Desert-Folk

A people-group from the Dustsong Cycle

Desert-folk, sometimes also known as the Children of Dust, inhabited the wandering wastes east of the mountains called the Fangs of Livyat. In the elder days of the First Epoch, prior to the arrival of Len the Wanderer, they roamed the wastes in decentralized clan-groups. The clans that Len encountered were the Camel Lords, the Sand Folk, the Wind Hunters, the Sons of the Prowler, the Children of the Palm, Waetii’s Folk, the Scions of the Dawn, the Children of the Sunset Dunes, the Stone Pickers, the Bone Jackals, Dubrhos’s Wanderers, the Roses of the Wastes, and the Desert Stars. Dromedaries, including the giant hump-backed beasts of the Camel Lords, featured heavily in many clans’ way of life, from clothing and shelter to food and transportation. By the late First Epoch, desert-folk influence was pervasive throughout the central Fangs region.