Flora and Fauna

## ***Olden World***

* **Khortnett:** Dandelions, lovegrasses, reeds, rushes, anise, poplars, willows, sessile oak, olive, downy birch, junipers, tamarisk, mesquite, sea buckthorn, seaberry, and ancient scrub oaks are the most quotidian flora of Khortnett. Most plants can tolerate very high salinity soils and low rainfall, and coastal areas to the west have prime salty sea spray. The Kosnatic kangaroo rat, various grasshoppers, horned lark, rabbits, culpeos, kestrels, and various avian scavengers are the most commonplace species. Along the coast you may see gulls, terns, oystercatchers, plovers, shelducks, stonechats, salt marsh voles, field mice, slow worms, and grass snakes. Few fish thrive due to the Elgroo's very very high salinity but toothcarp thrive.
* **Obna Virah:** Due to a similar but slightly chillier climate to Khortnett and a lack of any connection to ocean, it is just a little more distinct than Khortnett's. Bentgrasses, rushes, sedges, crustose lichens, yarrows, plantain, thistle, and heather are the most common plants found in Obna Virah whilst rabbits, meadow pipits, magpies, larks, skylarks, buzzards, culpeos, voles, field mice, grasshoppers, crickets, marsh harriers, kestrels, and short-eared owls are the prime wildlife.
* **Kosnatica:** Little-leaved palo verde, anise, fan palms, chollas, paperbag bushes, catclaw acacias, creosote bushes, quinine nuts, colocynth, wild cabbage, desert hyacinth, tarbush, saltbush, sand verbena, desert marigold, false hawkbit, and oat brome are the most common plant species if you exclude the mountain and swamp areas of Kosnatica. Blue iguanas, desert grassland whiptail lizards, coachwhip snakes, cicadas, culpeos, black deer, black-billed magpie, bamboo rat, moupin pig, and the introduced warthog are common animals. The swamps have high salt content in its soils with primarily cattails, bulrushes, halophytic seepweed, mangroves, and saltgrass, the swamps are more distinct due to being abruptly wet soil near desert interface. Leopard frogs, herons, egrets, bighorn sheep, raccoons, sliders, mud turtles, dragonflies, damselflies, collared lizards, swamp lizards, and various gnats and mosquitoes are very common in the swampland. In the mountains, pikas, red foxes, marmots, golden eagles, sure-footed caprids like mountain goats, gray foxes, culpeos, bighorn sheep, peregrine falcons, and gray jays thrive in large numbers.
* **Sidrova:** It borders the Elgroo to the southern coast where it sits on par with Khortnett and Obna Virah's climates, but further north it becomes more springed up, lush, and boreal. Throughout Sidrova, you may see spartina grasses, salt meadow cordgrasses, poverty grasses, blue grama grasses, prickly wild roses, saltbushes, aspens, paper birches, jack pines, lodgepole pines, white spruces, black spruces, tufted hair grasses, blue joint reedgrasses, highbush cranberries, and dwarf raspberries. There are high populations and densities of sage grouse, burrowing owl, horned larks, toads, rattlesnakes, culpeos, rabbits, hares, hawks, moose, lynx, brown bears, squirrels, wood frogs, brook trout, beavers, martens, turkeys, and desert warblers throughout the country.
* **Mynnuka:** Has a blend of all four prior countries' climates so it is very very variated. Throughout the country, flora like bentgrass, fescue, brome, meadow foxtails, tufted hair grass, yarrow, dandelions, plantains, hawkweed, clovers, buttercups, seaside plantains, marsh rosemary, sea lavender, willows, alders, paper birches, sagebrushes, cattails, arrowheads, bog bilberries, blueberries, and cranberries can be seen. Elk, black deer, moose, voles, mice, shrews, mute swans, culpeos, and mallards are the most seen animals.

