Room record / VNUM 5070
Sandstone Monoliths
Xixieqi Sands (Aralius) / Desert / 4 exits.Show on the interactive map(JSON record)
Description
You are standing in a desert valley. All around you, gigantic pillars of weathered sandstone spike high into the air, casting cooler shadows on the groundling pear cacti beneath them. Looking around you, you notice that water-weathered rocks line this valley, as though this was an ancient streambed that was consumed by desert heat. The monoliths themselves are wonderous. Rising nearly a thousand feet in the air, these red and yellow-banded titans are all that remain of a prehistoric mountain range, judging by the symmetry of the remaining spires. Time, weather, and wind appear to have blown holes through these ancient mountain walls, leaving the banded monoliths you see throughout the east. To the north the desert gives way to the ocean, where more of the monolithic spires rise against you, while to the south and west, the sandstone pillars decay into the desert sands. The scent of the sea is powerful here. The ocean must lay to the north, behind the sandstone giants.