From the formation of dunes to the animals that live in such arid conditions, deserts provide fantastic opportunities to enrich your world. Let’s take a look at some of the things you can do with deserts in fantasy worldbuilding!
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0:00 Deserts are awesome
1:09 Deserts Defined
4:15 It’s rough and coarse and awesome?
9:06 Sand and Animals
13:03 Water!
19:22 Desert Flora
23:44 More Fauna
26:02 Super Adaption
29:31 Desert Magic
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I loved this episode! I do hope you do the other deserts also 🏜 ☺️😇
When it comes to Desert Magic I think it would be really interesting to become one with the Sands like in The Mummy and you could read materialize whenever you want it
Those lizards you mentioned swimming through the sands I would love to see giant lizards that you can ride
You should do more videos on Polar deserts never heard of them until now
What do you think about the idea of fog harvesting to gain water
I think it would be cool in the fantasy world to have a mega Oasis that was just an oasis
Humanoid lizards swimming through the Sands with ease imagine how much money they can make is Mercenaries
Great video, I’d love to see you cover jungles/tropical rain forests next. They’re environments that we rarely see depicted in fantasy series
Just what I needed for a worldbuilding region I am doing.
Camels are indeed amazing – I used to own 3. They are highly intelligent – more so than horses. And they provide, milk, wool, meat and leather; they are cavalry, beasts of burden, they have amazing endurance, as you point out as per food and water and heat. And the weight they cam carry is amazing. The first piano brought to Alice Springs in the middle of Australia was by camel. But you have to spread the load evenly, so it had to carry the piano on one side, and the equivalent weight on the other!
They are notorious for the bad temper – spitting, biting lashing out. This is almost totally due to the way they are trained and treated. The quickest way to get the to sit ("Hoosh") is to pull on their reins and hit them in the nose. This way you can train them in less than a week, but they are the crankiest of animals – because they are actually afraid. If you spend time, then it may take 3-4 months to train, but they are your friends. Not surprisingly, the Middle East treat their animals as animals rather than companions – except for the Bedoiun nomads. And Australia has the world's largest, and healthiest, camel population in the world – brought their by the Afghan cameleers in the 19th century to be the transport between north and south Australia.
The DND Dark Sun Setting from 2e and 4e have this type of magic that pulls the life out of the earth and create deserts
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