Known in Scycaen as Jozh-Mirozhae and to Commoners as the "Cindersand Desert" or just the "Cindersands", this desert lay on the north coast of Scycae. Insulated from the mainland by the Cinderwall but exposed to the howling Wild Magic storms coming southward, the deserts were so named to the innate danger of their traversal. Seemingly-dormant pockets of sand could erupt in flares of magic, like inert but combustible cinders around a campfire.
Many merchants employed crews to brave the Cindersands desert storms in order to procure the Head of the Greatwyrm's rarest salts and other Substances, which sold for exorbitant prices. The most lucrative minerals were in the east, where many lives have been lost near the borders of the Sea of Clouds.