Athas - The Dark Sun World

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Athas is a desert‐sun‐scorched and wind‐scoured, parched and endless, but that does not mean that the landscape is monotonous. Far from it; over each hill, behind each dune, the terrain is more awesome, more spectacular, and more beautiful than any one has seen before. North or south, east or west, Athas contains natural wonders and dangers undreamed of on other worlds.
Storms blow in from the Sea of Silt, walls of pearly dust billow ten thousand feet into the air, then come roiling ashore like a mountain range crashing down about unwary travelers. There are hundreds of different kinds of terrain on Athas, from wind‐scoured pebble flats to twisted badlands canyons to gleaming sands to jumbled boulder fields.

Athas is still a largely unknown world. Millennia of misinformation, wars, and natural barriers have created isolated pockets of civilization between large expanses of desert terrain.
The known world is currently divided into the Silt Sea, the Tablelands (also known as the Tyr Region), the Ringing Mountains, and the Hinterlands. The Tyr Region is defined as the area bordered by the Sea of Silt on the east, the Hinterlands to the west, and the Endless Sand Dunes to the south.
The surface of Athas stretches from horizon to horizon, a patchwork of fields and forests, oceans (of water and sand) and mountains, deserts, swamps, jungles, and more. Beneath the crimson sun, Athas’ varied environments give way one to another across the Tablelands. Mountains rise, valleys fall, and desert surrounds the land.

Athas is a desert sun scorched and windscoured parched end endless.From the first moments of dawn until the last twinkling of dusk, the crimson sun shimmers in the olive tinged sky like a fiery puddle of blood. It climbs toward its zenith and the temperatures rises relentlessly 100 degrees by midmorning 110 degrees fahrenheit at noon 130 degrees F sometimes even 150 degrees F afternoon. ( 20grad = 68 fahrenheit).
A man cannot drink fast enough to replenish the fluids he loses.As the day drags on he feels sick and feeble.If he does not have enough water he grows too weak to move.His mouth becomes dry and bitter his lips,tongue and throat grow swollen.Before long his blood is thick and glummy.His heart must work hard to circulate it.Finally his system overheats leaving him dead and alone in the sands.The wind does little help matters.As hot as a forges breath it blows up sandstorms that last 5o days at a stretch speeding the evaporation of water from skin and soil alike.A storm can darken the sky at high noonn carrying so much sand that it reduces visibility to a pace.
Breezes on Athas are suffocating and dust laden caking everyything they touch with yellow orange silt spoiling food and filling a mans eyes with pasty mud.Even still days are perilous.Collums of superheated air can rush upward in terrific whirlwinds carrying dust plants and man to great heights then suddenly dying away and leaving their reluctant passangers to fall to a horrible death.
As dangerous as it is the wind is merely an inconvenience when compared to the greatest danger of athas – the lack of water.In most places it rains no more than 1 per year.In some places it only rains once in 10 years and the only available water lies in brakish mineral crusted oasis ponds.Aside from a handfull of streams that trickle less than fifty miles before drying up there is not a single river on the planet.The lack of water can mean a thirsty man but the dry climate affects athas in other ways.It allows the sun to shine down unreflected on the barren ground which is why it grows so hot during the day.