The Great Falls Canyon

The Great Falls Canyon   The Great Falls Canyon is located in the centre of western Lorthal, a vast gaping hole in the landmass, partially formed by erosion from time long ago, but some suspect that it was carved by some divine means, or a ruinous state left from the launching of one of the mythical Mage Cities of the Arcanum Era. Whatever theory is believed, the region itself 500-600ft deep into the earth, and its white and red stone walls and cliff-faces shimmer and change in colour, lined by years of erosion and levels. Many of the lakes and rivers that flow from the White Towers Peaks of the West, and the Perimidines run into it, and cascade as great waterfalls, filling the deepened centre of the Grand Canyon into a great glacial-water lake, depositing all the silt and sediments within. The grounds around the Canyon are enriched in soil, growing with a woodland, grassland and wetland regions - all across the edges of the Canyon, and around its centre, stands tall stone towers and mesas, some slowly eroding to the constant water streams that filter into the lakes.   The Canyon is also an access point into the Underdark - as those that have settled here before, have plundered and prospected the stones here, and found great ore veins of silver, gold, iron and metal across the region. Since then, it has been a profitable place for prospecting miners and quarries.