In the Shattered Folds of the Crucible Expanse.
Achilles appeared in a region that was simultaneously breathtaking in its alien beauty and lethally dangerous to anyone lacking sufficient power to withstand the environmental hazards.
Storms of metallic objects swirled through the void in complex patterns that created ever-shifting mazes of deadly projectiles, and massive metallic meteors drifted on unpredictable trajectories that could crush unprepared beings against their impossibly dense surfaces.
The metals themselves possessed unusual properties as they had been transmuted through eons of exposure to concentrated Alchemical authority, and they gleamed with inner radiance that suggested they were more refined essence than simple matter.
Copper shone with verdant luminescence, silver blazed with lunar brilliance, and gold pulsed with solar intensity as these materials flowed through space in rivers of liquid metal that defied conventional physics.
