical Corruption

#### Massacre of the Longma

Discord, now the Serpopard Spirit of Disharmony, is reborn and travels from his home planet Etheria to Discordia to resume his rule. Once in control, Discord saught to rebuild his army. He took as many Longma as he could and forced them deep into the Cera Crater, forcing them to drown in the liquid Chaos Magic. Most of the Longma did not survive, their bodies continuing to rot in the crater's heart, while a small group of them, all who escaped Discord, ran into hiding. Eight Longma survived, and as the Cera Fluid warped their bodies, Discord combined his Serpopard DNA into theirs, creating the first Draconequus and the start of the Order of Chaos.

*[To Be Expanded]*

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## Trivia

* The structure of the Cera Crater is based off of "Cat's Place" from *The Cat in the Hat Movie*
* A location similar to the Cera Crater can be found on Earth it is the site of the Green Catalyst Comet's collision
	+ It is known in the future as the Lich's Lair with his Well of Power located within it