A vast expanse of hot, primarily flat, savanna, the Shaar stretches for hundreds and hundreds of miles across southern Faerûn. The grass is occasionally broken up by other, more interesting geography, though the region between the Sharawood and the Giant's Belt Mountains—Veldorn—features only the crater of Aerilpar Forest in the way of relief.

Inhabited by a combination of beastmen and indigenous human tribes, the easternmost portion of the Shaar is a dangerous and untamed place, a graveyard of civilizations that have attempted to settle the area across millennia and universally failed. Even neighboring Durpar and Estagund have learned to simply let the place be, for better or worse, following hundreds of years' worth of unsuccessful clashes with the alliance of beast-chieftains that rules there. As of now, the axe beaks, gazelles, and other fauna have the place mostly to themselves.