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The Hanwang (寒亡沙漠) desert, the "Cold Death," is a desert in the Northern Earth Kingdom, West of Ba Sing Se. It is smaller than the hotter and more southerly Siwang desert. It is also called Hantan (寒滩), the Cold Sands, by the Sandbender tribes. Although it is described as being Cold, and indeed is very cold at night and in the Winter, the Hanwang can also be dangerously hot during Summer afternoons, with daytime highs regularly reaching 45 degrees Celsius at that time of year.
List of Places in the Hanwang Desert
滿月泉 |
Full Moon Spring |
An oasis town featuring a round spring. |
大堡綠洲 |
Dabaolüzhou |
A large fortress protecting an oasis, built in the days of the Great Ri. |
孟泉 |
Mengquan |
An oasis and surrounding town said to be the first oasis by the Sandbending tribes, important in their mythic history. |
馬鳥綠洲 |
Matuolüzhou |
Ostrich Horse oasis, named for a feral herd of these animals that formerly inhabited it. |
細泉 |
Xiquan |
A small oasis community. |
中綠洲 |
Zhonglüzhou |
An oasis town at an important crossroads. |
军泉 |
Junquan |
An oasis that was uninhabited until Hao-Ting soldiers fortified it about a hundred years ago to supply a nearby fort. |
八只水袋泉 |
Bazhishuidai Spring |
"Eight Watersacks Spring," named for the number each person ought to have with them to be assured of making it to the next oasis. |
小西泉 |
Little Western Spring |
A small oasis community in the far West of the Hanwang Desert. |
遥绿洲 |
Yao Oasis |
An oasis in the far East of the desert, unconnected to any of the others by roads. |
绿洲路 |
Oasis Road |
A road through the Hanwang desert, connecting a line of oasis communities. |
绿洲路 |
Oasis Road |
A road through the Hanwang desert, connecting a line of oasis communities. |
隔堡垒 |
Fort Ge |
A major fortress separating the Hanwang from Abka lands. Originally protected a hard-won conquest of the Central Earth Kingdom (the Western Bank of the Ostrich Horse River |
江堡垒 |
River Fort |
A fort guarding a bridge, mostly used by Abka nomads these days, though some amount of trade between the Montane Yonggan and Ba Sing Se uses the associated bridge. |
小山堡 |
Hill Fort |
A fort on the extreme East of the Hanwang, with a commanding view of the desert perimeter road. |
馬鳥江 |
Ostrich Horse River |
A larger river, fed mostly by tributaries arising in Eastern Abka lands and in the mountains of the Nemuland, which empties into the brackish Western Lake. |
