The Bone Wastes
Overview
The Bone Wastes are the prime example of the raw power of aether storms. While appearing at first as miles of white sand in southern Ithara, in truth, every grain of sand in the Bone Wastes has been transmuted into salt. Rainwater and springs, already exceedingly rare in the desert, are immediately tainted on contact with the earth. The bones of creatures who lived in the wastes before they were transmuted still lie scattered among the salt; fish bones line the shores of pools like pebbles. Even stranger, fierce beasts have adapted by aether and evolution to endure in the wastes, living off of what little they can take. Stretching between the northwestern and southwestern settlements of the nation, it made any sort of trade a perilous or impossible journey.
It was only thanks to the ingenuity of the Merchant King Vishal Kurkani that the Bone Wastes could be tempered. While the beasts and dangers of the Bone Wastes are largely intact, Vishal has implemented many wells of pure, self-refilling and self-cleaning water kept safe from aetheric corruption, and the great city of Maruthala Moti Moti sits as a perfect oasis in the heart of the Bone Wastes, greatly easing travel for the average person. It is rumored that one of his grander projects is a device to reverse the warping of the Bone Wastes, a project that could revolutionize life in Ithara.
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Alternative Name(s)
Fadalat Aleizam
Type
Salt flat
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