Mountains
Upland covered in thin, dusty soil with waist high grass and brightly colored flowers.
Small, scattered stands of thorny cacti clustered in narrow crevasses in the stony slopes.
The steeply carved channels of seasonal waterways, filled with jumbled stone and gravel.
Tenacious trees, their trunks twisted into corkscrew patterns by the brutal winds.
Crumbling stone rising from the earth, surrounded by patches of stone and gravel.
Landscape of worn, round stone, with thickets of brush and cacti growing from cracks and depressions.
Steep, stony slopes rising from the trail below, the crests topped with densely packed brush.
Large, broken boulders tumbled around the landscape.
Sloping landscape of broken stone and gravel, providing treacherous footing.
A landscape of sharp, buckled ridges, shattered arches, and twisted spires.
Rocky Badlands
A rolling landscape of crumbling stone and gravel, spilling into sudden gorges and cliff faces.
Steep slopes and crags of worn stone, their faces gouged with narrow fissures and clefts.
Expanses of smoothly worn stone, colored in bright bands of sedimentary deposit.
A maze of narrow, stony canyons and cliffs, the ancient stone carved by wind and water.
Tufts of verdant green grasses and shrubs growing from isolated fissures and clefts hidden amidst the stony landscape.
A flat and sandy canyon bottom, a refuge from the torturous landscape around it.
Broken, jagged boulders jumbled at the base of cliffs, sheared away from the weary stone by wind and time.
Dense thickets of thorny scrub and cacti growing from the recesses of narrow fissures carved in the landscape.
A rolling expanse of smooth stone, resembling stony waves forever frozen in time.
A massive boulder, standing in brooding isolation amidst the broken terrain around it.
Salt Flats
A flat expanse of sunbaked salt, the surface carved into small, geometric shapes by small cracks.
Low, irregular formations of salt, shaped like molten glass, rising from the salt-crusted surface.
Shallow, incredibly briny water an inch or two deep, its surface gleaming like a mirror under the relentless sun.
Isolated tufts of incredibly hardy, wiry scrub, the vegetation mottled white with windblown salt.
Jumbled boulders that break the monotony of the flat, their rounded surfaces seemingly braced against the constant wind.
Foul, shallow puddles of water laden with toxic salts, capable of burning any exposed flesh unlucky enough to touch it.
Wind-blown patches of hard-packed soil, the brown earth etched with white salt in its recesses.
Low ridges that form islands amidst the sea of salt around it, their stony surfaces crowded with a panoply of cacti and shrubs.
Broken rocks and boulders studding the otherwise flat landscape, their surfaces worn smooth by time.
A great monolith of stone standing dozens of feet above the flat plain, it’s steep cliffs stained white with salt, it’s isolate summit crowded with shrubs and twisted trees.
Sandy Wastes
Long, undulating ridges of sand, creased by steep, narrow defiles.
Errant ‘sand devils’ that rise and fall without warning, plumes of loose sand whipped into the atmosphere by stray gusts of wind.
Low, eroded outcroppings of rock rising from the shifting sands like the backs of half-buried beasts.
Flat, desolate expanses of loose sand, the surface dappled with widely scattered stones and gravel.
A rolling sandscape of low, rippling dunes, creating a rumpled carpet of gentle, shifting slopes.
Tufts of brittle, wiry grass and cacti loosely clumped together, the tallest thickets rising waist high.
The short, squat trunks of dormant trees, their stubby branches rising skywards. Clad in thick, rock-like bark, the trees sleep for decades between rains.
Remnants of ancient buildings, reduced to little more than broken bits of foundation and toppled columns, peeking from the slowly suffocating sand.
Broken stone rising from the sands in great outcroppings, the wind having carved the stone into fantastic arches and spires.
Yellowed salt grass clinging to the bases of steeply sloping sand dunes in tenacious little clusters.
Scrub Plains
Strange, stubby trees sparsely spread over an expanse of low-laying scrub growing from a sandy soil.
A gently undulating landscape, studded with crumbling rock outcrops and tenacious, knee-high plants clinging to the soil.
A variegated landscape of scrub, with the local flora contributing a palette of colors from old bone to olive-green.
Clusters of greener, leafier plants rising from the dry, yellowed brush dominating the landscape.
Groups of bulbous, brightly flowered cacti sitting like over-ripe blisters amidst a background of broken, browned vegetation.
Thickets of green vegetation erupting from the dusty brush, harboring small stunted trees and bizarre cacti.
Thousands of tiny, white and yellow flowers peeking from the low-lying brown scrub, dotting the landscape with mottled color.
Ancient streambeds cutting deep gouges into the worn stone.
Low growing, widely spread trees spreading their wiry branches towards the omnipresent sun on a baked plain.
Endless flat expanses of sand and worn stone, with nothing to break the monotony than scrubby, patches of brush rising less than a few inches from the soil.
Stony Barrens
Loose, jumbled stones and boulders laying haphazardly across the landscape.
Thickets of wiry scrub and small cacti sprouting from the bases of crumbling, rocky outcrops.
Great, broken slabs of broken stone riven by sharp, narrow fissures and the courses of ancient waterways.
A flat, empty expanse with small, jagged stones strewn amidst clumps of low, huddled shrubs.
Flat, sandy soil dotted with tufts of waist-high weeds and stunted, wind-twisted trees.
Rolling, heaving landscape of gravel- and boulder-strewn slopes, with dense tangles of shrubs and cacti growing in the grottos between peaks.
Tall, sentinel cacti erupting from the broken stone and sands, with tangled clumps of smaller shrubs and cacti around them.
Massive, eroded stone formations rising from the surrounding landscape, their steep faces creased by erosion.
A torturous expanse of wind-sheared stone, forming a treacherous terrain of sharp spires and deep, hidden fissures.
Solitary, rounded boulders standing isolated amongst a broken plain.