Dimcrater

Dimcrater is a mysterious crater located in the southernmost tip of Kyonin's Fierani Forest, well within the Tanglebriar, the domain of the nascent demon lord Treerazer. It was once known as Arabrecht, the manor home of the timeless and powerful Archmage Aelthian, prior to its disappearance during Aelthian's attempt to banish Treerazer in 2988 AR.

History

During the Age of Legend, Arabrecht was the handsome manor home of the Archmage Aelthian, one of the most powerful elven wizards who ever lived. When the government of Kyonin ordered the mass evacuation of all of Golarion's elves to Castrovel through the Sovyrian Stone in order to avoid the doom of Earthfall, Aelthian ignored their pleas, trusting in his own magical wards to protect him. His confidence was justified, as Arabrecht and Aelthian survived the cataclysm, and he continued his magical research for thousands of years thereafter, eventually even unlocking the secret of immortality.

Battle against Treerazer

See also: Aelthian

After centuries of the elves' war against Treerazer, the Calistrian witch Silisifex reached Arabrecht—by now deep within Treerazer's corrupted lands of Tanglebriar—in 2988 AR and pleaded with Aelthian for assistance. Silisifex brought news of the outside world that Aelthian lacked, and the Archmage—already annoyed at the fiend's audacity and having spent the decades studying him, Tanglebriar, and the Witchbole—agreed to help. He transformed Arabrecht's wards into weapons and crafted a spell of incredible power that would banish Treerazer and all of his minions at once.

Although many demons perished as the spell's energies were released, and Treerazer himself was deeply weakened, something went terribly wrong. Treerazer survived the attempt, and elves who attempted to contact Aelthian received no reply.

When they traveled to Arabrecht, all the elves found there was a grassy, concave clearing carved into the ground with no sign of the manor or the archmage. Floating above the center of the crater was a single anthracite ball that seemed to pull everything towards it. A low, whistling wind blew constantly inward toward the ball from all sides, as if the sphere were drawing in all matter towards it.

The site of Arabrecht became known as Dimcrater, and as of 4709 AR, little new information had been discovered about Arabrecht or the missing archmage in the last 3,000 years. Anyone who attempted to approach the site was never heard from again.

Recent history

As of 4709 AR, little new information had been discovered about Arabrecht or the missing archmage in the prior 3,000 years, and anyone who attempted to approach the site was never heard from again.

Planar tear

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Unbeknownst to the Universe's inhabitants, Aelthian's backfiring spell had not only destroyed Arabrecht and killed the wizard, but it had also ripped a planar tear in reality to the Void, in the opposite metaphysical direction as the Outer Rifts to which Aelthian had intended to banish Treerazer. The sphere at Dimcrater is the physical manifestation of this tear, which stabilized into a portal to the Void.

References

Paizo set part of the Spore War Pathfinder Adventure Path issue A Voice in the Blight at Dimcrater, including a map of the site.