The Sovereign Councillors of the city-state of Terrkarn have once again decided that they want more tasty trading partners to swindle. Despite the south being an unending desert, the Tedeshan have met three, civilized or quasi-civilized peoples living on its coasts. In all likelihood, there are more to be found. Despite the far distance such an expedition would likely have to travel to reach any new peoples, the two great rivers of the desert, and the three friendly-ish peoples residing on and past them, would allow for rest, food, and, most importantly, fresh water to be replenished numerous times along the way.

A trading fleet of a half-dozen or so vessels, each carrying a half-dozen or so men, with provisions for a half-week or so, plus equipment for foraging and fishing, and a handful of trinkets and trade good samples, has thusly been dispatched under the able command of the Lord Palmast, the head of a minor merchant family not represented on the Council, and an experienced seafaring captain and mercantile negotiator.

Map of the expedition's predicted route.