Great Grass Ocean
"If you lack imagination, it might be hard to understand why we call it the 'Great Grass Ocean.' Looking at it, it's just another plain, longer than the horizon and covered in knee-high grass. Even those lacking in imagination may get it, though, when the wind sets that grass into rolling waves or when the Czhahyl wagons roll across like ships in the sun."
~Abide Baht Mig, Caravaneer.
Geography
The Great Grass Ocean is a vast grassland, and though it is not entirely flat the slopes and rolls are so gradual that they are nearly imperceptible without points of reference. Dotted here and there on the plains are groves of trees. The locals usually call these groves 'islands,' and the practice has gone on long enough that the original humor of it has passed and they are often genuinely puzzled that people wouldn't know what they are referring to.
The Grasping River's West Fork curls to an end in the Grass Ocean, while the East Fork cuts all the way through it. The west border of the plain to is delineated by the Twisted Spine Bay in the north, the Foothills in the center and the Berfurrow Inlet on the south. Its southern border terminates in Wupan, replaced by the Ganzin Dunes. To the east, the border is marked by the Yiesen Forest and the Foyle Wood, while also giving way to the various deltas and floodplains that make up the Blacksoil Meadows.
Fauna & Flora
The grass from which the Great Grass Ocean derives part of its name is mostly an uncultivated wheatgrass. While it can provide a low-yield of grainy flour that is often used by the lower classes for oatmeals, it is mostly cut down to make way for farmland with more useful plants.
The major predators of the plain are cats, which compete for the top slot with wolves and the occasional griffon. They prey on the migratory deer, moose, and pestletails that pass through. In addition, groundfowl and prairie rodents can be found in abundance, and the placid grass can actually be teeming with life adept at hiding.
Natural Resources
There is very little in the Great Grass Ocean to speak of. Occasional veins of precious or useful minerals rise to the surface, but these are usually deep and the mines to access them more costly than profitable. Most people plying the Great Grass Ocean for a living do so as hunters, trappers, ranchers, or farmers.
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