Sand (province)

The province of sand in the Zakharan view of magic was a group of spells related to the element of earth, taking its name from one of its most common forms in the desert lands of the Land of Fate. Many of its spells contained and used sand as an essential part.

The four elemental provinces played a very similar role for Zakharan magic-users as the eight (or nine) schools of magic did for Faerûnian ones.

Elemental mages in Zakhara specialized exclusively in one province, like sand, while sorcerers took spells from two provinces, shunning the other two. Unlike elementalists, they recognized no opposition between sand and the other three elements in the Land of Fate.