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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 8127168" data-attributes="member: 40176">A few years ago I put together bits of a setting based entirely upon the idea of sand-ships plying the deserts, which I nicknamed Pirates of the Arabian.One concept I had in that setting was the Rainbow Oases, a desert trail intersecting several oases, each named for the colour of either their water or surroundings. I only heavily detailed the Indigo Oasis, named because its waters would sometimes take on that colour.The ranchers who lived near the oasis knew the meaning of the colour - they farmed the native giant scarab beetles, harvesting the intense indigo dye that could be extracted from their carapace. The oasis only took on that colour when a beetle was unfortunate enough to die and decay within its waters, and they knew to avoid the waters at such times, as the decaying corpse would poison them.That's probably too literal a form of "local colour" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> - but it might serve as a flavourful location.</blockquote>