It is. Rather far away still. It's just extremely huge and dominates the horizon. They fly on.

"I can't believe I'm finally gonna see it with my own eyes."

"I know right?!"

"You two are adorable. I vaguely wonder if this has touristic potential."

"Most people do not have layers upon layers of magic protecting them on a trek North and even approaching the storm is dangerous. Might change with sorcery, though."

"Yeah, I was somehow picturing more interdimensional tourists actually. Once we have portals up."

"Working on it."

"I'm not sure we actually want to keep the storm, though? I'm thinking it's not going to really be... passable... unless we disrupt it somehow."

"It might be... necessary for the balance of local life, despite being inconvenient? Is it really that impassible? We could try going around it, maybe?"

"It circles the planet and erm." He looks around at the several kilometres of desert around them. "Local life?"

"I was thinking aquatic life. But even deserts have life of its own, yeah."

"I know they do but, like, this is a magic storm that encircles the globe, someone put it there and it did not cause the large-scale catastrophes one would expect from this, it's probably not actually affecting anything. Other than scrying and passage."

"Fair enough. Are you even able to clear the entire thing?"

"I have no idea because its magical source or whatever is deep enough no one's really been able to get there! One assumes, anyway."

"And it is really impossible to go over it? Or underwater?"

"Water's just as stormy, and it goes up to where there's no more air."

"I was thinking on trying to go above the atmosphere and search for the center of the storm there. At least as a form of reconnaissance. What do you think we should do?"

"I'm not sure that'll work, either, the centre of the storm is likely a ring and closer to the surface than to the edge of the atmosphere, it's not too likely it'll be visible from there. I think going through it might be a better bet."

Nod. "Do you have any idea what sort of things were tried before?"

"Not really, since any metamancers who tried very much did not advertise this fact."

"No attempts by non-metamancers?"

"What would they try? It's not like you can stop magic by any other means."

"Fair enough."

"Does sorcery have a better answer? Perhaps an extra quintuple-duty super powerful weather protection ward?"

"Yeah. I am getting the sense that our wards are just better. And that is without cheating quantities of lifeforce. I believe we can devise something that lets us fly through that thing."

"I think I did half of the work while you two were distracted talking."