Although
it gets typical amounts of rainfall, the Diony Desert is utterly arid. Overcome
with diony plants, their seeds aggressively leech any and all moisture from
the earth. Few animals can survive in the habitat, save those who feed on
the plant itself. One creature unique to the area is the archituethus occipitus,
or 'jumper' (Commonly referred to as a brain squid). Although they can be
found at random throughout the Anduruna region, the jumper squid can apparently
feed only in the northwest corner of the desert, where lunarous runoff from
the Starfall mixes with the diony to create strange fumes that seem to nourish
these bizarre hovering creatures. Dreamkeepers have used the desert to forage
diony seeds for centuries. Although the area is traversable with enough
water stores, rare is the individual who will venture across. Extended expeditions
have historically met with failure, due in no small part to unseen bandits
that apparently lurk beyond the desert.
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