Though Fah, God of the Sun and Fire, has achieved dominance as the most powerful deity in the Akh’Barad pantheon, there was a time when Akh’Mashnazahd, the Prince of Sand, held sway. There are still some areas of the faith that consider him to be the most powerful. While most of the tribes who live on or near the great sandy dunes of the Maghana Deserts would be considered of the Akh'Barad Turu faith with Akh’Mashnazahd as their particular patron (Akh’Barad ni’Akh’Mashnazahd), there are some tribes who still worship an older faith with Akh’Mashnazahd as the most powerful god, the only Greater God, with Fah and the other gods as Lesser Gods. This sect is known as the Akh’Mashnazahd’Barad. Fah’s most devout supporters believe that practitioners of the Akh’Mashnazahd’Barad sect are heretics.