Talk:VPBE/@comment-28018860-20170809054158/@comment-3974211-20170811120100

Ornn's lore surrounding The Howling Abyss makes me even more hyped for the possibility that the term does not refer to the canyon or, at least, not entirely or exclusively. I do not think it likely that the Watchers were simply thrown into a hole. I think it more likely that the Watchers were sent howling into The Abyss. The vast canyon, then, surrounds a rift or portal of some kind at the center, and the bridge is the only way across.

I'm not really sure how else a canyon could serve as a defensive construct. A wall could in theory keep things out, if they were afraid of water, but a canyon?