Geographer Needs Help!

For some time I’ve been contemplating a project to flesh out the very sparse regional description in the Arcanum Illyria wiki. This in turn was quite an eye opener: Because I don’t usually spend prestige to zoom out, and mostly leave “terrain” off the map display, I hadn’t realized how much of the map content is actually not random! Like the way herbs and minerals are concentrated to mountain regions and forests for instance…

This is my work so far on Ragallon:

Ragallon covers roughly 82,563 square miles. It is bordered to the north, west and south by great rivers, and to the east by the dense forests on the western slopes of the great Taomist mountain range.

In the center north of the province a highland region of small hills forms the base of a great mountain massif, all circled by a forest belt. Two rivers spring from these mountains, running to the west. In the south a smaller massif is similarly surrounded by hills and a forest belt.

The dominating terrain of the rest of the province, along the rivers forming its borders and in three large plains in the east, is a broken plain with some scattered mountains and forests, with some volcanic activity visible in the form of fiery mountains and geysers. In the northeast there are three small areas of what appears to be perennial mist.

The north and south mountain massifs are both rich in common minerals; grapes grow on the slopes surrounding them, while the forests encircling them have plenty of common herbs. The banks of the river to the north are rich in Queens Hair Leaves, while Ancient Oaks and Brascan Seeds grow in the great forests.

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I find a major problem is actually the lack of names on the map. Not even the great rivers and lakes have names, so discussion or even referring to them becomes very difficult.

Another question – do we know that herbs and animals spawn according to region? Both sides of the banks of the river (and lake) separating Ragallon from Windlost are rich in Queen’s Hair Leaves, while Ancient Oak is found further inland in the forests. Is it a given thing that a depleted QHL patch will re-spawn on the same side of the river, and therefore in the same region, or could their spawning be governed by growth zones such as “the river banks” not marked or named on the map?