The Endless Desert - This is also known as Andanéya Lassë-n Atalta, which is Elvish for "Where the Leaves Once Fell." Once a lush world with vast oceans and animal life, now reduced to a barren hell-scape by The Great Undoing. For nearly 50 years the surface was effectively uninhabitable save for a few specific shelters such as the original grove. Over the past two centuries, many groups, mostly druidic circles, sought to make the world inhabitable again. Through druid-craft, traditional irrigation, or shear willpower areas were carved where forests could grow once more. The distance between areas suitable for this is vast however, and the safer airship travel only recently became common over the original method of dune riders - skiffs propelled via the powerful winds with giant canvas kites. Few surface dwellers survived The Great Undoing that made the world this way, but whatever did this left not even the underground untouched. Large areas simply collapsed and ceased to be in the Underdark, the event even blowing enough ground away from the originally Drow city of Twin-whispers to carve a sizeable opening directly to the surface above the city. The underground repercussions allowed many of those in forced servitude under the Drow to escape, forced to choose between the alien Underdark and hunters and the savage dunes above. The force of the blast did cause enough turbulance to effectively wash what little dry areas of the third Underdark layer and parts of the second layer away. The third layer became effectively fully submerged after several underground oceans and parts of the original world's oceans that weren't immediately undone drained into it. Of the surviving surface members, only a small amount of Hill Dwarves, several Dwarven Mountain Homes, a single but vast human city, a Yuan-Ti city of refugees, Goliath tribes shielded by dense mountains, the Minotaur tribes sheltered within 4 mesa's and short mountains of a rather verdant desert, and part of a High-Elven spire survived. Some Orcs survived due to inhabiting ancestral cave-based worship sites as well as Kobolds for similar reasons.