Pale Wastes

The Pale Wastes, also called the Shadow Lands, is a desert area in the far south-east of Lourou. It is an ancient peninsular region, rendered utterly inhospitable by forgotten cataclysms and largely ignored by modern society.

Contents

 * 1 Geography
 * 2 Populace
 * 3 History

Geography
To the north and northwest, the Pale Wastes meet the Mountains of the Morn. The Mountains of Morn-Ra run roughly in a north-to-southeast curve, forming a natural border. Northwest of the mountains are the lands of Lourou, while to the southeast is the primary expanse of the Pale Waste.

The Hidden Sea is a vast inland that occupies a broad central and southern swathe of the Waste. It is so named because most of it is underground. The river Ash travels down from the Mountains of the Morn to the Hidden Sea, mostly through the Vale of Ghosts, a valley so narrow with such high cliffs that is said to be always in shadow except at noon. Many travelers have crossed the length of the Waste, starving and parched, and utterly unaware of the hundreds of miles of water that stretched beneath their feet.

Two Anarsharal and Innangfal, are located in the northern and southwestern stretch of the desert.

Innangfal is on the northern shore of the Hidden Sea, thus the city is often called the Innangfal the Hidden. To go to the Hidden City can be described as to "pass beneath the shadow", and this area of the Pale Wastes are sometimes referred to simply as the Shadow.

The coastal ruins of Anasharal are located at the southwestern tip of the Shadow Lands, where the Ash river meets the Hidden Sea at its southern surface exit. This area is called the Cold Straits.

The underground isles of Lethang and Mandragorum lie in the Hidden Sea.

The crystalline "Ghost grass" grows throughout the Shadow Lands. It is said that demons and dragons are among the creatures dwelling in cliff caves in the mountains.