Desert of Fire

The hottest region in the Old World is the Red Furnace, making many of these lands uninhabitable for millennia. However, after the Fourth Age, The Calamity the situation became worse. The lands ruptured and magma poured out, forming many lava lakes. The ash and fire make this place appealing only to those races that can survive in the hottest of places, like the Red Dragons and this makes the desert even more unappealing for colonists and traders. While some try to pass through, they always need a guide, whom they can find in the Seljuk's Sons tribes. The Divine Empire has a natural barrier to their expansion to the south and it might take them centuries to take those lands again.