Desert of Lexighor

The Desert of Lexighor is a barren, inhospitable, hot desert that covers most of Lexighor. This vast expanse of arid land is home to salty, undrinkable groundwater, sweeping dust storms, tornadoes, and dangerous creatures built to survive such conditions. Few peoples make their homes in the Desert of Lexighor by choice, but there are a few towns and trading posts scattered about.

Geography

Edarri Erg

The Edarri Erg is a vast swath of uninterrupted dunes across the northern expanse of the desert.

Blackstone Valley

Blackstone Valley is a region of long-extinct volcanic mounds that lays between Deilkhos and Bossniri. It gets its name from the black basalt rocks that cover the tops of the mounds.

Tellupo Dunes

The easternmost border of the desert against the Gomchar Sea. It lies between Obreidhion and Bossniri.

Ra'yyi Stony Desert

The Ra'yyi Stony Desert is a region where the wind erosion has worn down the sand, reducing this area to a series of hamadas and serirs (desert areas with floors covered in rocks and gravel).

Glade of Golden Resin

An oasis and the home of the Amber Elves.

Mountains

• Deilkhos - A mountain range that divides Lexighor from Andavronia.
• Thamkithick Mountains - This mountain range separates the desert from the lush regions of Xen'Hivith and Yamtherici.
• Archei - Archei is a mountain range along the western coast. It came to be inhabited by Dwarven settlers, the Archei Clans.

Lakes

• Pheghk-Minx - The larger of the two lakes of the Lexighor Desert
• Lirk-Winorth - The smaller of the two lakes

History

The Desert of Lexighor was once inhabited by the fierce abominations, caste creatures that repurpose the bodies of other races to manufacture more of their own kind, and the people of Andavronia were often targeted by abominations from the Desert of Lexighor. During the Immigration Era, dwarves, elves, humans, and orcs arrived to Khyorgan, but the races of man and the orcs came into conflict, leading the Orcs to be forced into the harsh conditions of the Desert of Lexighor.

Between the lack of many natural resources, infighting, hostility from the native abominations, and a refusal by both the orcs and men to trade among one another, the orcs remained largely tribal in society. After the Abomination Crusades in Obreidhion lead the abominations to consolidate their power in distant eastern Dhelarushick, and the danger of a Lexighor Crusade from Andavronia became a fear among the orcs, tribes began to unite with one another, and an organized orc nation in Lexighor may be the result.