Foundering Sands

The Foundering Sands are a sand-filled valley located at the south end of the Hall of the Wind in Raziya. Roughly bowl-shaped and surrounded by the stark sides of mountains, this depression contains great drifts of ochre sand that make travel through it extremely difficult. Blowing in from narrow openings on the north and south, the wind tends to get caught up in the bowl and whirls around inside it with great force, blowing up dust devils and sandstorms and shifting the dunes endlessly, such that mapping the area or maintaining trails through it is futile. Thus, although it is a place of rare and haunting beauty and only a short distance north of the Oyster Road, it is seldom visited. Contributing to people's general inclination to avoid the area is the rumor that the Foundering Sands are frequented by jinn, and house a hidden gateway to their mysterious kingdom.