Kalahese Desert

This searing badland dominates northern Vespis, expanding out from the central and western wastes into a dry savannah in the east. The Kalahese sees very little actual rainfall, and the soil in its western expanse is too Alkaline to sustain most life. Water in the west is notable for having a very metalic taste to it due to the deserts soil content.

Geography
The Kalahese is dominated mostly desolate wasteland which is cracked and dry, consisting mostly of flat stretches of land enclosed by the surrounding mountains to the west and a wind swept savannah on its east. The soil in the west is high in alkali content making vast stretches mostly sterile. At its western extent it becomes a large high elevation plain revered to mostly as a dustbowl. In rare climatic times the region blooms and becomes verdant save for the alkali flats.

The Dustbowl
The dustbowl is a vast lowland plain that borders the Kal'nar savannah and the High Plain Badlands. Periodically winds rise up and vast duststorms pick up from the plain and are blown south and east towards the Calen Expanse and the Danakel Mountains. Dust storms from here have reached as far as the Sea of Mizore.

Alkali Flats
Making up the far west, the soil is high in Alkali content making them especially infertile and toxic.

Nazjar River
The great river flows through the Kal'nar plains and has its true origins in small creeks that flow from the snow caps of the Danakel mountains down into the river basin and grasslands giving the Kalahese its one main water source.

Settlements
The region is mostly devided up by semi-nomadic caliphates of wandering herdsmen who keep to the Kal'nar grasslands and grazing lands to the east and border with the Calen Expanse. However a few small notable cities do exist in this somwhat baren waste, Sayha, Khara and the glass city of Sarnesh all stand within this area. At one extend or another. With the exception of Sarnesh, most of these are little more then watering hole settlements along the great Nazjar river that forms from the springs in the Danakel Mountains.

Sarnesh
Sarnesh stands as the princely capital along the Nazjar river, holding over the great Caliphate of Sarnesh. Its trade markets and thriving mercantile ports holds itself high as the jewel of the western world. Sarnesh holds a vast trade network linking the west coast of Vespis with the Calen Expanse and it control the Kalahese desert.