Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The First Warren — realm of the Eleint, where dragons were born and where the raw stuff of creation still churns in primordial chaos.
Starvald Demelain is the oldest warren — the First, from which all others were carved or born. It is the realm of the Eleint, the dragons, and it retains the raw, unformed quality of creation's first moment. The magical energies here are so potent and so chaotic that mortal visitors risk dissolution simply by existing within the warren's bounds. The Eleint who dwell here are not the dragons mortals encounter in the physical world — they are something older and more fundamental, beings of pure power whose conflicts shaped the structure of the other warrens. Gates to Starvald Demelain are among the most dangerous portals in existence, and those who open them rarely control what comes through.
A vast sky of impossible colors and churning storms of raw magical energy. The ground — where it exists — is volcanic glass and obsidian, constantly reshaping itself. Dragons wheel through storms that would annihilate mortal mages. The scale is wrong — everything is too large, distances too vast, the sky too close and too far simultaneously. Reality here is unfinished, as though creation was interrupted mid-sentence.
Also known as: Starvald Demelain, the First Warren, the Eleint Warren