The Lament



The Lament is a massive desert that takes up the majority of the central area of the continent. Traveling across it is dangerous due to the presence of lingering ghosts which possess people at night. the ghosts are not malicious, but they are known to cause people to wander off and get lost in the desert. When dawn comes the possession ends, leaving the possessed with no memory of the night before.

Many caravans and traders travel The Lament, but only the outskirts, avoiding the interior of the desert due to it being unmapped and full of dangerous magical creatures.

The only people who spend any long periods in The Lament are the Chroniclers, a group of nomadic historians who purposely get possessed to question the ghosts about the history before The Shattering.