Black Desert

The Black Desert was created thousands of years ago when the link volcanos all erupted in the cataclysmic event known as The Breaking. Lava spewed across the entire western flatlands, turning the once arid grasslands into a stone desert. As the winds of time have eroded the rocks, the lava field has slowly turned into a desert, as black as the lava rock, and still almost as sharp. Each day as the sun comes up, the sands heat up to hundreds of degrees, baking anything and anybody foolish enough to venture out across the sands.

The Eskazi
The Eskazi once lived in the arid grasslands, long before The Breaking. However, their cities were destroyed in the blast, leaving behind their knowledge and magic, deep under the lava sands.