The Nameless Desert
Geography
Rolling sand dunes crest and fall for hundreds of miles in every direction. The burning sun bleaches the sand a perfect, blinding white. On rare cloud-filled days the desert is indistinguishable from the sky. Rumor has it that halfling villages can be found along secret oases.
Halfling Tribes
The nomadic Stout Halfling tribes are not native to the Nameless Desert, but have spent several generations inhabiting it since their exodus from the greenlands. The desert provides a natural barrier against conquest by Elves or Dwarves, and time spent living among the wastes have made Halfling hunters exceptionally skilled. Deadly poisons are now one of their people’s primary exports.
Giant Ants
Three-foot long ants, aggressive and single-minded in their determination to acquire food for the hive.
Giant Scorpions
Scorpions the size of hounds that hide themselves in the sand. Highly venomous.
Giant Spiders
Burrowing spiders roughly three feet in length. Actively avoids Kindred, preferring to prey on Giant Ants and Giant Scorpions.
Dire Vultures
A bird creature with a twenty-foot wingspan, capable of picking up lightweight Kindred and dashing them against the rocks below. Frighteningly intelligent.
Sand Worms
Scaled monstrosities that can grow to six feet in diameter and four times that in length. They largely feed on minerals and Giant Ants underground, but will opportunistically eat creatures aboveground.