The Dhahabi Chasm

**The Dhahabi Chasm** (Arabic: الهاوية الذهبية lit. Golden Abyss; Persian: پرتگاه طلایی) also known as **Al Qabr**  **Aldh**(القبر الذهبي)**ahabiu**, is an astronomically large and perilous chasm located in the **Qahil Mountains** in(Arabic: الجبال القاحلة・Persian: کوه های خشک) northern Decrescens, Iskandarīyah Caliphate, located just 50 kilometers off the border of the Grand Duchy of Zamorozitskiy. The chasm consists of a large crater followed by numerous rows of layered jagged spiraling rims with irregular heights, with said heights as low as as 100 meters and as high as 350 meters. The location serves a major role at the end of **Chapter IV: The Iskandarīyah Caliphate**.

## **Background**

Around 3,000 years ago, nearly a century post the construction of the ornate, yet modest and pristine cities of **Al Zakhrafat** and **Muzakhraf** for the previous Dendro Archon, Buer, an unknown disease, simply known as the "Calamity," had ravaged the likeliness of Buer, causing him to become rampant and lose a totality of his senses, becoming incapable of differentiating between allies, common-folk, and hostile foes. Eventually, Buer would not only declare war against his own people, but also against the Geo Archon, Purson, leaving him no choice but to take action against Buer, sparking the start of the First Sino-Anglo War. Despite numerous attempts of hesitation, Purson had no other available choice but to summon an asteroid of pure geo-essence... An asteroid that was seemingly almost 9 km in diameter... At nearly dawn, the asteroid struck the center of Al Zakhrafat, destroying the city in its entirety and the surrounding area for seemingly an infinite distance.

The crater resulting from the impact was so astronomically large that it decimated nearly half of the nearby city of Muzakhraf, 150 kilometers towards the southeast, and was yet 50 kilometers short of reaching the modern-day Iskan-Zamoron border across the Qahil Mountains. Buer, was no more, yet... The impact left after his dissolution was not one that anyone could have foretold... What was originally wished to be a burst of dendro energy that flourished the surrounding area, became what was in reality an *"ungodly and irrevocable nightmare..."* From the incandescent epicenter of the crater, a colossal gush of wind, sand, and rock, had exploded, which had not only sent aerial projectiles of molten rock and sand throughout the nearby vicinity, but had also summoned a colossal, thundering, and spiraling *"crossbreed of a haboob(sandstorm) and a cyclone..."* A haboob with a 3.65 k(2.27 mile)m wide funnel and eye, a 52 km(32.31 mile) wide eyewall, and 'rain-bands' spiraling and stretching out over 1,530 k(950 miles)ms, covering nearly the entirety of Decrescens and the surrounding provinces...

After 3,000 years of perilous sandstorms eternally eroding the affected vicinity, and stripping the possibility of life ever returning, there has yet to be a solution provided to solve such a tribulation... Yet foretold by the common-folk of Muzakhraf, an outlander will soon hear their prayers and relieve their eternal sufferings...

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> > Ah... The sole constructive theorization of a possible ouroboros of corpses underneath the smoldering yet softening sand makes me utterly aroused~ Yet the sand here feels... As if its giving off an essence of rejuvenation underneath my bare soles... Perhaps, it's an unnoticed result of Buer's death...
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> **Trivia**
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> * As a result of the Second Archon War, the Dhahabi Chasm and the surrounding areas are the sole passageways between the Iskandarīyah Caliphate and the Grand Duchy of Zamorozitskiy.
> * It is unknown why the Dhahabi Chasm is referred to as a 'chasm' despite the location being a crater.
> 	+ There is a possibility however that the area inhabited by the cyclone in the epicenter of the crater was previously a fissure prior to the cyclone's formation.
> 	+ However, due to the eternal erosion of the crater, it is speculated that the area where the fissure is theorized to be has been covered up by sand and rocks.
> * According to Sāng Jīnglǐ, the sand within the vicinity of the Dhahabi Chasm is not only capable of making a person feel more lively and rejuvenated, but it can also temporarily heal wounds.
> 	+ This was proven to be factual by Sankramit Peedit as he brought a wounded mouse to the chasm to see what would happen. This resulted in the wounds and gashes present on the mouse to fade away, yet, later reoccurred once Sankramit and the mouse had left the vicinity.
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> 1. ↑ What was once a beautiful city with an impeccable stature, tailored to the likes of the Dendro Archon, Buer, has now succumbed to the wrath that had been gifted by the eternal cyclone that now stands in the way of life ever re-occuring in the city again...
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