Sacred Sands

Like its name suggests, Sacred Sands is a desert where life rarely thrives. However due to the plethora of rare minerals, including one of the materials needed to produce Adamantine, settlements and cities still exist within. The main threat of these lands beyond being an inhospitable desert are the giant sandworms that will often swallow groups whole. For this reason most of new cities are formed from groups of slaves sent out by the caliphate, to mitigate loss if they were killed. Transportation like Sandsails and pseudo airships are used to avoid the sandworms completely, the Sandsails being fairly cheap but only able to carry limited cargo. However in the capital of the Sacred Sands, on top of a tower, is a giant that keeps sandworms as well as invaders out by shooting them from insane distances with arrows of a similarly gigantic size.

Magic is seen in very high regard in the Sacred Sands, to the point mages are the ruling caste. Due to the constant threat the sandworms and other calamities bring, the Sacred Sands are always in high demand of slaves to do the dirty work, and have most them imported from other areas to get that work done.