A long while ago I poked fun at this one off comment by Zhiqiong.
As it turned out it was true to an extent. Half of the story from the Perilous Trail was that there's something alive down in the Chasm Bed that feeds on the mind. It creates hallucinations and drives people insane. But the changing tunnels seem to relate to the Fantastic Compass which sealed the Abyss forces by creating a warp in spacetime.
We know the Inverted City has no affect on the Abyss. Even when they amplified it none of the Abyss enemies we had to fight were suffering anything like we saw in Dainsleif and the other Khaenri'ahns. It could have been the SkyNail that Boyang was talking about. But then once they were sealed off in the Fantastic Compass they should have recovered and they didn't so what else could have been affecting them?
It might really be that during the Archon War Morax had to kill one or even many Archons at the Chasm. We know he had one of the highest body counts and that Archons can never die so even if they were obliterated there'd be something remaining that could be just as powerful if only stuck in the Chasm. For example Osial was still plenty powerful after Childe summoned him with the Sigils of Permission. Also there's Yae and also also there's the fact that Morax used the yaksha to continue fighting the corruption of the land by these dead Archons. Besides Celestia itself if anything was going to be able to affect the Abyss it would have to be on the level of Archons.
Now the scary part about this is that Zhiqiong noticed it. In Perilous Trail we're led to believe that the hallucinations only took place in the Chasm Bed that was sealed with the Fantastic Compass. And that seal was fine up until Yelan dropped the SkyNail on it and then Bosacius subconsciously called out to a group with similar elemental affinities to the Five Yaksha. So unless Zhiqiong somehow wandered into that and then back out it would mean the effects of the Fantastic Compass were further reaching than just where we fell.
If there are other pockets of warped spacetime the Chasm is still going to be very dangerous especially as mining operations come back online. Does that mean we could see a future event dealing with that?
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