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"One of the main geographic features in Oblivia is a huge crevasse we call the Yawning Giant. And believe you me, if you fall into that thing, you are NOT coming out."
— Male BLADE at Oblivia Ingress BC

The Yawning Giant (Japanese: ジャイアントクラック, Jaianto Kurakku, Giant Crack) is an area in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It is located in western Oblivia. This vast chasm effectively has no bottom, and falling into it has the same effect as death, and Skells that fall in will also be destroyed. This effect does not occur when flying; skells will be stopped at an exact distance into the chasm, making it much safer to explore as long as the Flight Module is always in operation.

A small floating island in the centre of the Yawning Giant houses FN Site 304, a cave in the southeast contains the Demon's Pocket, a smaller cavity in the chasm wall contains an indigen nest, and the Tyrants Gotthard, the Intimidating and Hartmut, the Calamity are present above the chasm floor at all times.

The bottom of the chasm cannot be seen from above, and appears shrouded in thicker layers of air just below the bottom-most areas a flying Skell can reach. The walls of the chasm are dominated not only by rock, but by the same mysterious gigantic metal water pipes that appear interwoven into the rest of Oblivia's landscape.

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  • From a geological viewpoint, the existence of a vast dry desert chasm within a continent is not wholly unrealistic. The Yawning Giant is reminiscent of the Messinian salinity crisis which happened repeatedly to the Mediterranean Sea during the Miocene epoch approximately 5–6 million years ago. These events included the tectonic closure of the Strait of Gibraltar, and the already hot and arid regional climate gradually causing almost the entire basin's seawater to evaporate, lowering the water level by thousands of meters and leaving a thick layer of rock salt evaporites on the bottom. These low dry abyssal plains were much hotter and the air much thicker, and the environment is believed to have been inhospitable to any non-microbial forms of Earth life. The salinity crisis came to an end when the Strait of Gibraltar tectonically reopened, allowing the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to flood back into the basin in an event known as the Zanclean flood. However, the geological nature of Oblivia's Yawning Giant is left unexplained, as is most of the rest of Mira's geology.

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