Climate and Geography
The Silt-Reach Barrens are an expansive, sun-baked desert basin stretching southward from the base of the Iron-Tooth Peaks right up to the jagged obsidian rim of the Glass Pit. The environment is defined by shifting dust flats, ancient stone monoliths, and a brutal, dry heat.
The Weather: Scorching daytime temperatures that bake the earth white, followed by sudden, bone-chilling drops after sunset. Low-slung dust storms sweep silently across the flats, and dry, static-charged atmospheric fronts occasionally cause hair to stand on end when volatile Manna pulses bleed upward from deep-buried veins.
The Environment: Endless miles of rust-red, fine-grained sand dunes dotted with bizarre "rock forests"—clusters of wind-carved stone spires and petrified trunks that look like petrified trees. Sparse, thorny scrub-pine and tough, deep-rooted succulents survive in isolation across the cracked flats, providing the only cover for miles between the mountains and the central crater.