@markr,
Hi. At least a solution that makes a bit of sense.
The thinng is. When you build just one word, lets say river or tree, or stone there aren't enough letters left to go on. I don't know which words the solution should contain, but the riddle is from Heroes of Might and Magic 3. It's a game with a lot of fighting and magic. There are trees and rivers everywhere and stones. Green fields, treasure chests and castles and monsters and artifacts that are making you stronger.
There are ressources involved. wood,ore,mercury,sulfur and crystal.
But it maybe isn't connected to the whole thing. I dunno.
Those are some words you can build out of this ( I hope) anagram.
air,at,aries,eat,ever,is,on,ore,over,green,grey,grave,gore,gone,go,give,given,
grease,great,gear,see,sea,seen,sorry,sure,sit,sin,sun,story,stare,stair,starve,
stay,star,stone,ray,rain,rare,reign,run,rust,rusty,rest,river,regret,
never,nose,no,not,near,to,ten,tea,toe,true,tray,tear,try,tree,your,year,
yearn,yoga,yeti,vote,usa
that's all I could figure out.