The shifting sands of the Choking Wastes lie just south of Teggedell, a sprawl of shifting sand that nearly reaches the Summer Sea before cliffs hem in its borders. Golden, red and even black, the sands have a strange heat-retention, burning beneath the endless sky and only barely cooling at night. Here, the winds carry the sands to mix and shift, stinging the eyes and clogging the lungs of any who dare to pass through. Sometimes, huge bones can be found poking out of the sand closer to Rothmos Burial Ground, suggesting that the giant's graveyard was once much bigger, before the Choking Wastes claimed more territory for itself. There are no permanent landmarks for this stretch of desert; any who travel without getting hopelessly lost are guided by the sun and stars. When the heat is at its worst, many simply burrow into the sands to wait it out; get deep enough into a dune, and it may stay cool enough for you to survive--as long as you can make your way out again. Occasionally, deep beneath the earth, there is a rumble that can be felt even on the surface, vibrations that shift the sands without a single breath of wind. When the rumble comes, and how long it lasts, can vary each time it happens; no one knows why, or what causes it, giving rise to legends of some great creature hunting in the sands.