what sort of vegetation and climate is there in A Prince for Hire?
Pardon the slight blur, but here are the roughly laid-out biomes for the Plateau (and down into Musmiel)! Dark green = taiga; bright leaf green = temperate deciduous forest; dark leaf green = temperate rain forest; pale yellow/green = grassland; beige = cold desert; brown = tundra.
For the most part, Prince for Hire takes place in the southern edge of Scadria (in the little strip of green on the river, although I might veer it out a little into the grasslands); climate is generally cold, and Scandria's capital Tesendi is overall similar to Riga.
Kiris is originally from Cym, and is used to heavily wooded conifer forests, cool summers, and terrible winters. Iiriok is from Dargoulvga--specifically that pleasant stretch in the deciduous forest, right on a river. Batar is from Msvoulga (which I just realized I misspelled on the map), right on Lake Vgor where it's pretty much a temperate rainforest (think coastal Washington state). That said, the story begins in Strauv, right on Lake Vgor.