Avaras

NOTE: The following material is not TSR or WotC canon. Avaras is a Prime sphere created with the collaboration of several players of SPL.

Prime Material Plane
System:	Unknown
Factions Present:	None

A planet located in an unknown crystal sphere, Avaras is a largely-inhospitable desert world. A blazing sun bakes the place with heat during long days, from which the only respite are short nights. Only the two poles of the planet are at all capable of supporting sustained life above ground, and between them is a great sea of sand, dotted with cliffs, huge dunes, and cave-laced rocky hills. Most on this world say that the sands of Avaras are timeless and everlasting, but sages say that it was once a verdant paradise, ruled by a global empire of benevolent intent and towering feats of arcana. Those sages might be right, because anyone able to actually traverse the deep sands would come upon hulking edifices, crumbling ruins, and desiccated riverbeds from a bygone epoch.

Travel between Avaras and other planes is extremely limited, as the place has only two known portals. The first is a massive arch crafted from the bones of extinct creatures from some forgotten era of Avarasi history, and resides atop an ancient pyramid in the necropolis of Korth. The second is a massive, shadowstuff-infused chasm amidst the deepest reaches of the sand sea, near the planet's equator, called The Maw. There aren't many Avarasi planewalkers, for a variety of reasons, and the Avarasi guard their portals formidably on their home soil - anything that emerges is put to the sword in short order. Plane Shift and Gate magics operate fine between Avaras and the rest of the multiverse, but almost no one knows about the place, so it's unlikely there's much of that going on.