The Dead Sands

The Noasa Ti'ilc are a nomadic group of Malseid with a modest tent encampment currently in Bone City.

The clan of Lizardfolk that make their home high on the mesa known as Calamity Ridge are secretive, reclusive, and distrustful of hoppers. Though they would not use these terms, they are organized as an anarcho-syndicalist commune with no central government or leadership, and no organized economy. Indeed the very …

Until recently, Tano's Edge was little more than a remote village on a ridge of the same name overlooking the Sahwat desert, catering to outcasts and the lawless. But with the discovery of ruins under the sands and the riches they contain, this town has become a powder keg of …

Between Bone City to the west and Gopher Gulch to the east lies a vast, empty stretch of dunes. To most the region does not even warrant consideration; it is simply "more Sahwhat." But the savvy Hopper knows it by a different name: The Undersands. For beneath the dunes lies …

Dunes stretching to the southern horizons spread out before you, dotted with the skeletal remains of massive creatures. There is little shelter here and less foraging, though a strange ecology has begun to sprout around the ancient bones, where a black moss has taken hold and is now home to …

Southwest of the Blooming Wastes lies an empty stretch of hard-packed stone, from which rises Calamity Ridge -- a sprawling mesa 15 miles long and 200 feet high. Sheltering at the base of the ridge is advised, as the otherwise empty land provides no cover from stalking predators. Legend has it …

Gopher Gulch emerges from the southern edge of Dust River Canyon and turns east towards the rocky foothills at the base of the eastern range of Hoard's Vault. Heavy irregular stone cover the shallow riverbed which traverses a barren plain of cracked, broken ground. Shrub and small plants dot the …

Dust River Canyon is a half-mile wide gash in the landscape, running forty miles southeast from the edge of the Blooming Wastes. A sheer, crumbling switchback leads to its base where thick clouds of red dust some 2 feet thick swirl, resisting all attempts to settle or disperse. Stalking predators …

The Blooming Wastes stretch out before you: a mostly flat expanse of hard, cracked earth blanketed by some kind of sandy brown scrub. Small mesas dot the horizon, suggesting the possibility of shelter. As you approach you see that the scrub is covered in thick black thorns sharp enough to …