Anauroch is the barren wasteland that dominates the North, a huge mass of
steppeland, rocky wastes and true desert that runs from the uttermost north
to the Lake of Dragons.
The great desert was not always so huge, and has grown remarkably in the past
millennium, driving savages, goblins, and other evil creatures further south
into the lands of humankind. Many human and elven kingdoms were swallowed by
the wastes, and their ruins remain buried beneath the sands.
* As the site of the fall of the Netherese, accessing the Weave here is
treacherous at the best of times.