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Welcome to the Great Desert Dear Friends

 Hello. C J here. In my last post I mentioned that this blog will eventually be out of things I can blog about. This may take years though and for now it’s back to Minecraft. Well, sort of. I’m making my Fantasy Plus Minecraft server and it’s going well. The region we’re starting in has a history though. I don’t mean the development of the map has a history. I mean the setting has history. The region we’re starting in is Egypt themed. It has its own names, chronology and events.

Why don’t we continue this conversation in narrative voice.


Welcome friend. We’re here on the vast coast of the Southern Continent where it meets the Inner Ocean. Here history has been made several times. We’re only a few tens of kilometres from the old Desert Empire, not long ago fallen and forgotten to dust. Modern day nations like Haven and the River Lands lie to the Northeast along the curve of the coast here as it meets the Gold River. These cities are descendants of this great empire, but none more of it remains the way that it was. Well, we thought none of it was left.


Here is the view inland. Continue to the East and find the endless Great Desert, full of carrion birds, cacti and small but glittering oasis where life holds itself to the rock beneath. The land is not empty. The Desert Empire left something for the modern world, knowing its time of glory would eventually end. Their people were enchanted as they died and their vast burial cities were built under the desert sands to hold them. These continent-spanning temples and palaces went deeper and deeper as the empire continued its reign. They were filled with gold, gems and light.

Then, when their time was ending, the dead began to replace the living. The gold armoured skeletons of the Land of the Dead, as their old heartland is now called, are a rising threat to Haven and the River Lands around it. The mayor of Haven, one of the greatest cities on any continent, has sent several teams of townsfolk into the Great Desert to find the source of the rising waves of skeletons and knights of bone. None returned.

Will you?

C J Mcpherson

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