Kurkar

Kurkar is located at an oasis in the Western Desert, between Elephantine and the Harh-Ahu-Ra Hills. It is the site of a former tributary of the Stygian that is now merely a series of shallow watering holes supplied by a slow underground spring. The land rises west of the Stygian, so Kurkar is on a plateau that continues to rise toward the hills to the west. The oasis area is well-supplied with date palms and other crops that can be grown in poorer soils. The town itself has a sturdy wall and a military unit to guard it, and a fortified caravanserai for travelers. The oasis attracts gazelles and other wild animals, including small rodents, and those rodents seem to have attracted the elusive small felines known as sand cats. These wild cats, barely larger than a domesticated cat, drink very little since they get most of their liquid from their prey. Having a ready source of prey close at hand is not something to reject in the desert, though, so the evasive sand cats have made themselves at home around the edges of the oasis. The town of Dunqar to the southwest along the trade route is also known to have a population of sand cats.

Settlement

Kurkar, Town of

Ruler

Administrator Hebt-Kefia

Government

bureaucracy

Population

6,109 (mostly Khemitite)

Type

Town

Owning Organization

Khemit