The Undead Sands or the Sahra al-Mawti (मरणमरुस्थल or صحراء الموت) and the Shhai Rocks are a narrow stretch of wastelands in northern Eqos. These lands are now marked by black soil and sparse vegetation, but once used to be a grassy coastline in the first era known as the Ghreh Coast. Sharp rocks mark the coastline that make it hard for any ship to sail too close to the coast. The Km’mala Peaks dominate most of the landscape, and the only two connections to the rest of Eqos are a small western strip connecting to the Goldheim Rainforest and the open sands in the east connecting to the Kav’orra Desert, divided partly by the Veiled Wall constructed to keep the undeath out.

Fear and mythology permeates this area, as most peoples of the world consider it to be cursed and a land of necromancy and undeath. This land, controlled by the faction known as al-Shhubus, only has four settlements, the largest of which is synonymous with the region itself—Alphanim, also known as al-Fahim. The city of dark magic and undeath is legendary across the world. Other than people who are drawn to forbidden arcana and necromancy, no one else seems to live in this land as far as most people would know. There are regular tribes of dune-orcs and dragonborn alike who try to live a normal existence in this area, but most of this population is constantly challenged by the miasma of undeath that permeates the coast.

In the first era, this land was a dry grassland with some streams of water flourishing it with life. The Ghreh Coast was controlled by a small kingdom centered on the city of Vetalo. The Kingdom of Vetalo was a major port and a naval powerhouse for centuries, until 1E578 when the “darkness” consumed the land. The city of Vetalo was swallowed up by the sands, and all greenery turned to ash as death swept across the coastline. The last Rajan of Vetalo, Prince Alric, disappeared alongside his city trying to save it from destruction. Not much later, the city of al-Fahim was founded later by undead forces in the name of Mawekh. The god of undeath, Mawekh, is said to have opened a portal to the negative energy plane within the region upon his resurrection as a lich-god in the early second era. Though the ruin of the coast is not attributed to him initially, he certainly worsened the darkness and took ownership of it later.