Two hexes southwest of Alakran.
Nama'a, Road of Flowers, is the name of one of the Four Great Roads built by the dynasties of Urighem and extended eastward as they conquered first Wahattu, then Dulsharna. It was paved on a mighty scale, four thousand years ago in the Third Epoch. Its five-foot square stones of limestone and basalt, three abreast, are held in place with bituminous mortar.
Over the millennia the road has fallen into disrepair in places, such as
the stretch from Alakran in the east to Gesshed in the west. The
cracked and tilted pavings, sometimed wth gaps where unscrupulous builders have quarried the stones, mean that it is often faster to walk or ride
along the hard-packed earth of the desert plain. Still, it provides a useful guide showing the way from one place to another over the featureless lands.
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