Unrest - is it a blood pool or a lava pool?
 

A friend of mine and I have been having a discussion (argument)

The pool of red stuff in the basement of the mansion in Unrest.

Is it blood (as I see it) or is it lava, as he sees it.

If it was lava it would do damage to you

Why does it have to be blood? It could be spaghetti sauce. Definitely not lava though.

Is there a link between that pool and the one in Crushbone inside the castle? Something for that Kraddok fellow to investigate perhaps

You grow in power young jedi..

+1 for me... I said the same thing ;)

Many foul magics are afoot in unrest, stripped all the inhabitants of their life force yet there corpse remains in a lesser animated form. Who's to say this foul magic didn't strip the lava of its power and create some different kind of non damaging lava?

It's blood and has to do with the priest making sacrifices. That's how I've always read it.

Lava or Blood
 

From my observations of Unrest, this boobytrap is in fact an enchantment placed on the basement to fool adventurers into avoiding the "lava". It is an illusion, thus it is lava but not real lava.

As you have forced the subject, I am obligated to inform you that it is in fact a open latrine for all the denizens of that condemned building. Ghoul's and Zombie's alike sword fight nightly at the great red relief downstairs.