Bowl of Loneliness

The Bowl of Loneliness was a great dune field located in the Sword region of the Anauroch desert.
==Description==
The Bowl of Loneliness was an immense basin of white whaleback dunes, which looked like a stormy ice ocean from the distance. The sands there were pale as bones and the dunes towered as high as . Scaling one of those steep slopes with camels could take a whole day. The sandstorms made travel through the region very difficult: the sand from the dune crests swept like a flood across the troughs, engulfing travelers up to their heads.
Outside the Bowl, the yellow and white sand dunes grew smaller and more easily traversable. Their gradual slopes rose no more than above ground level and were inset with pathways formed by the many people and camels that traversed the region.
==Geography==
The Bowl of Loneliness was located on the far eastern stretch of the Sword, between the oases of El Rahalat and El Ma'ra.
==History==
In the , Zhentarim raiders ambushed the travelers Ruha, Kadumi, and Lander as they were traveling across the Bowl of Loneliness.
==Appendix==
===Appearances===
:;Novels
:: The Parched Sea
===References===
Category:Dune fields
Category:Regions
Category:Locations in the Sword
Category:Locations in Anauroch
Category:Locations in North Faerûn
Category:Locations in Faerûn
Category:Locations on Toril