Introducing the fire nation!

Ive decided to do the fire nation of the gloaming, why? mainly because they were my favourite nation in the cartoon Avatar. Im looking at going into the desert and basing elemrnts of my character around the difficulty of surviving in extreme conditions. The creature has harvested what it can and eats what it can and shields itself from the sun, a nomad. a cool element that popped up was the fact that he has to lug this huge slab of rock around with him to ward off the sun, an idea derived from desert creatures (insects mostly) habit of hiding under rocks and having carapace slabs over them naturally.