Riddari

Vast plains and low hills. Temperate to the south to near sub-arctic to the north. It is hot in the summer and can get bitterly cold with terribly deep snows in the winter in the foothill areas. The Riddari, for the most part a dissected fluviatile plain. That is, this section was once smoothly covered with a gently sloping plain of gravel and sand that had been spread far forward on a broad denuded area as a piedmont deposit by the rivers which issued from the mountains. Since then, it has been more or less dissected by the erosion of valleys. The central section of the plains thus presents a marked contrast to the northern section. While the northern section owes its smoothness to the removal of local gravels and sands from a formerly uneven surface by the action of degrading rivers and their inflowing tributaries, the southern section owes its smoothness to the deposition of imported gravels and sands upon a previously uneven surface by the action of aggrading rivers and their outgoing distributaries.

87 species of mammals, 457 species of birds, 67 species of snakes, lizards and turtles, 32 species of amphibians, 142 species of fish, ~ 20,000 species of invertebrate animals including over 15,000 species of insects, 46 species of unionid mussels, ~ 200 species of woody plants, over 800 species of non-woody flowering plants, ~ 150 species of grasses, and untold numbers of monstrous creatures.   Fauna - Opossums:Virginia Opossum, Shrews and Moles: Eulipotyphla, Northern Short-tailed Shrew, Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew, Least Shrew, Masked Shrew, Crawford's Desert Shrew, Prairie Shrew, Eastern Mole, Bats: Pallid Bat, Townsend's Big-eared Bat, Big Brown Bat, Silver-haired Bat, Eastern Red Bat, Hoary Bat, Western Small-footed Myotis, Gray Myotis, Little Brown Myotis, Northern Myotis, Cave Myotis, Yuma Myotis, Evening Bat, Tri-colored Bat, Brazilian Free-tailed Bat, Armadillos: Nine-banded Armadillo, Rabbits and Hares: Black-tailed Jackrabbit, White-tailed Jack Rabbit, Swamp Rabbit, Desert Cottontail, Eastern Cottontail, Rodents: American Beaver, Prairie Vole, Meadow Vole, Woodland Vole, Eastern Woodrat, Southern Plains Woodrat, Muskrat, Northern Grasshopper Mouse, Texas Mouse, White-footed Mouse, Deer Mouse, Fulvous Harvest Mouse, Western Harvest Mouse, Plains Harvest Mouse, Hispid Cotton Rat, Southern Bog Lemming, Meadow Jumping Mouse, North American Porcupine, Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher, Plains Pocket Gopher, Hispid Pocket Mouse, Ord's Kangaroo Rat, Plains Pocket Mouse, Silky Pocket Mouse, Family Muridae, House Mouse, Norway Rat, Black Rat, (Squirrels), Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Southern Flying Squirrel, Woodchuck (Groundhog), Eastern Gray Squirrel, Eastern Fox Squirrel, Franklin's Ground Squirrel, Spotted Ground Squirrel, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel, Eastern Chipmunk, Carnivores: Coyote, Gray Wolf, Worgs, Gray Fox, Swift Fox, Red Fox, American Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, Ringtail Raccoon, Northern River Otter, Striped Skunk, Long-tailed Weasel, Black-footed Ferret, Least Weasel, Mink, Eastern Spotted Skunk, American Badger, Cougar (Mountain Lion), Bobcat, Riddari Tiger, Wild Boar, Moose, Wapiti (Elk), Mule Deer, White-tailed Deer, Pronghorn, Bison, Ponies, Horses, Yak, bullette (including giant/monstrous versions of the above creatures)

Grains, livestock (wild horses). The Riddari region has many natural resources. Fertile black and dark brown soils support grain agriculture, and the grassland provides a natural range where cattle can graze. Coal, potash, and sulfur are found within the sedimentary basins of the plains. To the east, along the Palasar River limestone is prevalent.