Dargahl Wastes
The Dargahl Wastes is sparsely populated, nearly lifeless stretch of desert on the Western side of the continent of Kiermoth. It is separated from the jungles of Kiermoth by a vast mountain range that spans the entire continent from North to South. The land becomes more hospitable at the far reaches of the North and at the South as Kiermoth breaks away into a peninsula. Once there was a small den of Blue Dragons living within the confines of the desert, but the Red Dragon Kelphaez the Terrible claimed the mountain range as his territory and now uses the desert as his hunting grounds; the Blue Dragons are presumed dead.
Geography
The shifting sands make the desert nearly impossible to map out topographically by any cartographers currently or previously living. Some ancient records claim that there may have been an empire at some point in the past, but any ruins of that time are either eroded away forever, or buried beneath the sands.
Ecosystem
Like many deserts, it is an inhospitable landscape of scorching heat in the day time and freezing temperatures during the night. Large desert spiders, many species of lizards and snakes, scorpions, scavenging birds, and small mammalian rodents make the desert their home. In the flatter, less sandy spaces of the desert, one may find cacti of various species.
Localized Phenomena
The winds from the Western sea collide with the winds from the Eastern mountains, and in the middle of the desert one may find a cyclonic funnel cloud. These cyclones are common and frequent, sometimes spawning two or more simultaneously.
Climate
The day time temperatures can exceed 115°+ in the day, and can go as low as 22° in the night.
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