Sands of Hell

Tributation Monument
CategoryDeserts
ContinentBrucrumus
RegionAerie of Dragons, Grashakh, Hells Womb, Miradelgûn
AliasStafknir Hrerbjof
MapSands of Hell Desert

Once a wide verdant vale of forests and tall grasslands, in 4500 DE, in the Battle of Stafknir Hrerbjof, the landscape was irrevocably changed. Then a contested land, the dying breath of a legendary dragon named Golruwyrm, bolstered by the blood of her father Bruh Kreniik, destroyed nearly an entire primordial army and took out its two leaders, the primordial lords Buldapulax and Kurrolath.

One of the peoples left here after the fall of their Primordial masters were the Xorn. Refugees on an alien world, unable to completely adapt to the world's energy composition, in protest, their body's grow crystalline cysts. About three centuries later, it was discovered these cysts had the properties of Deep Crystal, reservoirs for psychic energy and of great importance to both sides of the Creation War. At the time, with psychic energy of interest to both sides of the war, a primordial lord by the name of Storralk was the next to be become master of a windswept landscape of great sand dunes, bleakness, and forgotten ruins. Under Storralk, the Knudmid were tasked with harvesting Xorn Cysts.

In the Lith-Crillion Era, elements of Sâlo Tânê 7 befriended the Knudmid. Impressed with their new friends, some say by magical influence and decades of indoctrination, others by design, the Knudmid built great edifices to a people that many revered as genius protectors; the largest structure being the Pyramids of Life.

Around 1000 LE, the Knudmid began to lose faith in their "gods". Legendary locust plagues, increasing sand worm attacks, and alluvial storms were taking a heavy toll. A decade after giving up on the Lith-Crillion, in 1011 LE, the Knudmid suffered the Stone Curse, a civilization ending event. Today, travelers of this desert sometimes encounter giant life-like statues; victims of the Stone Curse, great finds, some adorning the grand chambers of faraway castles and palaces, while tens of thousands lie buried in the sands.

Bordered by four regions, the Sands of Hells is a hot and often windy desert. One of the more unusual currents is the Winds of Golruwyrm. Beyond the hazards of strange winds, the area's most dangerous denizens are primordial sand worms, behemoths up to twice the size of purple worms.

Near the center of the Sands of Hell is the Viiz Bo. This river, cutting north to south across a dune tossed and craggy landscape, is a major trade artery linking the northern holds of the Toomrur Hegemony and those far south in Ag Envok and beyond.