The Dust Bowel (Eastern Badlands)

The Dust Bowel is a region in the Mavve-Kechyo Territory. While considered synonymous with the Eastern Badlands, the Dust Bowel more specifically describes the large sandy basin and bordering dunes stretching south from Livewire.

Popular with sand sailors, the Dust Bowel is mostly loose sand and only has small pockets of larger sediments. This makes it ideal for the use of Gritfoils, which speeds up travel through the desert significantly. The region is void of any notable settlements, as the ground is too loose and unstable to support long-term tent living.

Anything that is lost in the Dust Bowel vanishes within seconds as it is buried beneath constantly shifting and cycling sands. Legends tell of great monsters, sometimes described as resembling the towering necks of glowwyrms, as the culprits behind the movement of the earth. Though, the most dangerous thing a sailor would have to worry about would be the bandits that frequent the region for it’s easy crossing.