GAZETTEER · THE SOUTHERN FLATS

The Cinderwell

A heat-vent fissure in a burn-break where a seam of old peat-and-resin under the chaparral has smouldered for years — warm to the hand, the air bad.

A crack in the rib-slope bleeds warm air and a faint orange glow from the slow underground burn below. Cinder-moths swarm the light; emberback beetles cluster in the warm dark inside. The Cinderwell is the only warm place in a cold desert night and will quietly kill a traveller who sleeps in it — which is the kind of joke the flats enjoy.

KIND

cave

CLIMATE

warm, bad air, fissure-lit

DANGER TIER

Tier III

MAP X

350

Connected

Cinder MothCREATURE · Cinder-moths swarm the Cinderwell's warm glow.EmberbackCREATURE · Emberback beetles nest in the Cinderwell's warm dark…The Black ScarPLACE · The Cinderwell and the Black Scar share the same fir…

Type Fields

kindcave

parent_place—

climatewarm, bad air, fissure-lit

danger_tier3

controlling_faction—

points_of_interestthe smouldering peat-seam, the cinder-moth swarm, the emberback nesting chamber

map_x350

map_z870

procgen_seed8215

All Relationships (3)

located_in

←Cinder Moth — Cinder-moths swarm the Cinderwell's warm glow.
←Emberback — Emberback beetles nest in the Cinderwell's warm dark chambers.

references

→The Black Scar — The Cinderwell and the Black Scar share the same fire-and-heat ecology — the smouldering seam feeds the kind of burn that made the Scar.

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