The Ridiculous Complaints thread

Right, sorry to wind this back a bit.

Fortunately, Guardians Reborn is blessed with geologists and we have formulated a hypothesis.

The answer is as follows:

The mountains of western Correllia were formed by volcanic activity.

As such, this isolated range is riddled with the caldera and vents of extinct volcanoes.

This diagram shows the situation:


The stronghold sits on a secondary vent of a larger volcanic peak; as such, channels exist within the rock. The volcanic crater has now been colonized by a cirque glacier and meltwater from this now flows back down the lava shaft into the vent system. The primary vent is now plugged with a non-porous high-silica rhyolite and so the water is channelled into the secondary vents, including the substantial formation upon which the stronghold is situated.

As the source of the water is at a higher elevation than the secondary vent, a Artesian well effect causes water to flow up the vent and to the surface.

As we can see the height differential is significant.

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