Wounded Hollow Icon and what it all MEANS
Title, I don't make posts here much but I figured I'd share my brain worms because im tired and waiting for the 27th is killing me.
The map icons for wilds were posted by u/ScubaRec0n but shoutouts to cola in the MH modding discord who i believe datamined them. Here is the icon for the Wounded Hollow.
Originally I thought this was representative of the Dragon Torch, and it probably is, but ever since u/Sploochie_ was able to take pictures of the Iceshard Cliffs LOD using freecam, I thought it looked a lot like the city of Wyveria as seen from above.
Presumably that hole is where the Wounded Hollow is Located?
Now we know through dialogue and visuals that the Iceshard Cliffs (called ICEWALL in the data) is actually the outer walls of the city of Wyveria now fallen to ruin and blizzards (and ice leviathans apparently) So I think our Wounded Hollow Icon is actually the city itself, and the inner ring is where the hollow is located.
But what about those three arms? We don't see those around the Iceshard Cliffs!
I believe those represent the Windward Plains, Oilwell Basin, and Scarlet Forest, specifically, the Artian machines that power their inclemency.
The most obvious of these machines is the Everforge in Azuz, it's set up during the story that the people there manage to "light it up" and get the Firespring rolling themselves. It's also the Icon for the Oilwell Basin
The second most obvious is that whorl-like rock formation in the Windward Plains, where Rey Dau makes it's nest, and what is clearly framed as the source of the Sandtide's lightning. It's also the Icon for the Windward Plains
But what about Scarlet Forest? We don't have any idea what the source of the Downpour is, but the All-Harken clearly says that the Downpour is not of natural origin and was created to wash away toxin build up in the Fallow period.
I believe the machine that powers it are these giant weird artificial "Dome Trees" we saw in the background of the map, which are coincidentally the Icon for the Scarlet Forest as well.
All the icons are actually the things the Artians built to power the Inclemency periods, and the Wounded Hollow represents all of the maps in their entirety since the Dragon Torch is the source of it all. The battery to end all batteries
Also i didn't talk much about the Iceshard because I actually don't know what the inclemency for the map is because the All-Harken mentions artificial gravity but it could also just be a blizzard, but the map icon just represents the giant walls around Wyveria as far as I can tell? Also the data for weather periods has three left in the files, Blizzard, Energy, and Junction, and it doesn't state which is meant for which so I have no idea. Could be blizzard most likely.
Sound off in the comments if you have any ideas,