Table of contents
Ormas.................................................................................... 84
Ever-Changing Dangers .................................................. 108
Wind Storms...................................................................... 108
Pacheodon............................................................................ 84
Patnu ..................................................................................... 85
Flash Floods ....................................................................... 108
Land Storms ...................................................................... 108
Pavouk .................................................................................. 85
Obsidian Mountains ......................................................... 109
Pharanor ..............................................................................86
Fire Rain ............................................................................. 109
Rhojess.................................................................................. 87
Ghost Lightning ................................................................ 109
Shomik.................................................................................. 87
Syradar ................................................................................. 87
Minute Terrors.................................................................... 110
Bone Fleas ........................................................................... 110
Teleris....................................................................................88
Sand Ticks ........................................................................... 110
Torqal.....................................................................................88
Tukka Falk .............................................................................88
Umber Aphids .................................................................... 110
Caravans .............................................................................. 110
Wani Chereet.......................................................................90
The Caravan Masters ...........................................................111
Wharia ..................................................................................90
Caravan Personnel ...............................................................111
Map of Khitus ............................................................91-99
Caravan Beasts ....................................................................112
Chapter 5: Traversing the Wastelands .......................... 100

Caravan Wagons & Vehicles .............................................112
Natural Geography & Terrain ......................................... 100
Caravan Followers ...............................................................112
Dunes .................................................................................. 100
Common Caravan Statistics ..............................................113
Boulder Fields ................................................................... 100
Travel’s Enemies ..................................................................113
Dust Bowls .......................................................................... 101
Progress & Speed ................................................................113
Salt Flats .............................................................................. 101
Hijackers...............................................................................114
Cracked Sea Floors............................................................. 101
Major Sites of Interest ........................................................114
Natural Flora....................................................................... 101
Floating Earth Motes..........................................................114
Trees ..................................................................................... 101
Mornuus ...............................................................................115
Bushes ................................................................................. 101
The Pock & Environs ..........................................................116
Cacti .....................................................................................102
Origins ..................................................................................117
Succulents ..........................................................................102
The Pock ...............................................................................118
Metal Scarcity ....................................................................102
Blood River & The Scab .....................................................118
The Iron Virus ....................................................................102
Grarraque’s Rest ..................................................................118
Ganshyer, the Black Steel .................................................103
The Vermilion Crater .........................................................119
Persistent Dangers.............................................................103

Dust Wells ...........................................................................103 Chapter 6: Traces of the Daragkarik ...............................121
Mud Geysers .......................................................................103
Shagnathrix – The Dark Maiden of the Abyss ..................121
Quicksand ...........................................................................104
Origin of a Daragkark.........................................................121
Silent Burial .......................................................................104
Her Doomed Offspring ..................................................... 122
Sinkholes.............................................................................104
Her Black Knights .............................................................. 123
Personal Dangers .............................................................. 105
The Black Hands ................................................................ 123
Dehydration ...................................................................... 105
Chroma’ano the Blood-Borne ......................................... 123
Hesheyel, the Water Spice .............................................. 105
Hearts of Light & Shadow ................................................. 124
Exposure ............................................................................. 106
Shadow Continued: The Vittarrans ................................ 124
Oases ................................................................................... 106
Light Continued: The Trakeen of Chroma’ano ...................125
Wadi .................................................................................... 106
Kathuray & the Voices on the Wind ...............................125
Getting Lost and Desert Hallucinations........................ 106
Dreams of a Daragkark .....................................................126
Mysteries of Moments ..................................................... 106
To Worship a Dream ..........................................................126
Rekak’s Agony ..................................................................... 127
Mysteries of Space & Time ...............................................107
The First True Believers.................................................... 127
Wasteland Watchers..........................................................107
Mirages............................................................................... 108

Sharing His Pain ................................................................ 127
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