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7: The Avenad desert in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) is surrounded by two mountain ranges: the Errias Mountains form the border between Avenad and the surrounding Kingdom of Hroth, Kingdom of Valestra, and a minor portion of the Vizrani Empire…

#OctoberWorldbuilders Hiddigaha still has enough groundwater for the occasional well, but the soil has been salted by millennia of irrigation, so they herd goats, camels, sheep and horses.
Two major sources of income are being bribed not to engage in piracy and working for archeologists.

There are plenty of ruined cities on the plains of Seyzharel, but they’re mostly recent. The cliffs overlooking the plains are sedimentary rock above metamorphic rock.
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The Ghan Desert is a bit of a cross between Tatooine and the Sonoran Desert, a xeric shrubland, one having several sources of reliable water, the most famous and well-known being the Starflow River. There are also other 🧵

Good morning, #OctoberWorldbuilders! Thanks to all of you who have been patient while I spend some much-needed time off social media. I hope the prompts have been useful for creating your desert! Today: talk about its geology, rocks, or maybe some ruins. Whatcha got in your fantastical desert?👀

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The nomadic Tarik subsist off their herds (and esp. camels & goats) and oases/wells, while those in the caravan cities have access to what little fertile terrain there is and import whatever they can’t grow.

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Most Urgaians get their water from oases or underground reservoirs. Their homes are usually well-insulated to keep out the worst of the desert heat, most settlements rely on the blessings of Golnesh and Lespir to keep farmland fertile enough for crops.

Day 6. How do they survive?

They're skeletons.

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6. Survival

The Wyrmoilans struggle daily to survive. Groundwater is scarce and rationed strictly, and in the harshest times, they have been forced to eat their mounts. Sand Reaper is barely edible, but if it gives a soldier that little extra muscle, the generals don't care.

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They get water either by rivers or oasis. Nomads tend to travel around and eat wildlife. Cities are in places where crops can be grown.

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Surviving around Kashra is a community effort.

Food comes from hardy crops, gathered desert plants, trade, and whatever can be preserved for leaner stretches. Nothing useful gets wasted. Water is collected and stored communally, with access treated as a necessity rather...

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The nomadic tribes have herds of camels and goats that travel with them. Water is usually collected from rain, from the oases they visit on their travels, or, rarely, from rivers. They wear flowing cotton clothing outdoors to happen with airflow.

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The desert city of Iram Ubar survives by trading, gardening, hunting, foraging for desert vegetation, & getting water from their enchanted spring (at the city square). They also have an underground water system.

Hunt, collect water and ballfruit at one of several springs in the foothills. Despite being a desert, the Wastes aren't as unforgiving as one might think. Original Enclosure systems take care of most basic needs. It's austere, but the real threats are other. 🧵1/5

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In the world of Unsaved, the Medish Arh who live in the Shimmery don't drink water as they can't trust it. Instead, they draw blood from their animals and distill it.
Though on special occasions they will drink it straight from the animal.

There is no desert society in AElit. Well, I guess there could be a society of the dead? 🤔 The people who handle the dead no longer go into the desert for burials; when they did, they carried temporary shelters and provisions--just enough for the job.

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Reclamation being a pretty big deal.

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In growhouses built into settlements, or is some rare farms where oasies allow, but a very large quantity is imported from other, more fertile regions.

Water is the big one, with every settlement being near a deep aquifer or oasis of some kind, and water processing and

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Are taken for non-Dwarven denizens (dwarves have an innate heat resistance, so the elevated temperatures don’t bother them, just sunlight). Thankfully Chillweave is common throughout the Alliance, so this is just where everyone uses it, not just elves.

For food, some is farmed

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So, the main way that folk survive is by staying the heck away from the sun; ie, underground. Hollowed out plateaus, canyon walls, etc, are where most settlements are built where the suns rays can’t reach.

But given the volcanic activity in the desert as well, further steps