"No-one's entirely sure," Ariadne replied. "I've heard at least three different versions of it. One claims a mythical beast unlike any other stalks those lands and kills anyone who enters the Wastes, another claims it was the site of a battle on an unimaginable scale, somehow lost to history. The other claims it's somehow the remains of a dragon slain their millenia ago. It's not a place I've been tempted to visit, I know it seems daft for an Elf to be scared of any place."