the Copper Desert

The Lizardmen of Lustria named this region the Copper Desert but as deserts go, it is pretty vibrant and lively, more of a steppe than a desert. There are sandy patchs here and there, but most of the area is covered in grasses.
The realm is called the Copper Desert because the area has some active copper mines.

Localized Phenomena

Due to ocean currents and vagaries of prevailing winds, despite being on the coast, this region does not get a lot of rain. Most rain falls over the sea, not over the Copper Desert.

by Midjourney

Some rain does fall over this desert, so while the region is far dryer than the local Lizardmen would like, the region is hardly a blighted death trap like the deserts of the Southlands. There are even a few a weak streams running through the region flowing down the Spine of Mountains that water the realm in the spring for a few months every year.

Climate

Temperate and dry with hot summers and cold winters. Rain fall is generally sparse but picks up in the spring which attracts some migratory animals (and migratory Lizardmen).

Fauna & Flora

The realm's plant life is mostly grasses and scrubby plants with a few lone trees here and there.
Most of Lustria's dinosaurs cannot digest grass, at least not well enough to eat grass exclusively. The realm's animal life is mostly mammailian, not reptilian. A few grazing animals and a few predators that hunt them. During the spring (what passes for the wet season here), a far ranging terradons will fly over and occasionally hunt or mate in the region.

Natural Resources

The region has some copper mines. Since copper is a critical component in bronze, and the First are stuck in the bronze age, the Lizardmen maintain a few mining camps this year. They usually abandon their mining camps entirely before the winter each other.

There is no agriculture here. The area is too dry for Skinks to live off the land long term, but if If human settles ever sailed here, the region could theoretically sustain some goat and sheep herders and a few subsistence farmers...assuming the Lizardmen allowed them to do this of course.

Nubian Goats by Jorge Salvador

History

There were many skirmishes between Daemons and the First during the Time of the Great Catastrophe. The disruption of the Great Catastrophe is partially responsible for the drying of the region, but the region was not supernaturally tainted by daemonic forces.
After the Great Catastrophe, not much happened here on a historical scale. The realm is relatively exposed to Prodigal and Fallen races being on the coastline, but given the lack of settlements or exotic resources, Lizardmen and outsiders have little incentive to fight here.

Type

Steppe

Location under

Lustria