Rub' al Khali

The Rub' al Khali (Arabic: الربع الخالي‎ ar-Rubʿ al-Ḫālī, Empty Quarter) is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the cradle of civilization on Earth, containing the ruins of Ubar, an ancient city that predates human civilizations by at least 4,000 years.

The Rub' al Khali once holding the Ubarian civilization has made locals, such as the Omani, overwhelmingly superstitious of the area. Tales of the area being cursed and forbidden to be in has propagated throughout the surrounding cultures to warn about the eldritch civilization that once existed in the Rub' al Khali nearly ten thousand years ago. Guides were willing to take outsiders, like Lorenzo Cabot and his party had in 1894 who largely unheeded the guide's warning, but due to their fear of the area are more likely to abandon those who stay too long in the forbidden areas.

Appearances
The Rub' al Khali is mentioned in Fallout 4.