Oor Desert

Pronounced Uh-er. A massive desert twice the size of the African Sahara, but with an ecosystem closer to the American Southwest. The desert is home to the Beat Lizards, a race of sentient lizards, and is sparsely populated otherwise. There are no cities in the Oor, the only settlements being small port towns frequented by Wablans who don't want to be found. The Beat Lizards maintain a loose social order, letting the other Wablans mostly mind their own affairs, only stepping in during extreme situations. Many of the more unstable Drips appear in the Oor, and the Drip Miners that seek them are akin to storm chasers on Earth. Generally, Oor attracts wild, chaotic people who aren't at home in the more settled areas of Wable. Among these people are sometimes criminals, and though the Beat Lizards are generally ambivalent to the laws of other Wablan societies, Beat Lizards will engage in bounty hunting if the criminal is violent or dangerous enough. Oor is a member of the Federation of Unincorporated Communities. Oor has strange auditory properties, sometimes allowing a listener to hear conversations occurring miles away, and in some areas, making face to face conversations almost impossible. Audio Drips in the Oor are common as well, giving Wablans random, disorienting access to Earth sounds.