Mulga plains

North of the Eastlands and east of Solaris over the mountains lay the Mulga plains. While more hospitable than its southern cousin, the plains are the less explored of the two regions, a climb through the mountains required to gain access and too much work for so little reward.

What is known about this region is the rolling plains of thin stemmed ground cover peppered with mulga and their parasitic cousin. Where strange hopping marsupial and Eratora lounge, overwhelmed by the heat.

Bioluminescence is found here in the little bulbs that grow from the ground cover, a layer of low light designed to confuse the nightime herbivores from finding a good purchase on the roots, whether they be hopping marsupial or locust like insect.

Geography

Bordered by walls physical and metaphorical on all sides; the sheer cliffs leading to the ocean east of Dorsal Island, the mountains around The bleeding mountain, the endless east, and the eastlands - all making the mulga plains highly isolated.

The plains are mostly flat, though they start almost 500m above sea level. The soil is still the iron rich red soil here, though it has a darker tint of flecking of older igneous rock.

Localized Phenomena

The region loves a good insect swarm, often during the daytime when most things sleep, trying to get the the moist root stem of the plains shrubs, and leaving the ground exposed to the tilling of the winds. These are the times that the plains explodes briefly into multitudes of unseasonal colour. The less prosperous of the low lying plants (often toxic to the insects), grow quickly in these moments of wild abandon before diving into colour, polinated by the same insects that devour the petals in the days leading up to their own breeding frenzies and death.

Climate

Hot and dry, its northern edge barely catching the ocean breeze and gaining some of the ocean succulants that take advantage.

The area could almost be called a subtropical desert region, if not for the irratic rain that sometimes floats in off the ocean from the breath of man. The region has enough eratic flooding and strong winds that it is not uncommon to see a mulga tree growing at angle, thick branches that were once roots growing at strange angles.

More Mochi, no problems.

The few people who havd explored the plains at night have seen a rare sight. Cousin to the Brush tailed Mochi, the thin tailed variant has a much more subdued coat, a thin tail but almost disproportionate eyes and 'goggles' of glowing nodules that pulse with the familiar green-blue of natural glow.

Still gliders like their cousins, they are nocturnal, less travelling from tree to tree, but often tree to ground to eat the insects that often infect the shrublands with mite like scales

Owning Organization

Solaris Royal Court