Located in the Drylands south of the Sundered Lands, the Desert of Desolation is an area contained within the Dustwall - a ring of mountains seven hundred miles across, created in the blast of an ancient cataclysm.
A formerly fertile region supported by the Fountain of Athis, the area turned into a desert when an evil pharaoh's death-curse dried up the Fountain. Now, only a handful of desert dwellers eke out a living, monsters roam the wasteland, and evil guilds prey upon those who walk the desert. Worse yet, a thousand-year-old prophecy of the return of an ancient evil is showing signs it is about to become reality.
It is into this area that a party of heroes arrives. At first unwitting pawns in the thousand-year-old machinations of the archmage Martek, it is up to them to prove they are the heroes of prophecy and the saviours of the Desert of Desolation.