Dial, the GEOGRAPHY — A desert. The Dial is a large salt desert that separates the → Great North from → Ausrost, making up the eastern portion of the → Dead Man’s Spine. Considered nearly impossible to cross, it serves as a barrier between the two regions and runs from the northeasternmost portion of the → Barren to the → Sea of Glass. The Lady’s Smile, a wide river at the base of the → Hundroën Mountains, borders it on the north.