Natick and the Glowing Sea
One of the most desolate stretches of the Commonwealth, the Glowing Sea sits south of the township of Natick, covered in centuries worth of radioactive fallout, pollution, and torn apart by radioactive storms. The nuclear detonation at the Crater of Atom has devastated much of the state, making it uninhabitable to all but the Children of Atom. Precious facilities can be found in the Glowing Sea, but require special gear and preparation outside the ability of most Commonwealth denizens. The town of Natick sitting on the northern edge of the sea still has living fauna and flora, but the mutants pouring out of the sea and geological upheavals have driven the denizens off.
THE GLOWING SEA
Originally the communities southwest of Boston Proper, the area southwest of the end of the southern freeway connected to Mass Pike Interchange was ground zero for a massive nuclear detonation during the Great War. Not technically a "sea", the territory is rather a large, isolated zone of heavily irradiated landscape. Most of the Glowing Sea consists of scorched earth spotted with radioactive ponds, charred trees, wrecked cars, and heaps of rubble. The few remaining buildings that weren't reduced to thinly-spread debris are half-buried by landslides and sinkholes. Rain clouds that pass over the Glowing Sea become irradiated, spreading radiation to other parts of the Commonwealth wasteland in the form of rad storms. The sickly greenish-yellow glow emitting from the crater can be seen from far across the Commonwealth.
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Despite these dangers, the Glowing Sea does harbor life, including humans, as seen in the Crater of Atom.
CRATER OF ATOM
Found deep within the Glowing Sea, the cater was ground zero for the high-yield nuclear explosion southwest of Boston which devastated Massachusetts and created the Sea around it. The crater is now home to members of the Church of the Children of Atom, who treat the location as a holy site and seem inexplicably immune to its deadly radiation.