The lands of Element since the cataclysm have been a scortching place. The vision of the area is blurry from the heat and the grounds in some of the more dangerous area's down south can become bright red and flow with hot lava.
The ground is littered with cracks. from the smallest inch to cracks miles wide with huge pillars of spiked black diamonds reaching out of the canyons. Most plant life refuses to grow but fungus is overjoyed with the area. New types have emerged in this nation. Huge mushrooms as black as coal exist the biggest one having the size of a large city eighty or so feet up. Under these "Hell Mushrooms" are huge spores of gass which stop the flow of chakra for a minimum of two weeks.
The animel life has changed dramatically. One of the most notable animals are flying grey jellyfish like creatures that survive off chakra eating other life forms chakra, They are also well known for eating anything made of metal.
The winds do not blow normally here in summer. Instead theres a powerfull air current pushing downwards to the hot ground. It only rains in the cold nights here. The rain is offten emboddied with the same spore clouds as the mushrooms, meening one drink of rain drops and a ninja can no longer use jutsu for perhaps months.
Huge pillars of black diamonds erupt from the ground everywhere. Being the only shelter foe miles around they are offten surrounded by beasts known as the Hydra, seemingly having evolved from left over DNA of the dragons. They appear very much like wingless dragons with many heads, their skin is color changing to its surroundings, they can see and sense chakra through lead. Unlike they're dragon relatives they have no intelegence and are impossible to tame.
The planes offer one river. A river so polluted with hell mushroom spores and poisonous insects death is almost certain for all who drink from the waters. The water does not head out to sea, but rather to a large lake where a huge red pillar has emerged in the centre. The pillar is actually a nest for insects known as "Hell Bees" They're poison is not fatal, but causes perminant total amnseisia leaving anyone stung a completely new person without any memory of the past whatsoever the poison can also however cause a persons chakra to become orange and leak out through their fingers giving them "Hell Hand Syndrome" where the persons hands perminantly glow oramge. The honey of these bees however can remedy any wound and serves as a antidote for the mushroom spores.
Little amounts of people come here. The days are scortching and the nights are frozen. The planes are black and red. The animals are lethal and starves. The plants can destroy the rest of your life. Wandering in the Element nation travel lands may be the last thing you ever do.