The Bekelian Desert

Desert

Large barren and devoid of all but the hardiest of life. The war that destroyed this country centuries ago left it in a ravaged state it has never recovered from.

The bekelian play a unique game called storming sands.
A single dune rests in the center of the field, teams tehn must score on the opponents net while stopping the opponent from scoring in theres.

Common

The population is mostly nomadic, barbarian or those who have formed the sporadic cities.

Bronze, silver, and gold.

To survive is to endure and prosper, and the bekel always survive.

The bekel laws are common amongst mosst civilized places, inside the cities. Outside of the cities the lands tend to be barren and lawless

Dry, Hot

The bekel desert is surrounded on its northern and southern sides by a mountain range, and a sea on its eastern and western edges.

Hardy Plants, most crops are grown along the coast or near the mountains.

Hardy plants

The bekelian empire was formed 1000's of years ago. Back then the desert was a much more lush and life filled place. Oasis' and under water springs caused oasis' to cover much of the country. Bekelians quickly spread and could be found across the entire country.

After the war destroyed the climate and fractured the country. The population quickly feel to chaos and the desert took back many of the cities they had built.

Unknown. Documentation has been lsot

The last major war on Alvor was fought in the bekelian desert. History books tell of a great war. A civil war in the bekelian empire caused a civil collapse, and the winner was under the intention of pushing bekels boundaries and conquering much of the known world.

A unified from of the Free Bekelian People, supported by the Triumvirate, the Skitori, and teh Gaal allowed the country to finally crush the tyranical leader and restablish a civilized rule. However the magic unleashed in the final battel destroyed any remaining hopes for the bekel empire recovering, and fracture the Gaal landmass, almost seperateing the country in 2. A giant scar now crosses the land.

Magic users are much less common amonst the broken sands. The people of bekel used to rely on powerful crystals that resonated and stored magical energy, called phyrric crystals, Each crystal was tuned to its own branch of magic.

Now bekel magic weilders are typically born because there blood has been diluted with that of the Triumvirate. However, all bekelian citizens will carry a small phyrric shaard, that may store simple spells.

The bekelian desert is ruled by a dynasties. 4 once powerful dynasties spanned and controlled the desert. sharing and warring with each other.

1 main dynasty rules over the civilized aspects of The Shattered Sands, an amalgamation of the shattered remains of the dynasties left from the Shatter War.

Piamed
Heara
Xurenth
and Curotz

The current ruler is Garai, from the Xurenth Dynasty. His word is law, and while a council advises him, he has final say.
This is usually a given power, as the person in power is the one the people find most favourable, not by voting, but the peoples moods themselves. A vrown of white phyrric crystals adorn a crown the ruler wears. It glows a colour linked to the overall mood of there people.

most of the ruling class anc council live well, but the common people live ordinary lives.