Kanderi Desert

The Kanderi Desert was once a well-watered area, as evidenced by its numerous dry watercourses. One deep riverbed runs for hundreds of miles across the desert, all the way to its eastern edge where a deep escarpment drops to the jungle below. What happened thousands of years ago to cause this once-fertile plain to deteriorate to badlands and barren desert is unclear, but the ruins of abandoned cities and villages that dot the landscape suggest it was swift and severe. Some rain does fall in the desert in certain seasons, but any waterholes in low-lying places dry up quickly, and as a consequence the locations where water is available from underground (in a few small lakes, or some deep wells) are zealously guarded and vigorously fought over by the bands of people that do still call the Kanderi home. (Stories say the deep desert population includes an extremely reclusive tribe of sand elves, but most think that just a legend.) The Kanderi Desert is considered to be part of the Reaping Coast, though the hundreds of miles of the Ambicuaria Jungle to its east separate it from the ocean.

Type

Desert