Editing Ameth (section)

===The Surrounding Lands===
To the north of Ameth is a vast ocean across which all sorts of strange people might arrive. Some of the Siam claim to come from a land across the sea.

To the east is many months of desert, but one will find oases and small walled cities on the coast with mining outposts further inland. No settlements are long-lasting because they lack the rivers to bring fertility to their fields, though great wealth can be amassed by trading with them while such cities and outposts last. This desert is where scorpion-taur families live and hunt caravans.

Beyond the eastern desert is the mountainous region of Leng where barbarians worship the moon and the sea and mate with birds. Some of the Siam claim to originate from these mountains. Nothing is known of the lands further east, though several disturbing sculptures and indecipherable scrolls can be traced to the region.

The Yaddith kingdoms to the south can be difficult to reach when the rivers run rapidly. In many ways they mix Ameth's culture with the nomadic herdsmen and shamanistic spiritualism further south from them. No Siam has ever seriously claimed to be from the south, though they do trade there occasionally.

To the west there is a smaller desert, taking only five to six weeks to traverse via caravan. Once across, one would come to the first of eleven mighty walled cities which are constantly at war with one another. They are populated by humans, but rumor has it they are ruled by beings descended from the sun itself whose skin burns at a touch.