Over the days they spent waiting, Klauthsura delved ever deeper into her study of the artifact's "Planar Habitat Wandering" function.
Although the Mind Flayer still did not understand exactly how the artifact worked, she could now use psionics to temporarily project the information that the Hellforged Multiverse Wanderer displayed in Renato's mind, allowing them to analyze it together.
The psionic projection slowly unfolded across the whiteboard, gradually revealing a vast expanse of glaciers.
A gray-white sky stretched to the limits of sight. Thick snow and ice covered the ground, with the occasional exposed ridge of black rock jutting through like the spine of a frozen behemoth.
There was no trace of vegetation. Aside from rock and white snow, only the deep blue ice walls lent the place a hint of color. Alternating bands of light and dark blue marked their exposed faces, recording centuries of snow compressed layer upon layer.
"Based on the simulated experience provided by the artifact's imagery, combined with an assessment of your constitution, the temperature in this region is estimated to be between minus thirty-five and minus fifty-five degrees Celsius, with wind speeds of around twenty meters per second..."
As he listened to the female Dragonborn explain the environment, Renato recalled the "item" he had detected while using the artifact moments earlier.
It was a shed gray-white dragon scale, roughly a third the size of a palm, with slightly uneven, curled edges and a surface covered in growth lines.
According to Klauthsura's analysis, the scale should have belonged to a young White Dragon and had been shed no more than six months ago.
Finding traces of dragons in a food-scarce polar region no longer struck Renato as strange. As an "old hand" who had spent over two years in Ereel, he had grown accustomed to the