The Flower Kingdoms are the innumerable tribes that live in the flooded grasslands south of the Fangs of Khurazar. Their ancient histories predate even that of the elves.
Geography
Separated from the Sangora Desolation to the north by the Fangs of Khurazar and the Laqto Rainforest to the west by the Southern Fangs, the landscape of the Flower Kingdoms is covered primarily by flooded savannas and swamps. Many rivers, beginning in the Fangs and the eastern and western hills, meander past countless lakes as they converge into the Prince of Yearning, the longest and widest river of the region. The Prince of Yearning itself eventually flows out through an alluvial plain and into the Mhasmuth Ocean. All these waterways regularly flood when seasonal storms and high waters arrive, but even in drier periods they sprawl into the surrounding grasslands, often so wide and flowing so slowly that they are barely recognizable as rivers.
During the rainy season up to 80% of the land within the Flower Kingdoms becomes inundated and flooded. This decreases to 50% during the dry seasons, or even less during the rare years of drought.
Trees in the Flower Kingdom grow largely in small groves around more permanent bodies of water, except for around the Abarsal and Hapantali rivers, where they increase in density into a swampy tropical forest.
Much of the Flower Kingdoms is quite flat. Closer to the mountains foothills rise from the grasslands in the north and west, and a more rugged landscape can be found in the east as well, separating the Kingdoms from Talmithe.
Located near the equator, the Flower Kingdoms are hot year-round with relatively little seasonal variation in temperature. Seasons are instead defined by the amount of rainfall.
Home to a dizzying array of animals, the Flower Kingdoms are full of life, everything from the fish in the rivers, the flocks of birds that feed upon them, the buffalo in the grasslands, the hydras and crocodiles that lurk in the swampy waters, and the dinosaurs that wander the floodplains.
History
The many peoples of the Flower Kingdoms each have their own long and detailed past, but it is this age of their histories that connects them. Certain oral histories, stories, and traditions from the tribes credibly date back twelve to fifteen thousand years, far before even the elves of Eita were beginning to form their early societies in the Cradle. In fact they are the only known people of the Three Great Seas who can tell of their history prior to what scholars around the Chaska Sea know as the "Y0 interlude". The importance of their water-dancing rituals have largely kept them to the flooded savanna, however, giving them a degree of isolation from the broader world for many millennia. Unfriendly contact with the expansionist elves of Eita, and those of Talmithe, has also kept the people of the Kingdoms looking inward. More recently, however, trade delegations from the tribes have met with outsiders near the mouth of the Prince of Yearning, and adventurers from the region have begun to travel out across the ocean.
Demographics
Most inhabitants of the Flower Kingdoms are human, lizardfolk, and grippli. Half-elves, elves, and catfolk are less common but also present.
The Flower Kingdoms are very sparsely populated, and encampments are commonly tens of miles from the nearest other tribe or settlement at any given time.