Mithras

Mithras is the second-largest continent on Asteria. In its south the Cybelian Mountains morph into rough, rocky terrain until they reach Ordiri, a temperate forest covering most of southeast Mithras. Further north, Ordiri morphs into a large taiga-tundra zone called the Darjgá. Southwest Mithras is covered by the Baaphomoors, a marshy wetland region between Lake Anahita and the Nereon Bay. Mithras was named after Mithra (Sanskrit "Mitra"), known as Mithras to the Romans, an ancient Indo-Iranian god of the sun, justice, contract, and war. According to legend, Mithra was born with a torch and knife in hand, beside a sacred stream and under a sacred tree. He went on to ride (and later kill) the life-giving cosmic bull, whose blood fertilized all vegetation. Mithra's cult spread to the Roman Empire in 3-4th century AD, where it was supported mostly by the soldiers and soon grew to rival Christianity. =Geography=

Baaphomoors
The Baaphomoors are a large tidal freshwater marsh in Mithras. They're fed into by the brackish water of the Nereon Bay and the freshwater of Anahita; they rise and fall with the tides twice a day. The Baaphomoors developed in a prairie pothole, a large depression left by glaciers buried in the soil during Asteria's last Ice Age. Fertile soil combined with a temperate climate make the Baaphomoors one of the most biodiverse areas on Mithras, if not all of Asteria. They're mostly populated by herbaceous plants (plants with non-woody stems) as well as Xenopoda and Parimata, particularly Genphilomorpha, who depend on the marshes as they migrate from Aurora to more temperate climates every year.

Ordiri
Ordiri is a temperate forest covering most of southeast Mithras. It's inhabited mostly by Aprimorimata, which it's named after; primordium coming from Latin primus, meaning "first", and Latin ordiri, meaning "beginning". The rocky region south of Ordiri is inhabited mostly by Aprimorimata's sibling order, Tererrimata.

Darjgá
The Darjgá refers to all of north Mithras, including the large taiga covering most of the northeast and the tundra to the northwest. Its name comes from Russian тайга́ (tajgá), meaning "taiga", and Lappish (Finno-Ugric) tundar, meaning "elevated wasteland, high-topped hill" or "a marshy plain".

Nereon Bay
Nereon Bay is a bay between Cybele and Mithras. It's the largest bay on Asteria. It's named after the nereids, sea nymphs from Greek mythology.

Lake Anahita
Lake Anahita is the largest lake on Mithras, mostly likely all of Asteria, so large that it has its own (unnamed) island. The lake is named after Anahita, an Iranian goddess of the waters and companion of Mithra.