Two witnesses said they had heard Roa say he was going to serve as bodyguard for two foreigners who were going on a trip to a desolated land.

East the wind howled over a desolated land where as many villages lay burned and farms ruined as held people.

The Sky Ship sailed on over the desolated land.

For six years now I have reigned, and I think that I am beloved; reigned over a broken land which I have striven to bind together, reigned over a sick land which I have striven to heal, reigned over a desolated land which I have striven to make forget.

The man who propounded this theory sought to show a weakening of the evil done for some years preceding the harrying of a desolated land, and in a few years after that a great increase in evil.

The Harriers had swept through this land, killing off the inhabitants, burning villages and farmsteads, making the area into a desolated land.

In "Cloud of Annihilation," the atmospheric shroud is even more ominous, and in the oddly titled "Recovery I" and "Recovery II," which look the opposite of on the mend, the desolated land is locked in a perpetual twilight.