The Lost Desert. Most of the other islands in this region of islands are forestry, and none of the other ones are desert. This little piece of desert seems to have gotten itself lost and wandered into a Green area. It happened a while ago, so the name of the region where it came from is unknown.
The Temple in the desert was once dedicated to the God(dess) of (Emptiness?Nothing?Void?I can't think of a good title for the Aspect...I guess I just named that God - Gidara). It contains a vast number of chambers that are open to the desert, but isolated from the other chambers but for a small door just large enough to crawl through. When it was still on the surface, you could sit in a chamber and stare off into the vast nothingness of the desert and contemplate the empty spaces - yet, you could eventually see that even in the nothing that is the desert, there are features and things to see. In Nothing, There is Something (how's that for a Koan?).
In the Post-cataclysmic times, the Temple has fallen out of use by that sect, and rumors of a Darker God's minions moving in have yet to be confirmed...
The temple was purposely built in an area pretty devoid of spectacular features. That said, to the south of the temple is a flat section of desert, which would have continued beyond the borders of the island, that consists of crusty, salty sand, the remains of a body of water that occupied that space prior to the desert forming. The locals call it the Bone Flats, for its white color, as well as the bones of creatures that have wandered there and died of dehydration (and possibly by the hand/paw of a creature that lives there)
Man, I should have formatted that post better :)
ReplyDeleteNext time, Gadget...
Also, the flavor doesn't really match the picture, we probably should move the 'L' a little to the right, to about 4:30 where that flat area is.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting to hear about the ecological implications of a desert getting the same temperature and rainfall as a temperate forest for several hundred years. Yeah, I can wait.
ReplyDeleteToo much salt in the sand, and not enough soil beneath the sand, for stuff to grow. In addition, some of the energies that scorched the surface and tore the land apart is particularly heavy on that little patch of floating land.
ReplyDeleteWater runs through the sand, the salt and magic burns any new growth, and the lack of anything useful for people has prevented settlements.
So, it'll be a little wetter and cooler, but still a desert.
Explanation makes sense to me! Count it!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'll move the L on the next map revision, whenever that may be needed.