Sand Road

The Sand Road connected the Unicorn lands with their holdings outside of Rokugan, crossing the northern border. A Call to Stewardship (Unicorn Clan letter)
== Trade Route ==
The safe route through the Burning Sands to the Cradle of the World and the Ivory Kingdoms was opened in 850 by Shinjo Temujin. He ordered to build way station was built every fifty li along its entire length, but many were unfinished or undersupplied. The way stations provisioned with everything neccessary to aid the caravans that traveled the road, and they were also used to collect tariffs to any gaijin merchant who made use of it. The Sand Road could be fully traveled in a handful of months, reaching the Conqueror's Sea in the Burning Sands. Across the Burning Sands, by Daniel Lovat Clark Khanbulak was the terminus of the Sand Road to the Burning Sands. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 77 Alongside this road was located the Caliphate city of al-Bhagvar. Dark Tides, p. 6
=== Goods ===
Trade with the West soon made the Unicorn one of the richest clans in the Emerald Empire. The silk, tea, and art they sent west were repaid with caravans bursting with nephrite jade, precious stones and metals, honey, sugar, opium, cotton, and gaijin artifacts sold to the clans and the Imperial Families, while they kept horses and other livestock for themselves. 
=== Geography ===
During the reign of Shinjo Khulan Khan the Sand Road was surveyed, and it run some 12,500 li from Khanbulak to Al-Zawira, the capital of the Qamarist Caliphate. From Khanbulak the road twisted down through a rocky landscape and into the highlands of the Plain of Wind and Stone. To the south and west of the plain, the road climbed into the foothills of the Pillar of the Sky, descending to the scorched plain of the Burning Sands proper. 
== Contested Land ==
In 1072 the caliph attempted to conquer the Sand Road, and forced the Ganzu people of the Hidden Valley to surrender to him, only to be broke by the combined forces of the Battle Maidens and the White Horde in 1074. 
== External links ==
* Trading on the Sand Road (Warriors of the Wind)
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Category:Roads (TCG)
Category:Caliphate Holdings