*This desert was once a rich garden, belonging to a giant of old that rose to the roof of the sky itself. Very few giants remain in the world now, and all of them minuscule compared to what they once were.

At the edge of the desert, there lies the ruins of a giant castle, and it's vast, tumbled walls are easily be mistaken for mountains. The desert and the ruins are named for the word etched over the towering doorway, which is believed to be the giant's name. The ruins are over-run with undead and mushroom creatures.

*The area stretching out from the mountains to the plains, encasing the city of Fabhcún.

Gates, tombs, Arabian nights, ruins
Archelogy, Carrion,

General look and feel of the area

People

Tava

Matriarch of a tribe of Loxodon. They travel around looking to study all of the histories of the location.

Deva Spirit - Sefa (female) Merek (male) Hashem.

Literal twins, boy and girl. Once was in service until it ascended itself. Together they were Hashem, and have taken it as a surname to elemate mortal, who they are fascinated with. Represents both halves of the desert, night and day, she is pitch black and he is the golden-brown colour of sand. In the moment before death, they turn to sand and reform elsewhere, in their sacred space.

Places

The guarded mountain.

A tabletop mountain with several caves at the base. Four of them are gated by ancient and unknown magic.

The tower of Serenity

A cleric tower, whose mission is to put the undead roaming around here to rest. Has an aviary of giant vultures, which they ride. They fund their armoury and day to day expensive by creating and selling water.

The forbidden oasis

Known to the locals of the area, this oasis may appear to be very inviting. It's an ozasis. Any People or Monsters give trouble get led towards it. It is also the graveyard for the people of this area, due to the lack of fuel for cremation and the ground of the area.

The stone tablets of Ykír

A pair of giant stone tablets, that face each other. Standing between gives a vision, although there is a debate of whether the vision is of the far past or of the future. Called Ykír because while having the vision, a stranger stands next to the watcher, introduces himself and says that he will visiting their home in a year's time. Some people go missing the following night, others have no memory of the event, but bare new and strange tattoos.

Bioz

In the deepest, driest part of the dessert. A colony of tree-Ents, but cactus. Have a go-dependent relationship with carrion birds. They defend the birds nests, and the birds eat the corpses, and fertilize the ground. Teeny tiny cactus dryads from the flowers of the cacti also inhabit the area.

Extra Lore

During The Chaos, this desert became what it is today. The giants of the land all vanished or were shrunk. The garden withered and dried to dust, turning from something lush and beautiful to a wasteland. Some flowers and plants turned to stone or glass, leaving traces of what once was. The Goliaths claim that they once were giants, who shrank on purpose to avoid the lightening and fire that crossed the sky. The Orc here tell stories tell how the last of the great cactuses violently ripped themselves from the ground, and turned into the first Orcs to escape from the terror of the storm. This differs from how Orcs in other places claim to have come into being.

During the Age of Discovery, the desert was largely unchanged, except for those that went into the ruins to discover what they could. Undead monsters came from the ruins and almost destroyed all others who lived here, but they were aided by a great many Bronze Dragons.

Barbarian tribes of Orcs and Goliath's have no love for the Empire during The Era of Empires, and constant war, raiding parties and internal power-struggles are the norm here. Three Bronze dragons fly over the sky, refusing to rest in the same place for too long for fear of being destroyed. They no longer help the gnomes after leading them here and convincing the Orc and Goliath tribes to take them in, believing that they must be strong enough to survive on their own. Most tribes believe their debt to the Bronze dragons fulfilled by this, although some still seek to re-establish the species and help them grow stronger. A few hope to convince the dragons to become part of their own tribes, and a few sorcerers have been born as a result of their...eh...persuasion.

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