Molten Heath

Where many surviving dragons fled after the Dragon Wars.

Far to the northeast of the Daqan Baronies, the sturdy rock that shields Mennara's raging heart grows thin. Great gouts of tempestuous fire and molten stone erupt from the ground. Sharp-toothed obsidian crags, black rock ridges, and smoldering rivers of lava radiate out from the center of the heath, but surrounding it is some of the most picturesque lands in all of Mennara. Crystal-clear streams, wildflower-dotted plains, and mighty evergreens shelter this primordial landscape, where rich volcanic soil and mountain snowmelt combine to foster a lush and verdant paradise. This impossible land of life and death is known to mortals as the Molten Heath.

THE DOMAIN OF DRAGONS
At the center of Molten Heath lies its Heart, an isolated collection of volcanoes. Lava rivers flow from their flanks, inundating the surrounding lands in a constantly changing morass of molten and cooling rock. A maze of lava flows and molten streams cuts through a nightmare landscape of razoredged obsidian outcroppings and drifting dunes of rock ash. Higher up, among the volcanoes’ calderas, the dragons make their roosts. Younger drakes live in the cooling lava tubes and caves along the flanks of the mountains, while the elder wyrms haunt the burning craters at the very summits.

The Heart and its immediate vicinity is hellish landscape of fire and smoke that only a dragon could withstand. The constant eruptions unleash vast lava flows that never truly cool. Instead, they fill in canyons and gorges with vast lakes of searing liquid stone. Dragons wing across the surface, hunting the
salamanders and perching upon the charred islands to rest and converse with others of their kind.