Bright Desert

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Bright Desert is a fictional desert located in the central Flanaess. The Bright Desert is independent of the control of any external nation, and has been significantly organized under the control of Rary the Traitor, though its enemies (among whom it counts The Free City of Greyhawk, The Duchy of Urnst, and The Circle of Eight) do not acknowledge it as a nation.

The Bright Desert extends from the Abbor-Alz (a rugged range of hills) to the north and east to the Woolly Bay to the west, and to the Sea of Gearnat to the south.

The desert itself gives way to scrub near the Abbor-Alz.

Temperatures in the desert can reach 120 °F and can dip into the low 30s°F during the night. Sandstorms are not uncommon.

It contains only one major geographical feature, the Brass Hills in its south-western region.

The Bright Desert is inhabited by Flan and Suel) tribesmen, as well as centaurs, manscorpions, and dune stalkers.

The Bright Desert contains only one major geographical feature, the Brass Hills in its south-western region.

Ulbakak, a neutral oasis and trade village, lies in the west.

The Bright Desert was once a fertile land occupied by a number of nations, the most powerful being Sulm and Itar. In -700 CY, the Kingdom of Sulm was destroyed by its last king, Shattados, who used the power of a dark artifact known as the Scorpion Crown in an attempt to gain perpetual dominion over his subjects. Instead, the crown turned Shattados into a gigantic scorpion, and his people into manscorpions and dune stalkers. The land itself was even changed, transformed into a vast wasteland now known as the Bright Desert.

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