The first thing Irwyn noted was the almost suffocatingly dry air. As if there was not a shred of moisture left in the atmosphere. The second was the sheer heat, which washed over his skin before he even fully entered through the archway. Irwyn did not burn nor feel hot, but he could still recognize that just the air itself was hot enough to boil most people. The source of that became soon apparent.What sprawled before them was much like Irwyn imagined the heart of a volcano would look like. Rivers of liquid fire covered the majority of the ground, then sprouted into hundreds of geysers across the massive chamber. Some exploded intermittently, others continuously. Even the heights they reached were not constant. In between them lay islands of white-hot metal, seemingly half melted from just the ambiance, yet barely holding onto their form. Some as small as stepping stones in between the flows, while others would comfortably fit a small festival. Not that footholds were the most relevant, given both Irwyn and Elizabeth were quite accustomed to flight and wouldn’t get burned by the lava.Maneuverability would likely not be an issue, at least - the walls were very far away and actually hidden behind layers of that white metal. Visibility could, though. While not blinding, the show of shifting eruptions was greatly distracting, not to mention the thick black smoke rising up in places. Irwyn could use All is seen to remove mundane obstruction from his line of sight, yet that came with explicitly filtering them, which could result in missing other things… and possibly accidentally taking an embarrassing dunk in pitched battle.“Why is there no announcement?” Elizabeth questioned beside him. Usually, their golem observer would have spoken as to what their objective was by that point. The interruption of that well-established pattern was disturbing.“We will likely have to explore then,” Irwyn guessed. “At the very least, a change (...)