It may seem odd to have a region so barren and dead so close to a Capital which promotes its surrounding regions to thrive for future expansion. But Ratrun has long been the exception. It has served as the thoroughfare for deserters as long as there have been Hunters thriving in the east. The goal of shelling the region of Ratrun to an inch of being just a crater was to dissuade any would-be deserters from choosing that path.
Now all that remains is ash, bog and a labyrinth cracked into the dead earth, a wasteland that would appear devoid of life. but beneath the surface things are burrowing and clawing, crawling out of the eastern deserts and making a hunting ground of this arid region.