Talk:Western Desert

Hello,

It's the firtm time i do this, but I hope sending this message is how things work.

The information I just removed it's because it was wrong. I'll give you the arguments:

1. It is said "the Fallaji themselves thought the land to be cursed and avoided it. The inhospitable climate, rough terrain, and dangerous predators of the desert were part of the reason why Koilos remained undiscovered for millennia, despite its relative closeness to Argive"

The fount of this text is, supposedly "Jeff Grubb - The Brothers' War (novel) (1998), Wizards of the Coast", but that it's false. I just read the book and the are 0 mentions of the Western Desert. The only desert mentioned is the Great Desert. You can check it without reading the entire book, just searching "Western Desert" in a pdf version.

Also, the book has a text very similar to this, but refers to the Kher Ridges: "The high mountains, however, the inner mountains themselves, are dangerous, and not only for the great ruq-birds found there. We claim them as Fallaji territory, but we do not visit them. Nor do we recommend others do so".

2. This area was once the center of the forgotten Thran Empire, but by the time of the Brothers, little was left of that realm but sand and craggy mountains”

There is no a story fount specified for this piece of text, but in Jeff Grubb - The Brothers', it is said, several times and by different characters that the "center of the Thran Empire" is Koilos (which is between Kher Ridges and Sardian Mountains, not in the Western Desert).

3. The Western Desert can not be that "inhospitable" and "dangerous" because it's where Tocasia's School was located (there is not a direct mention for that in the book, but in the ever first made Terisiare map the School was near Argive. Also, the camp was in a desert at the south of Koilos as said in the book, and that should be the Western Desert).

Conclusion: The information I edited is incorrect. I think whoever wrote this wiki entrance mixed Kher Ridges with Western Desert, and give the desert properties described in the novel for the Khel Ridges. Also, in the novel the character Ahmals makes a clear distinction between the desert and the mountain, when he explains they can dig the desert but not the mountains. So Kher Ridges and Western Desert are very different things.

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