Barren Frontier

Fractures Series
Storyline by Rainimator and the Production Team

* Image

The Endstone Crusaders riding in the Barren Frontier in a promotional render for Be Afraid

### Faction Control

 Nether Horde (formerly)*

Desert Villages (Northern parts only)

None (Southern part, current)

## Geography

### Nearest Territory

Floating Isles, Eastern Tundra. Swamp Lands, Undead Wasteland, Guardian's Landing, Frostbourne Tundra, Far Plains, Wither Forest

## Other Information

### First Appearance

Be Afraid

The **Barren Frontier** is a vast desert region of the central Overworld, stretching from Frostbourne territory in the far northwest to the Swamp Lands. The frontier could easily lay claim as the largest Overworld region. It made its debut in Be Afraid.

The Frontier is populated by a belt of desert villages near its central northern border, but is mainly uninhabited. It encircles the central Far Plains.

## Information

### Geography

The Barren Frontier encircles the Far Plains, and is bordered by nearly every other known Overworld territory - all bordering the sea. Because of this, it is known to be the largest region in  the known Overworld[a].

The Barren Frontier is a vast and desolate desert region, with a hot climate an a blazing sun; few settlements has been established there. Lone cacti and dead bush dot the sand dunes, but few plants grow in the Frontier. At the border, the Frontier has relatively even terrain, although the dunes and cacti become more frequent further out.

The people of the Barren Frontier reside near the northern border, near the Mystic Forest, in a small belt of villages.

### Flora/Fauna

Due to the Barren Frontier's desert climate and lack of water, no known animals and few plants have been sighted there there, except an abundance of cacti and dead bush. However, desert villagers have brought water and agriculture to the region, allowing for the establishment of several northern settlements known as the Desert Villages.

### The Nether War

In Gotta Get Outta Here, a Nether Horde army is shown departing the occupied Desert Villages to meet up with a larger force heading to attack a Hilda's Outpost.1 In Back into Darkness, the Dessert villages were shown to have not been reoccupied by the Nether Horde, with Frostbourne forces moving through the villages to attack a Horde army in the Northern Far Plains during there counteroffensive. On the other Hand, the Southern part of the Barren Frontier is shown to be under the control of the Nether Horde on Kralos' map, though the Frostbourne would later be seen putting an end to the occupation.2However unlike their liberation of the Mystic Forest, the Frostbourne continued moving forward to the Far Plains instead of occupying the Frontier, likely due to its limited strategic value.

#### Plants

* Cacti
* Dead Bush

### Other

Part of the Barren Frontier's size is due to it being mostly unclaimed and unpopulated, as it is mostly a large, barren desert.

Besides what has been revealed in an Overworld map and posts on the Rainimator Q&A Corner and Twitter, there is little known information on the Barren Frontier.

## Trivia

* The Barren Frontier is the first desert region known.
	+ The Barren Frontier also hosts the Desert Villages, the fourth human faction known.

## Gallery

The Endstone Crusaders near the border of the the **Barren Frontier** and a forest in Be Afraid.
## References

### Notes

[a] In more depth, the Mystic Forest is at the Frontier's northern border, the Eastern Tundra and the Swamp Lands at its east, the Undead Wasteland and its bordering lake in its southeastern corner, Guardian's Landing at its south and southwestern corner and the Frostbourne Tundra in the west and northwest.

**List of Locations**