Canyons

The Canyons is a playable location featured in  Blood Omen 2, it is just outside of Meridian and is featured in Chapter 7: Wild Places.

Role
Vorador sent Kain to the Canyons in a bid to meet the Seer and uncover her knowledge of the Device in Chapter 7. The Canyons were a set of deep valleys leading "north" out of Meridian, as the title of the associated chapter suggests, they were considered a wilderness. The Canyons were mainly used by the travelling merchant NPC's (who presumably brought supplies to or from Meridian), during their travels they were frequently under threat from Smugglers (who apparently raided carts and stole supplies)

Kain found that a major bridge traversing the canyons had fallen (though whether this is due to Smugglers,Lesser Demons or natural causes is not elaborated upon) this meant Kain had follow the traders carts around the outside of the Canyons passing through several Sarafan gatehouses, unstable cavernous areas and through a Smuggler's Warehouse, eventually emerging in a Demon infested area littered with corpses of merchants and Sarafan troops.

Following a set of tracks to an unnamed industrial settlement, Kain found it barricaded but littered with corpses. Beyond the settlement he found several Sarafan buildings before finally finding the Seer's Cottage, gaining from her the Dark Gift Telekinesis and beingteleported to the Device.