Tahari Desert

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Tor,
a major city and supply center to the various oases in the region, lies
at the northwest corner of the trapezoid shaped Tahari region.
Northeast of Tor, is Kurtzal, small commercial riverside village where goods from Tor are gathered and floated up from Kurtzal on the Lower Fayeen River westward to the river port of Kasra, a known trading port of the Tahari region famous for the trading of red salt.
The Lower and Upper Fayeen Rivers flow into the sub-equatorial Cartius River, passes through the Village of the Six Ubarates of the Jungles of Schendi, fills Lake Ushindi and finally flows out to the Thassa sea through the Nyoka and Kamba Rivers.
Between Tor and Kasra, southwest of Tor at the border of the Tahari, lies the District of Teehra.
In this ‘Emptiness’, lies the Oases communities of the Tahari. Waterless, rocky, hot and dry, the Oases of the Tahari are hundreds of pasangs apart are fed by underground rivers from the southern slope of the Voltai, flowing southeastward.
Kailiauk (male)

Illustration by Boris Vallejo, 1976
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, Ballantine, 9th printing
Artwork courtesy of Jon Ard, The Complete John Norman
Chart of the Oases of the Tahari Desert
Names | General Location | Tribe | High Pasha of Tribe | Known for |
Oasis of Farad
|
On the caravan route
|
unknown
|
unknown
|
Zad, caravan master living there
|
Oasis of Four Palms
|
Far to the south of Red Rock
|
Kavar outpost
|
|
|
Oasis of Nine Wells
|
Eastward from Tor
|
Aretai
|
Suleiman
|
Large oasis with two public baths
|
Oasis of the Battle of Red Rock
|
Northwest of Klima and lays on the border of the dreaded Dune country
|
Tashid, vassal tribe of the Aretai
|
Turem a`Din
|
Battle of Red Rock;
last major oasis for more than 2,000 pasangs eastward |
Oasis of the Stones of Silver
|
Near the Oasis of Nine Wells
|
Char, vassal tribe of the Kavars
|
unknown
|
Name came about by dew on stones at dawn’s light glinting like silver
|
Oasis of the Sand Sleen
|
Opposite direction of the Oasis of Two Scimitars
|
unknown
|
unknown
|
Reportedly raided by Aretai from Nine Wells
|
Oasis of Two Scimitars
|
“Out-of-the-way” oasis
|
Bakahs, vassal tribe of the Kavars
|
unknown
|
Has mud buildings
|
Oasis of the Lame Kaiila
|
200 pasangs to the
northeast of Nine Wells
|
unknown
|
unknown
|
Closest oasis to the Oasis of Nine Wells
|
Tribes - Major | Subordinate and Vassal Tribes of the Tahari Desert |
ARETAI
|
Luraz, Tashid, Raviri - Ti, Zevar, Arani
|
KAVAR
|
Bakah, Char, Tajuks
|
Norman, John. Nomads of Gor. 1969. New York: Ballantine Books, 1977.
Hersius. The Tahari. The Gorean Voice, July 2003 Volume VI Issue 1 #61. http://www.pantheus.com/TGV/archive82003/TGV/geography.shtml
Luther. Luther's Gorean Essays: The Tahari Region. http://www.gor-now.net/delphius2002/id69.htm