Great Hazari Desert

The Great Hazari Desert is a huge expanse of extremely arid land that spands northern Idiri from the Great Stormy Sea in the west of the continent to the Gulf of Adwa in the east. It is a perilous land and only thinly populated, but numerous trade routes crisscross it from north to south, connecting the two halves of Idiri and conveying both goods and people across the continent.

People

Only a scattering of people truly call the Hazari home, most of them clustered around wells and oases on the desert plain, or eking out a no less precarious existence in the massifs and mountains that rise above the flatlands. The vast majority of these full-time residents are Tessouare and Razmani, with some others of Bissenke heritage settled along the desert's western fringes. Nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralism is common among the Tessouare, along with limited farming around oases and at higher elevations. The Razmani are most commonly farmers dwelling along canyonsides above springs or seasonal water courses, and also often perform mining work for ore, gems, and salt.

Also found in the Hazari Desert are wandering tribes of the Angrosh people, who tend to reside in those places that are commonly considered uninhabitable by humans. Hazari-dwelling Angrosh are expert survivalists who tend to follow a simple lifestyle of hunting and foraging, but they are also known and feared for occasionally carrying out raids on settlements and, most frequently, on caravans passing through the wastes.

Besides those few who call the Hazari home, most people to be found in the desert are associated with these caravans making their perilous way from one side of the waste to the other. Many Sirdabi are involved in this trade, along with Tessere, Razmani, Bissenke, and Xhalantu from both the north and south of Idiri.