Cresway Badlands

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Located in north eastern Shiris, connecting Osheau with the rest of the island, is a XX square mile plateau battered by the winds coming off of the Sea of the Dawn. These winds have blown away most of the topsoil and eroded the stone of the plateau into mesas, buttes, canyons and gorges.  What little soil is left is a loose regolith that quickly drains away the rains leaving little to no surface water for vegetation to use.
The most well known feature of the badlands is the massive canyon the Cresway River has cut though the rock to divide the plateau in half. The River begins at the foot of the XX waterfall fed by the XX lake in the XX mountains. The falls drop a staggering XX feet from the mountain cliffs to the bottom of the Great Cresway Canyon where it begins it's southward journey to the XX lake which eventually feeds into the Sea of the Dawn.

Geography

by Elodie Marnot

Characterized by arid landscape, mesas and buttes, little vegetation. Cresway River cuts a massive canyon south from the XX mountains. Large lake in the mountains is an oddity that has two 'exits', one to the east into Osheau and one to the west to cut through the Cresway Badlands. 
The badlands is composed of easily eroded mudstone and more resistant sandstone. High north westerly winds coming from the Sea of the Dawn have eroded the landscape leaving Mesas and buttes.

by Colin Bedson

Fauna & Flora

Flora

Pleateaus

Succulents, scrub grasses

River

Reeds, algie, moss

Fauna

Plateaus

Small rodents, rabbits, scorpions, beetles, snakes, lizards, medium predator and scavenger beasts.

River

fish, cliff birds, water insects

Natural Resources

Clay

Tourism

caravans going to and from Osheau

Shiris

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Island of Shiris

Type

Badlands

Location under

Shiris

Related Ethnicities

• Mateen