...So the closest thing to desert is the drier scrub climate in the rain shadow in the western Days. Even they have moist, salt tolerant zones near the ocean, so the driest zones are semi-arid at most. Still, it's not anywhere someone's going to be lost and desperate for water. #OctoberWorldBuilders

#OctoberWorldBuilders The Island is over a kilometer high at its center, and 13 km across at its shore. With its position at about 30 degrees south, and with FirstDay pointing almost exactly East, The Island gets easterly winds that bring mosture mostly to FirstDay, SecondDay, and LastDay...

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The region surrounded the "Dry Sea". While the coastline of the sea resembles the Med. , a better comparison to the geography would be the Red Sea or Persian Gulf.

A shallow sea surrounded almost entirely by deserts, semi-deserts, and mountains.

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So we haven't cooked up any deserts yet so ill be making one this week in the elementally unstable country of Eitos. The Avarian Desert. Its unnatural but vital to the country.

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The Tizrou Desert, often called The Barrens, is the largest hot desert in Nixtral. It takes up a large chunk of the top 1/3 of Ruquall, the western continent.

Similar to our Sahara, the Tizrou is marked by sand dunes & high temps, but w/ frequent oases.

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The Empire is vast enough to have more than one desert.

Catboy Yves is from an arctic desert called The Frosteds. People are generally pretty easy-going there to make up for the harsh environment and place a high value on crafts and the arts.

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#OctoberWorldbuilders The southern desert is not particularly interested in being crossed.

Endless dunes bury old paths, sandstorms can erase landmarks, and the heat gives way to brutal cold after sunset. Ruins and abandoned settlements still dot the landscape, including Xareth,...

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In the world of Unsaved, there are many deserts.

They have names like the Barrows, the Hungry Dunes, the Devourer of Empires, the M'phy Desert, and Mihanti's Forge. But for this month, we'll talk about the Shimmery.

A land broken not just in space, but time.

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Urgaia is home to the largest desert in all of Theryl. Vast dunes, rocky canyons and hard, compact dirt comprise much of the nation's landscape.

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I've been talking recently about the Hidden Oasis and the Starflow River Valley. I'll go broader, and talk, now, about the Ghan Desert, the geographical region the Hidden Oasis sets within, known for the Seven Cities of 🧵

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Prophecy 71 begins in a desert, but it's never named. It's in the country of Quisoll and it includes Oasis City, a massive travel hub and center of trade and culture. This means the desert is also dangerous, with truly evil bandits who have local authorities on their payroll.

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#TheDragonblood: The magical world is an alt-Earth with more or less the same deserts as Earth, but not necessarily the same names.

Kumat is located in the T'ašrat Desert, through which flows the Yatraw River, the longest river in the world.

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There is a great desert in The Masqued Sorcerer's world known as The Southern Wasteland. It's right below where no man's land was in the war, so most people think the devastation is an extension of that. They're wrong.

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The desert is the Aukroon, which is just an old word for "desert." Works for the Sahara and Gobi, works for me.

It's a cold desert formed by combination of the Dawnbreaks' rain shadow and lack of water being transported to the continent's interior at that latitude. ⬇️

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#OctoberWorldbuilders The empire directly east of Islana's home country used to be flourishing, but their land is turning more and more arid. Over a hundred years, they've gone from plains to desert... and it's getting worse. #goldendusk

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I'd recently been chatting with a friend that there aren't enough desert settings featured in stories and games. I'd like to have a desert in my world, but right now, I don't see one. How about a dessert? Harpy heart honey cakes. Mmm...

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There is a desert at the southern part of the island of AElit that is known as Belkanel (lit. "place without water") or "the Deadlands." It is believed that Telamenos (Death) lives there and used to be the place the dead were brought to for burial. No one goes there now.

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I wanna dabble here and consider Camp DuLock, which has notable deserts in the 5GC, in that they are horticultural science labs.
The planet has a wide variety of biomes, but a few are desert.
Vibe is... scramble all the Earth deserts and minimize the biodiversity.

The Wastes (in red) is a rain-shadow desert along the eastern flanks of the Western Range. Home of proud adaimag plainsmen in their yurts, a very different group of maosa, the source for copper, and the point of origin for the primary antagonist, Hurásu.

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