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Wandering merchants spew tales of the unimaginable blight of the Sothnk, coming up with new and unique ways to communicate the unutterable bleakness of Yunka’s southern border…

But to be completely fair and honest, Sothnk, the great desert of Southern Yunka, is a hotbed of propaganda shamelessly spoon-fed to the masses. With the threat of Lurzia growing in the west, The Yunkan throne can spare no men to defend its southern borders from the usual swathes of restless barbarians. So it lets traders flex their Midas tongues to muddy the reputation of the arid frontier as a cheeky form of tax evasion.

Yunka is truly a land of exploitable circumstances…

While the Sothnk would most certainly still kill you, it’s unlikely that your death with be the result of dehydration, starvation, or overexposure. In truth, the desert is thoughtfully sprinkled with oases and even some extensive tributary river systems rich with minerals. Unfortunately, due to the collective self-brainwashing of the mercantile, these vast stretches of sandy paradise remain largely uninhabited by humans. A Wilderness stewarded by the megafauna that have patrolled the same dunes and puddles for thousands of years, complacent in their gigantism.

30 foot crocodiles, 40 foot snakes, and carnivorous armadillians the size of horse-drawn carriages roam laboriously to and frow, routinely feeding on goats and other unremarkably sized mammalians. These beasts have grown jaded and particular in their gluttony. Armadillians, for example, prefer their prey in pancake form, often hunting by hurling their spheroid bodies down the dunes, flattening all in their wake.

It’s a tough life for these beasts, equipped with such formidable natural weapons with that have no real evolutionary purpose. I’d imagine that they spend their days basking in the emptiness of their own potential, desperate for a worthy challenger. Oh won’t you indulge them? The poor hapless souls...