Mountains, needle-leaf forests and tundras; a region where, even at the heights of summer, the lowlands experience only mild temperatures, while the spearing peaks remain, as ever, tipped with white. In winter, all paths into the Frostlands are made near-impassable by horrid weather conditions, rock-and-snow avalanches and the lack of resources. With the coming of the season beasts and their predators either migrate down to the Flatlands and Woodlands, or hide in the inner valleys where winter oases flourish around hot springs.
A thousand types of tree and shrub are found here, populating the three, unbroken biomes this region houses; boreal near the Frostlands, deciduous along the Flatlands and the Coast, and a temperate rainforest within the deep interior of the Woodlands. While there are the occasional clearings, trees growing sparser around the region's borders, vast majority of the Woodlands is in shadow of great stretching canopies. Hills and mountains peek above the trees, but even those are smothered, overgrown. This changes only when winter blows in, leaving branches bare, but evergreen trees are enough in number and the Coastal regions warm enough that the Woodlands never truly lose their green.
Ever-stretching plains, terrain with little variety in height, where trees grow in groups no denser than sparse copses. A mighty river, sourced from the Frostlands, and its tributaries, cuts across to feed the few large lakes and ponds, then disappears into the dense Woodlands. With the seasons, the plains change color from springtime green, over parched yellow to an even covering of snow (which is absent nearer the Wastelands), then becoming prone to flooding as the great rainclouds spill. This is the domain of racing beasts and grazing ones, where one finds the largest of them, long-necked and whip-tailed.
Most inhospitable of the regions, the Wastelands are a parched expanse of cracked earth refining into tall dunes of sand further south. Only a single river flows in from the Flatlands, and it swiftly dries up whenever temperatures rise; thus, water is mostly sourced from natural oases, or by constricting wells reaching into underground reservoirs. Vegetation is sparse, ranging from tough shrubs to cacti. Shelter is found in the shade of towering mesas and plateaus, by both beasts and people. It is the only place remnants of previous settlements have been found, but they offer nothing but mysteries to the curious.
An unnamed sea- or is it an ocean? - batters beaches both rocky and sand-filled, leaving a diverse landscape which stretches the entirety of the region's shoreline. There are tidal pools rich with curious finds, plummeting cliffs where screeching wyverns nest, great rocks as if broken off ancient hills, hidden caverns and saltwater lakes. As one leaves the mainland, the waters are full of fish hiding amongst seagrass beds, with a bright coral reef far south - and sheets of ice far north, during the winter months. Out there are islands of various makes, from archipelagos to ones large enough to support their own land ecosystems. Sea monsters are, as ever, a threat.
