Kento-Plains
The Kento-Plains is the name given to a vast savanna with sprinkled forest areas - if woodland areas of a few hundred square kilometres can be called a sprinkle - which makes up over half of the main landmass of Söe.
The plains stretch from the Peaceful Sea in the west to the massive cliffs of the Eastern Wall. From the Sea of Sorrows and the Azure Circle in the north to the Stout Sea in the south.
In the west there raises a mountain range including an active volcano called the Devil Horns by virtue of its double peaks. Both peaks are covered in snow year-round and a small glacier has built upon its western flank.
In the east the plains end at the high cliffs of the Eastern Wall. The cliffs divide Söe from north to south, coast to coast and reach a height of more than six Leguen.
The Kento were and are to this day one of the most widely spread people on the plains and the name Kento-Plains derives from that fact. They are however, not the people with the highest population they can just be found anywhere.
Geography
"The Kento Plains are a really vast sea of grass and as the seas do it roles in long and gentle waves across Söe."
Found in the journal "A true travelogue" by an unknown author, as stored in the Imperial library Durunk.
"...on the third day after we had left Tik'wal, heading eastward the Eastern Wall appeared on the horizon, a thin but noticeable band of blue.
Impatiently wanting to see more of this testament of Furion's war and his heroic stand I climbed on of the Nulgu trees for a better view..."
From "My travel diary - through the Kento-Plains" by Adepta Fontrii
Ecosystem
For such a fast area it is unusual to compromise only a few distinctively different ecosystems.
The most widely spread is a grass prairie with herds of herbivorous animals such as Antelopes, Buffaloes, and some reptilian species. All those are in turn attracting predators such as large Canines, Felidae, Birds and Reptilians.
Scattered trees and thickets are sprinkled onto square-Leguen of grassland, that can grow higher than a tall man but, over the most part reaches a man's hip.
Lightly forested areas make up another part of the Kento-Plains. And even though you may travel a week without seeing a tree closer than a few hundred strides close to another, the forests take second place in the ecosystem.
The archetypical forest of the Kento-Plains is openly growing with grass beneath the trees and some undergrowing bushes. Pines, Nulgu trees, Fever trees, Stycmore trees and quite some other species can be found here.
Within the Kento-Plains lies the valley of one of Turian's most famous rivers. The Uldin that springs for the Eastern Reaches and flows into The Stout Sea.
The river's valley is most often fertile land, with forests and dense other vegetation. In some places, however, it resembles something more akin to a desert river valley with only a small stripe of vegetation directly on the river while the wider valley area is barren, stone and even sand replace the fertile soil.
The coastal areas do not differ for the Kento Plains or the Eastern Reaches and those areas are the primary means of travel and exchange of species between the two parts of Söe.
A very memorable view, inspiring awe and wonder is the rather narrow stripe of land to the northern respectively southern end of the Eastern Wall. This stripe of land is only a few Leguen wide in the south and only a few hundred Strides at the north.
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