Great Eastern Erg

Part of the Ashurian Desert, this vast dune sea has waves of sand that are moved by the wind and interrupted only by the occasional oasis. The Erg may be as much as 400 miles wide, and perhaps 1,000 miles north to south, although no one has ever measured its true extent. The dunes begin near the southern tip of the Desert Wall, just north of the hill country claimed by the Antioch City-States, and continue nearly 200 miles past the north end of the wall. In the east, the Great Erg is limited by the Zakros Mountains, though part of it continues into the Empire of Assuria itself. On the west, the sand runs right down to the coast of the Sea of Spices, where it is not contained by the Desert Wall.
Only the fast-moving Havari River can keep from being covered by the dunes, and even it collects a great deal of sand on its way through the desert. Relics of an earlier empire are known to be buried beneath the sands, from a time when the area was farmland rather than desolation, but the wind seldom reveals them, and no one has been able to chart their locations. The Eastern Erg is dotted with oases, and a well-traveled caravan road follows the most-efficient selection of these. Other routes across the desert are possible but may be more difficult or dangerous.

Type

Desert