The Endless Desert
The great sand of Eldaara Place Eldaara The equatorial middle continent of Elshore, between Tarkdaara to the north and Khaldaara to the south., the land to which the AC 1 war council ordered the Annil People Annil Small, scaled, and easy to overlook, the Annil were the earliest of the engineered lines, made as household aides and keepers of the systems that kept the world running. resettled, and along whose northern edge the Erg Tribal Confederation Faction Erg Tribal Confederation A loose alliance of seven major Erg tribes inhabiting the southern reaches of Eldaara, the Confederation is not a state in any formal sense but a body that endures in memory rat... endures between sand and frost. It is a country of distance and hunger more than of cities.
Key traits
- Its official AC 50 name in the old registers is Sig Tik'daara; the common name is already what the road and the sea-lanes say, and by the later age it is all that remains in daily speech.
- Equatorial desert of Eldaara; the Annil resettlement ground of the AC 1 decrees.
- Its northern edge bounds the territory of the Erg Confederation.
Sig Tik'daara, the maps say: the Endless Desert, and for once the old register and the plain tongue agree on the essential point. It is not the largest emptiness in the world, sailors will tell you, but it is the driest telling of the same story. The Annils were ordered here after the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the... and refused, going under the world instead, and the desert has kept a certain vacancy ever since, like a room prepared for guests who chose otherwise. Light is its crop, distance its architecture. What water exists is old, deep, and exactly where the old world left it.