Submission (#1454) Approved

The cracked dusty wastelands of Zevija are home to Jean-Marie.  Having been raised, and currently residing in the Hadaven, the kittom has few opportunities to wander outside the city.  Even so, in his short life, the opportunity to slip out and away – either with caretakers or alone – has risen in multiple occasions.  As such, he has enjoyed the surprisingly beautiful vistas this cracked inhospitable landscape has to offer.  His favorite are the oftentimes deadly fumaroles that rise, akin to small volcanoes in form, and dot the land.  While enjoying such a vista has risks, Jean-Marie has managed to walk among the heated vents spewing dust and gas without enduring any harm.  For this, though, he required the careful guiding hand of more than a handful of locals and a very knowledgeable guide who knew the quickest and safest way to traverse past parched earth and yawning rents to view such a wonder from a safe distance.

Another wonder he enjoys of Zevija are the crystal caverns deep underground.  Providing a respite from the dry heat, and also its own set of risks and wonders, the crystal caverns are the joy and pride of the land, and the destination for many tourists.  The ones Jean-Marie have seen are worked – miners or carvers have chipped away at their walls creating the sensation of walking into a brilliant cyan geode.  The walls are faceted like crystals, and might have looked natural were it not for their size – great halls carved like palace rooms upon the underground cavers to a glossy finish, carved so skillfully that in places, he could see his own watery reflection as he gazed upon the carved crystals.  To see such beauty under the rough landscape of Zevija is unexpected – to gaze upon the rooms of caverns dripping with crystals both raw and worked, carved and chipped or not, gives the land an air of the magical.