Deserts are dry, barren regions, usually sparsely inhabited.
Background[]
It is a misconception that all deserts are hot. The Arctic, for instance, is considered a desert by some scientists--the air is dry with little or no precipitation. Few live there, the conditions are so harsh. On the other hand, in the Other World they often build cities in the deserts, piping in water and conditioning the air in order to make the places inhabitable. Many call this progress. Others call it Phoenix, Tuscon, Las Vegas, Barstow, or LA.
In Daventry there are many deserts, usually hot and dry, and usually endless. This is likely a property of the universe itself; always inventing itself, the edges of the world must blur and seem to go on forever.[1] An Endless Desert can also be found in the Realm of Eldritch another world of the Multiverse.
In the Green Isles, islands come and go; some transmogrify from wood to jungle to desert to mountain to sea.[2]
According to one map of Kolyma in a region south of the mountains and the chasm just outside of the Magical law of "containment" is a grove of palm trees, while palms are known to grow along the western shore, and possibly beyond the mountains in eastern Kolyma as well. This grove indicates that they also grow to the south possibly along the southern beaches or that it is an oasis ons a southern desert.
One story speaks of the witch Gothel finding out about the prince visiting Repunzel, so she cut off the maiden's golden tresses and stranded her in the middle of the desert. When the prince arrived to visit the princess again, the evil hag was waiting for him. She attacked him and he fell into some brambles, which scratched his eyes and blinded him.
The prince wandered the world blind for many years, always searching for the voice of his beloved. Finally he groped his way through the desert in the hope that she was there. She was, of course, living with her twin children in the barren wasteland. They were reunited, and so strong was their love that her tears of joy restored the prince's sight. They returned in happiness to his kingdom and lived happily ever after.
Deserts[]
- Endless Desert of Serenia
- The Desert of Eldritch (Huitzilipopuatlateknahualimoatlicue Desert)
- Medusa Desert
- Cursed desert
- Shipwreck Island ("desert island")
Behind the scenes[]
Hakim exclaims "By the desert sands!", but there is no information to which desert he refers to. It maybe one of the unknown 'desert' islands that are said to appear in the Green Isles.
See Deserts (unofficial) for information from the fan games.