Flooded Plains

Once a barren land, belonging to an ancient race of humans with untold technology, it is now flooded with ankle to shin-deep water, often stagnated in the arid desert climate. If not for the crumbling ruins and occasional spot of dry land, this region would have little reason to be explored or even visited.

The flooded plains is primarily a desert region perpetually flooded with stagnant ankle to knee-deep water, this causes travel to be labored and dangerous, forming many travel hazards such as quicksand, mud, and murky water, not to mention the ravenous insects and other predatory creatures fond of this environment. Exacerbating the danger is the long distances between towns, primarily settled on the border near well-travelled roads or shipping lanes, none of which run through this region, so venturing inward is ill-advised unless you're well-prepared to go without civilization for weeks at a time.

Dotting the landscape of this region is sunken temples, massive statues and broken towers, vanishing and reappearing from the waters sometimes fully surfacing on dry land that it brings up from the waters with it. The ruins are rumored to belong to an ancient human-like civilization and are not well-explored, but some recent expeditions have proven fruitful, leading to many discoveries of social, agricultural and technological importance. Most funded expeditions never return, leading to disastrous losses of lives and investments.

There is rumor of a massive city that was the center of this ancient race's civilization and religious worship, long abandoned and in sprawling ruins, only now home to specters and spirits of this long-dead race and their Gods.

Borders
The flooded plains is a region south of Lowwind Hills and Southwest of the Reaching Forest, a peninsula that reaches westward towards windward Isle. The border with the Lowwind Hills region is several miles of dirt with little or no grass, except around the northern lake and the Fletcher's Run river which separates this region from the borders of the Autumn regions of the Reaching Forest.

Towns
Yellowreach, nestled between a fork in Fletcher's Run, near the southernmost borders of the reaching forest.

Sunhold, a fertile town with a convenient river canal that leads from, and back into, the nearby bay. A trade town, built atop some intact remains of what was once the ruins frequenting the region.

Windward Isle, a large island off the southwestern tip of the peninsula, rich and fertile, used for growing and shipping tropical fruits and grains and shipping them to various other regions where there is demand.