Pryanfed

Geography & Climate
Pryanfed is a desolate land through and through, with extremely minimal vegetation to the point of even cacti only surviving closer to the tropical crater section of Trofannau. Its climate, as it has always been, is blisteringly hot and scorching where only the hardiest of species dare to live, and only the most foolish try to occupy. The land is scarred deep by the tides of war as they tore the desert-dwelling human population into shreds until naught by the luckiest survived, whom now live in a constant state of nigh-starvation and dehydration. However, there are many fleshy-coated caves intercepting the desert landscape, as the insectoid Pyrids had built their homes underground, and infested them.

The Pyrids
The Pyrids are insectoid creatures who work, similarly to ants, like one enormous team. They have a leader as such, usually the largest, who dictates naught but the general direction of action. Their natural habitat is a shallow burrow that allows quick access to the surface to get moisture from surface wells, and they collect what organic matter they can find in their hives.

The Coming of the Storm
When demons flooded Pryanfed, the humans were obliterated extremely quickly. They were not equipped for combat against anything other than the scarce desert creatures and adventrous pyrids, and so they were all but wiped out. The Pyrids, however, working as a hive, adapted to the constant besiegement of demons. Their population was destroyed, nearly completely nonetheless; but they managed to escape nigh-extinction by burrowing much deeper. They ran into underground wells to get their moisture, and ancient remains to feed upon. They had to seal off their hives, or hide the entrances, to escape being found by the demons.

The demon hordes eventually gave up, or thought that they had finished their duty of wiping out life in Pryanfed, when the land had already been mostly dead for years. They relocated north into the Trofannau crater, Diffaith and the Troffanau forests. As a result, the remaining, adapted Pyrids were left deep in the desert, and as such it is impossible to know their numbers, but it is predictable that they are more numerous than the less lucky races of Aelos.

Humanity
The humans of the desert were extremely hardy people and were well aware of how to survive in their environment. They were equipped with naught but ancient animal bones to protect themselves, which was sufficient for every-day problems but they were hopeless when the demon swarm came.

All that marks humanity's effect on the land is an abandoned coastal port, where they had primarily traded bones for supplies, and a wrecked major town near the entrance from Diffaith, which housed most of them. Now, only seventeen humans remain, most of whom live close to the Trofannau crater, although a few inhabit the town, scavenging what they can and making use of the hovels.