Asur-keh-la is the remains of an ancient city located in Samarkand, the desert country east of Albion. It is located next to the Great Trade Road. Positioned near the Great Trade Road, Asur-keh-la was once an important market city, trading goods with the nearby town of Sweetwater Trees. This era of prosperity passed with the tragedy that was the Black Storm, which drowned the city that would become Asur-keh-la in a torrential downpour of sand, burying it and its inhabitants alive. In the years since, the ghost city became gained a notorious infamy for being impassable, with any traveler heading out in that direction quickly being swallowed up by the living sands of eviscerated by the hordes of Hollow Men that once called the site their home.