Dead Zone of Libya

The Dead Zone of Libya is a region of Africa that lost most of its physical and metaphysical qualities to Excrucian activity.

''Textrix the Deacon fought a Power for seven days, using that ability — what the Nobilis call the World-Breaker’s Hand — as his principal weapon. The Dead Zone of Libya was the result. No plant grows there. No love lives there. The sun is never bright there, no nation claims it, no map shows it. The ground is arid. Sometimes it crumbles underfoot, opening onto the vastness of nothing underneath. No one of interest was ever born there. No wind ever blows there. Nobody goes there save by force; and even though you can break a person by chaining them there for a day or two, even though it’d be the kind of punishment any despot or cruel authority would love to inflict, it doesn’t even get used for that very often, because the thing that places have that make them easy to remember is a thing the Dead Zone no longer has.''