Thoren slowly realized that he was standing at the center of a vast crater where the earth had completely collapsed inward.
The entire region looked as though something catastrophic had struck the land and torn it open.
But the strange landscape was not the most unsettling part.
Gravity behaved strangely here.
Small stones occasionally lifted from the ground as if pulled upward by an unseen force.
They floated for a brief moment before abruptly drifting sideways and crashing against nearby rocks.
Even the air itself felt unnaturally heavy, pressing down on his body like an invisible weight.
Above the massive crater, the sky appeared fractured.
It looked like shattered glass stretched across the heavens.
Jagged cracks spread across the sky, and through those cracks faint streaks of dim starlight leaked into the world below.
The entire scene felt surreal.
"Where am I?" Thoren whispered hoarsely.
His voice sounded dry and strained.
