Sawahi

The scorching sands of Sawahi are a fit place to live for very few. Yet the people there have found their ways. Marvelous, isn't it, how life can survive, even in the harshest environments? It's a shame, really, that earlier explorers writ off Sawahi as inhabitable. If they had only delved deeper... -Navigator Flynn Marko, in his personal diary

Geography

Sawahi is the largest skyland known to civilization. The entire skyland is covered in sand, with no visible water or plant life on the surface. The skyland is incredibly low to the Barrier, and runs right along the equator of the planet, making it an incredibly hot and hazardous place to be. Baking sand dunes are blasted by powerful and radioactive winds, often causing deadly sandstorms to emerge. The only solace is within the crags and caves just below the surface. Rivers run through these underground caverns and tunnels, providing a suitable platform for plant and creature life. Saltwater filled lakes can be found underground as well.

Fauna & Flora

On the surface, few plants or creatures make their home. Different kinds of cactus are the only plants to be found. Only gigantic insects and scorpions brave the surface, to find deposits of salt crystal, which they like to lick. Scaly wyverns hunt for the salt seeking creatures during the hot days, and retire during the deadly nights, usually to cliffs or crags where they've made their nests. Below the ground, living along rivers and lakes, grow patches of reed-like grass. Hanging moss clings to the walls and ceilings wherever it can grow, providing food for the myriad of scaly creatures.

Natural Resources

Sawahan Pink Salt can be harvested from the surface. Below, beautiful gemstones can be found embedded in tunnel walls, along with the more easily obtainable white salt crystals. The chitinous shells of most of the insects are hard as steel, and can be shaped and tempered with enough heat to create most things.

Type

Island, Floating

Inhabiting Species