* **Chuliana:** Is among the most lush of the Old World's countries. Foxes are numerous at around 12,000 individuals, squirrels and rabbits number up to 450,000 each, and about 3.4k moose and 9k elk roam the country. Flora like firs, cedars, spruces, alders, rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas, magnolias, cherries, ferns, hostas, astilibes, tulips, daffodils, hydrangeas, wisteria, heather, miscanthus, peonies, lilies, bleeding hearts, and junipers are found across the land. Mute swans, mallards, slaty woodpeckers, and green frogs are also in high quantities.
* **Chartequincia**: The island has a climate like Chuliana but still distinct, its much like the eastern Royal North climatically and geographically but 4x the size allowing for more wildlife but less density. Badgers (both *Meles meles* and *Taxidea taxus*), Roe deer, and porcupines take the top spots for most populated larger mammals at 831,000 for roe deer, 192,000 for *Taxidea taxus*, 340,000 for *Meles meles*, and 700,000 porcupines. Red foxes follow closely at 187,000. Flora include redwood, firs, tanbark oaks, madrones, bay laurel, bishop pines, silk tassel trees, various ferns, huckleberries, wood sorrel, bloodroot, wild ginger, maple saplings, poison ivy, and yews. Other than badgers, porcupines, and foxes, you can spot skunks (80,000), gray squirrels (3.3 million), rabbits (10.5 million), hares (3 million), black bears (31,000), raccoons (100,000), countless firefly individuals, powerful owls (40,000), barn owls (91,000), great horned owl (38,000), and red deer (24,000).
* **Lobevia:** Lobevia is warmer and more regulated year-round due to its central location and close sources to multiple mountains, plains, deserts, and water sources. Lobevia has very high populations of culpeos at 250,000 individuals, red foxes at 170,000 individuals, and mule deer at 475,000. Flora variate through regions, but generally throughout most of Lobevia, you can find live oaks, grapevines, sugar maples, olives, cypresses, figs, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, poplars, aspens, grape hyacinth, lavender, and rosemary. Other than the prior three mammalian species, you can also find white-tailed deer (213,000), rabbits (*Countless but lots*), wild boars (200,000), peccaries (45,000), badgers (*Meles meles*, around 50,000), fence lizards (*Countless but numbering hundred thousands likely*), and kestrels (34,000 pairs).
* **Namporschia:** Has a very wet, foggy, and misty climate similar to North Lobevia which it is very adjacent. Very high population densities of brown bears (600), gray wolf (330), red fox (4,131), and culpeo (2,000). Numbers exceed 83,000 for carrion crows and exceed 18,000 for barn owls. Moss-covered live and sessile oaks are the most common tree species amidst silver firs and stone pines. Other plants like wisteria, poison ivy, stinging nettle, nightshade, belladonna, poison hemlock, blackberry, Spanish moss, and sword ferns are common on forest ground. There are also high densities of bats, wood frogs, toads, adders, grass snakes, nursery web spiders, western black deer, and feral cats (over 75% are black which is due to being released by witches) in Namporschia.

## Heretharia

* **Kutwhe:** Coconut palms, rice, bananas, mangos, jackfruit, and guava are the most common day-to-day plants you'll spot in Kutwhe. Water buffalos, free-range chickens, dogs, domestic ducks, lizards, geckos, kingfishers, sunbirds, parrots, and butterflies are the most common animals. In Cailoon (the set of cooler islands north off the coast of Kutwhe, you'll primarily just see coconut but more wildlife such as falanouc, crab eating raccoons, clownfishes, queen angelfishes, butterflies, damselfishes, triggerfishes, parrotfishes, green morays, whitetip and blacktip sharks, groupers, and wrasses.)
* **Orchid Isle:** Mangroves, coconuts, betel palms, bamboos, eucalyptus, acacia, cassava, sweet potato, corn, peanuts, mangosteen, rambutan, jackfruit, and bananas are the most common plants in Orchid Isle. Water buffalo, muntjacs, brushtail possums, monitor lizards, cobras, macaques, gibbons, cuscuses, birds of paradise, butterflies, saltwater crocodiles, saltwater monitor lizards, sea turtles, cockatoos, hornbills, kingfishers, dugongs, dolphins, whales, cicadas, grasshoppers, mosquitoes, skinks, pythons, geckos and moonrats commonly roam dense woodland and arid plain.
* Mako Mako: Guadua bamboo, strangler figs, acai palms, coconut palms, giant water lilies, bromeliads, rosewood trees, tree ferns, long pepper plants, liana, epiphytic orchids, dipterocarps, oaks, magnolias, banabas, tindalos, ginger plants, and pitcher plants are the most seen flora in Mako Mako.