» Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:13 am
The valley between Riften and Windhelm (more precisely, north of Darkwater crossing) has lot of thermal pools. That depression is basically the caldera of an old sleeping volcano. The bradisism phenomena that have damaged the east road from Riften to Windhelm actually makes me think that the underlying volcano is far from being inactive and the recent (on a geological scale) events at red mountains may have repercussions in that area too.
Basically, if that volcano awakes, Windhelm is gone for good and east Skyrim will be engulfed in a cloud of ashes as Vvanderfell was.