Location from Steel Ball Run by Hirohiko Araki
Supernatural dead zones in the American desert where the Saint's Corpse warps reality — where Stand abilities awaken, compasses spin, and the boundary between the living and the impossible breaks down.
The Devil's Palms are not fixed locations — they move, slowly, across the American desert like supernatural weather systems. They appear where the Saint's Corpse parts are buried or surfacing, and their influence creates zones where the normal rules of reality soften. Stand abilities awaken here. People who enter without sufficient resolve simply die — the desert swallows them. The first racers to encounter a Devil's Palm thought it was a mirage, then a hallucination, then a death trap. Some survived and emerged with powers they didn't understand. The government knows about the Devil's Palms — Valentine's entire operation is built on tracking their movements and getting to the corpse parts first. For Johnny, the Devil's Palm is where everything changes. He enters it desperate and crippled and exits it with the first stirrings of Tusk and the first corpse part. The Palm doesn't care about worthiness. It cares about will.
Patches of desert that look wrong before you understand why. The sand shifts in patterns that don't match the wind. Plants grow in spirals. Animal bones litter the ground in geometric arrangements. The air shimmers with heat that isn't entirely thermal. Compasses spin uselessly. Horses refuse to enter. Those who stumble in find the landscape rearranging around them — paths close, distances distort, and the corpse parts call to those with sufficient willpower from beneath the sand.
Also known as: The Devil's Palm, Devil's Palms