Lirian laid back on the soft chair in the mayors study for a while as he processed what the mayor had said to him.
"Sorry," Lirian eventually replied, "But I intend to go to the desolation, it sounds interesting," Lirian said with a smirk and got up to leave.
Ever since the first time Lirian had heard of a desolation in the empire he wanted to visit one and learn more about them.
But aside from the bedtime stories told about the desolations there wasn't much, even when he hacked confidential servers he got nothing, and when he tried to use the system to learn about the desolations, the fate points required made him give up.
Lirian had studied so many aspects of the 33 Neather Plains, during his many life times, but he never came across anything that resembled a desolation, so he assumed that it was some unique trait of the main plain.