Mountain & River

The resources they could procure in Paradise Valley were a lot more valuable and abundant than initially expected.

First, it looked like Paradise Valley didn't have much more to offer than the Sacred Desert. More resource deposits had been found, but the quality of resources wasn't several times higher in Paradise Valley than in the rest of the Sacred Desert. That was until the scouts discovered that the Blazing Sand Mountain Range was more than a pile of burning sand. 

The Blazing Sand Mountain Range didn't exist during Starheaven Pharaoh's era. Paradise Valley, on the other hand, existed. Therefore, Michael and others presumed that the Blazing Sand Mountain Range was piles of sand compressed into sandstone and other resources that were, more or less, without substantial value. However, that wasn't the case.