The deserts in the western part of Latakar are an unforgiving place, a place of two extremes. They are a place where a creature can perish from the heat during the day and the cold during the night. 
 
Moreover, they are the place where the worship of the Sun God Ukko and the Moon Goddess Umi is at its strongest, although most of the inhabitants do not know the deities' names. Instead, they pray to the Day and Night, as the two things that govern their life. Indeed, the desert itself changes during the night, in more ways than one.