the fissure

towards the western border of the Wastelands, a massive fissure long ago had opened in the earth. at the bottom of it is a surprisingly wide span of relatively flat land. some sixty feet wide at the widest point of it and close to a mile long, it serves as a protective barricade from winds but tends to flood. the gorge, called by the equines the Fissure, emits a strange smell like burning flesh, something that serves to keep most predators away from it for the instinctive terror of fire. a solitary path serves as the way in or out of it and so thin is it that only one equine can go up or down it at a time. in addition to that, parts of the path have crumbled away over centuries of hooves crossing over them and equines needs must leap over gaps to get up or down it. along the path lie the bodies of horses and other animals that have died over the years in this hellish place.