Options two and three range from really interesting to "meh whatever" depending on how well they draw upon the settings they seem to link to.
With that desert, I could see some interesting ways of doing it for darksun like a darksun elf tribe or even a remote settlement worried about some halflings or unknown power that might attract the eye of an SK enough to send some folks this far out, but generic set in FR I have trouble caring With darksun locked though that leaves two or three major deserts in eberron Blade desert, Menechtarun desert, & Demon wastes with the blade desert & demon wastes being most interesting because at least till exploring eberron they have interesting things that are almost entirely undeveloped while the other just kind of exists.
On the third, point.... hells yes but the giant empire is not mythical so nuch as destroyed. Keith Baker has written about them a bit on his blog & manifest.zone I expect we will get a lot about them next month in exploring eberron too
With that desert, I could see some interesting ways of doing it for darksun like a darksun elf tribe or even a remote settlement worried about some halflings or unknown power that might attract the eye of an SK enough to send some folks this far out, but generic set in FR I have trouble caring With darksun locked though that leaves two or three major deserts in eberron Blade desert, Menechtarun desert, & Demon wastes with the blade desert & demon wastes being most interesting because at least till exploring eberron they have interesting things that are almost entirely undeveloped while the other just kind of exists.
On the third, point.... hells yes but the giant empire is not mythical so nuch as destroyed. Keith Baker has written about them a bit on his blog & manifest.zone I expect we will get a lot about them next month in exploring eberron too