Southern Desert

The Southern Desert is a vast, desolate region that is expanding on a daily basis.
The southern desert is truly vast, stretching along most of the lower seaboard of the Infant Sea. Day by day it advances, already it has devoured the realms of the Southern Elven Kindred, and has consumed much of the eastern plains. In many places, the dune march unchallenged to the sea. The mysterious kingdom of Ophidia, sustained by its rich river valley, occupies much of the west, scattered oases, desert cities and other, stranger kingdoms are scattered across its interior. But ruins, dead trees, and the bones of the animals that once lived here are all that challenge the whispering sand for space.
Further south are the Cracked Lands, a fractured landscape of parched stone and craters. Some sages maintain this was the site of a powerful kingdom, flattened by a falling comet during the God War, others that it is a site of evil to rival the Abyss. Those of the Noble Races that have crossed the desert and the Cracked Lands are but a handful in number, for there is insufficient water to sustain a camel there. On the far side these travellers assert the land abruptly changes, becoming verdant and green, hills cloaked with jungle and teeming with life.  
=== Other Known Geography: ===
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==== Settlements, Mines, Keeps and Holds ====
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==== Watches and Marches ====
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==== Mountains ====
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==== Woodlands ====
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==== Other Terrain ====
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