Rhyte
The Seat of the Hierarch
Rhyte is the heart of the Caluan Desert, where the sun bakes the land into a sea of golden dunes and towering red sandstone meccas rise from the shifting sands like forgotten gods. This province, the largest in Calua, holds the seat of governance, with the Hierarch ruling from the grand capital of Odell. Here, the Tombking Viumu Rhytyn balances the Oligarchy and the Apostles of Celestialism to ensure his nations prosperity and history.
Odell is a city of carved stone and towering obelisks, built upon the ruins of older civilizations that succumbed to the relentless desert. The city's elite navigate shadowed corridors of power, while traders and fortune seekers barter for silks, relics, and weapons in its vast markets. Rhyte is a land of ambition, where merchants and warlords alike vie for dominance over the desert’s wealth—silver veins, hidden oases, and the powerful Ancestral Ink.
Beyond Odell, the land is marked by sites of mystery and danger. The Ancient Ones' Carvings, massive statues sculpted by the enigmatic sand giants, stand solemn in the dunes, their purpose long forgotten. The Glass Forest of Rhyte glitters beneath the sun, a graveyard of fused, crystalline trees—remnants of a long-ago cataclysm that melted the land itself. The Caves of Moringua run deep beneath the desert floor, where whispers claim lost knowledge lies buried beneath layers of stone and time.
The desert itself is both a sanctuary and a grave. Spotted hounds and savanna strikers prowl the dunes, while sandsweeper lizards dart between the rocks, nearly invisible in the heat shimmer. Above, sunkissed starlings wheel in the sky, their bright plumage a rare beauty against the endless horizon.
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- Alhat Crossing
- Ancients One's Carvings
- Avsai
- Carthureagus
- Caves of Moringua
- Desert of Calua
- Ekre
- Farnein
- Ghi'Nan's Tomb
- Glass Forest of Rhyte
- Grasand
- Intiyupa
- Jalha
- Jasmin
- Kerno
- Khito
- Kirapata
- Lost Oasis
- Lost Wai
- Madestone
- Mara Ayay
- Masnarab
- Mir'Dhat Canyon Range
- Odell
- Renhemidd
- Sparto's Crossing
- Sparto's Fissure
- Sunken Tower
- Wayira
- Whershal
- Zarados
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