The Dragon's Maw
The Dragon's Maw is a massive desert located between two branches of a mountain system on Berdea. The wildlife and locals of this oppressively hot sand pit are hostile to invaders, as well as strange and unique. Nestled deep in the belly of this desert however, is an even more inhospitable hell hole known as The Land's Sorrow.
Geography
The desert occupies almost a quarter of the southern half of Berdea. Golden sands stretch as far as the eye can see, the horizon obscured by the rise and fall of dunes and waves of heat. There is the occasional oasis fed by underground streams in this hellhole, but they are few and far between. To the east and south, it slowly fades into grass lands and plains. To the north and west, it is lined by the mountains dubbed the Dragon's Jaws. However, the closer to the mountains one draws, the sand darkens to black, clumping together in progressively larger chunks until it becomes solid scorched stone at the edge of the Land's Sorrow.
Ecosystem
This desert is a harsh environment, arguably more so than others present on Eldris. Compounding the little rainfall, yearly flooding from the snow melt of the Dragon's Jaws, and once-every-ten-years flooding from the The Ten Year Storm, and the strange creatures; the heat and corrupt aethyr leeching from The Land's Sorrow make it even more deadly. herbivores
Ecosystem Cycles
The ecosystem cycles through periods of drought and flooding. Each year after the thaw in the spring, the creatures seek higher grounds to avoid being swept away. The multitude of boulders, dunes, and elevational shifts provide ample cover from this. The yearly flooding replenishes oasi, cleanses the ambient mana to tolerable levels, and stimulates the growth of the oasis plants. Every ten years, like the rest of the world, The Dragon's Maw is subjected to the storm that buries continents in ice and snow. However, Berdea is far enough away from the source of this storm that they experience heavy rainfall instead.
Fauna & Flora
The flora and fauna in the Dragon's Maw are similar to those found in other regions of the world, yet vastly different. One might even say warped. Scorpions here are jet black with stone like carpace the size of a large dog or apartment complex. The lizards are small, golden like the sands, highly aggressive, and venomous, and that is just known samples observed by the expeditionary forces.
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Desert
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