Located
southeast of Ar, below the eastern foothills of the Voltai, and to the south is the Tahari. This is a desert area also known
as the Wastes, or the Emptiness.
It
is shaped like a gigantic, lengthy trapezoid with eastward leaning sides. At its northwest corner is Tor. The area east of
Tor is hundreds of pasangs in depth, maybe thousands. It is generally rocky and hilly, save in the dune country.
It
is almost constantly windblown by a hot wind and waterless. There are oases fed from underground rivers flowing southeast
from the Voltai range. The water erupts in oases springs or is reached by deep well, down to two hundred feet. The day temperatures
in the shade are 120 degrees.
The
oasis communities number from a hundred to thousands of people and are often hundreds of pasangs apart from each other. They
depend on caravans for their needs.
