The Ash-Dune Waste is a regional wilderness along Verulana's eastern volcanic frontier, where black dunes drift over buried roads and ember-beds glow beneath the haze. Thermal springs provide rare refuge, while smoke-fed ley currents draw fire elementals, ash-drakes, and stranger predators into the open desert. Caravans cross under chartered protection, prospectors descend upon ashglass seams, and every settlement survives by guarding water more carefully than gold.