The Ashlands

The book reads: "The ashen wastes is unforgiving in its' nature, the heat so immense, dehydration is a real threat, jagged cliffs and "mountains" more comparable to spikes of useless machinery pokes through the ground. A single slip can mean the end to your story or to be stuck in the crags, to be buried and fossilized by the ash. This is where HE or rather, IT was exiled after losing control of the forgotten second empire. This place is a death trap, not only environmentally, but also mechanically. Some ancient machines still persist, still doing their original, yet obsolete role, viewing everyone as an intruder. They give no quarter in their role, no mercy. The other regions seem to hold no historical significance, even though they're inhabited by mortals. Other than the occasional lost laboratory, armory and library, there are no traces of the second empire, only ruins."