Tiefling (added in the 4th edition setting) - A demon-cursed race of bloodthirsty desert raiders.
The city was walled, ostensibly to protect it from passing desert raiders.
They were more than adequate to repel the attacks from fake desert raiders.
And besides all of that, there were the desert raiders who plagued the Blue People and made the old caravan trails dangerous to use.
The concerns of a small group of desert raiders probably came very low in the order of priorities at the time.
Equally the monasteries were often enclosed with high blank walls to defend them from desert raiders during the Middle Ages.
"Somebody has to do something about the desert raiders," Daniel said.
Like wolves, the desert raiders swooped in from all sides.
His father fell in a skirmish with desert raiders from the eastern wastes.
She could see their pursuers now: they were hillmen, the worst of the desert raiders.