Raraku

The Raraku Desert is a place of both natural beatuy and endless sands. It is home to the Kor, among others.

Climate
Blue skies and high wind-carved rocks are inherently Raraku, though explorers would claim that the deeper one goes into the shifting sands the more alien the landscape becomes.

The heat within inner Raraku is enough to kill most men, and so it is difficult to assess the claims made by the wind-travelling Kor of magnificent cities carved out of mountains, and of creatures of metallic skin.

History
Much of Raraku lies in mystery, for during the Mythic Era, the Kor were mostly isolated upon the western coast of Raraku.

Aeytheri expeditions into the deesert would be frutiless, and it was claimed that there was no natural importance to the land in both its geographic positioning and emptiness.

So it was to the surprise of Trajans Empire that during the Second Era a people would emerge from the Desert, having tamed its harshess with windborne vessels that surf on sands, claiming ancient histories, all of which would claim that the Kor were not in fact the builders of the structures they inhabitted, but rather explorers like anyone else.

The flood that ended the Third Era would not effect the Kor people, who grew rich as the Heartlands suffered.

Now, Eastern Raraku is a trading port of exotic goods, where people practise the arts and colleges are founded that rival even the Arcanists' Guild.