A place struck by Camelia’s madness and spellcraft, according to the Scripture and the other Immortals’ accounts. Dream and reality intermingle here, and it is off-limits, with the punishment of entry being banishment or worse.

The Grotto reaches far from the region’s centre, but fades as it does. The residents on the outskirts of Etiel, ever hardy, contend with the cold and the phenomena the Grotto produces.