Golden Sands Triumvirate

The Golden Sands Triumvirate was an ancient civilization which lived in the three largest deserts of the known world, The Heart Sands, the Eastern Desert and the Western Desert. The Heart Sands are known today as Anru-Sal. All that remains of the empire of the golden sands are monuments and ruins.

The statue of Anyr is located on the eastern border of the desert, and surrounded by unusual trees unlike any others found in Drevhall. Roughly translated, the inscription on the statue read "Great honor to lord Anyr, last ruler of the west". The statue depicts a horned humanoid with an emerald heart and a golden scepter.

The tomb on Anyr is located in the north west of the desert, and is surrounded by the ruins of a city which was swept away by the same force that defeated Anyr's armies, and caused the fall of his empire. The crumbling ruins of a beacon tower, which served as a repository for treasure marks the site. At the center of the city sits a dry well, adorned with a pillar topped with a sea lantern.

The tomb itself is a large triangular structure. Within was the Emperor's sarcophagus in the center of a platform surrounded by lava.

From various scraps of information which have been translated, archaeologists have been able to glean a number of things about the Golden Sands Triumvirate.

Primary sources indicate that Emperor Anyr went insane, uprooted his people and moved them to the site of his tomb, and fortified it to wage war against the east. In the last days of the empire the city was under martial law.

### Discovery

The ruins of the Golden Sands Triumvirate were discovered by JesterInBlack, who stumbled across them while collecting sand in the desert to drain an ocean monument. When he discovered these ruins were the site of the collapsed Golden Sands empire, he, being a piglin, dreamed of finding a desert made entirely of gold, and explored the site thoroughly. He was disappointed, however, to find no such thing, or so much as a speck of gold among the ruins. However, he did find something of value: a few fragments of ancient writings, which he translated, and shed some light on what happened here. Long ago, this city was laid to ruin by an unknown enemy from the east, and the last emperor was entombed on the site.

Jester then auctioned the coordinates to the site off, and watched Thermo raid the tomb. Hidden beneath the emperor's sarcophagus, the pair found a case of bedrock, large enough to contain something two meters tall and one across. In a subsequent expedition, Jester broke the bedrock. Others later returned to the site to see what this had revealed, and were surprised to find the husk of Emperor Anyr was apparently contained within.

In one more expedition to the site, Jester explored the gold mines and caverns beneath Anru-Sal, and recovered a modest amount of untapped ore for the region, but nothing of particular note.

### Theories

This section contains speculation.

Scholars of Drevhall's history have theorized that the Golden Sands Triumvirate may have been defeated by the ancient piglin tribes, or an agent of them, as it is known the empire's enemies came from the east, but expeditions through the swamps and jungles which lie to the east of the desert found no signs of civilization, however, did discover the ruins of a nether portal. And if the Golden Sands did derive their name from their material wealth, it is clear how they could become a target for Piglin raids. Additionally, looting a great empire could help explain why piglins possess such copious quantities of gold.

Some have reported seeing Jester holding an unidentified item, beginning shortly after his first expedition, and accuse him of robbing the tomb and finding a relic. Allegations which he has denied.

### Primary Sources

Translations of the surviving fragments of writings salvaged from the ruins of Anru-Sal will eventually be made available to the public.