Hello. C J here. Walking down the streets of Haven is not always as safe as the city would like people to think. Yes, they have curbed the banditry that plagues the Southern half of the Coastal Road. The Desert Princes whose cities dot the Southern coast of the Southern Continent if anything make the problem worse for themselves with their constant rivalries and politics. So no, a traveller in Haven or in the River Lands is unlikely to meet a bandit or other criminal sort.
But then there’s the walking dead to consider. Many of the basements, catacombs and landmarks of Haven have old foundations from before the city had its current name. In ages long past it was one of two competing capitols for the Desert Empire, both of which unified under the first Sand King of the Gold Dynasty, the God-Lion. It was never his place of residence and both the other capitol and the rest of the Desert Empire are long since buried under the dunes.
Well, people like to assume they’re buried. People would like to assume they will stay that way. Many of the structures in Haven have corridors, passages, or gates to the old city that predated it. This city is perfectly intact, completely underground and crawling with the minions of the Sand Kings. These undead and immortal lords of the desert dwell in their burial palaces far beneath the earth and deep into the land’s bedrock. Their servants are a constant problem for Haven and its landowners.
Rumour is that they’re on the move for the first time in almost ten thousand years. The recent activity has seen some of the skeletons and armoured bone knights wearing gold cloaks. This is a bad thing. The stronger rumour is that the God-Lion has returned from his time underground and that he’s seeking to unify the Sand Kings. If that happens then things are only going to get worse. And deeper, further into the vast network of underground tunnels, are the mythical palace cities built of gold.
C J Mcpherson
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