The Tower Of Life is thrust into the equator, a vast inverted golden spike. It casts no shadow, and around it a vast dome of Earth-like atmosphere is sustained. [-25]
Woollentrees appear amidst the bubble of atmosphere around the Tower of Life. Whilst morphologically they share some resemblances with Earth-like trees, woollentrees have no need for light and thus grow fairly flat to the ground. They are squat against the ice, leaching trace minerals from the permafrost through extensive root complexes and breaking down volatile chemicals for the energy necessary to survive, drawing oxygen through their black leaves from the atmosphere to power the reactions. They possess internal systems capable of spreading the heat from their roots throughout their forms, and thick hairs grow across their trunks and branches to insulate against the cold and keep their heat within. They produce fruits in order to spread, either dropping and rolling away or being eaten by Woolsects and spread in faeces. [-50]
Woolsects follow suit, preying on Woollentrees and each other. Terrestrial and aerial varieties exist, up to half a metre in length, and they are reminiscent of Earth-like insects, save for the thick hairs surrounding their bodies to insulate against the cold. [-50]
Taron and
Taren surge up from the crust around the planet's poles. Seizing upon the planet's meagre nuclear reserves, the pair of mountains knit the mantle's atomics together and start generating vast quantities of heat, escaping through massive steam vents and through great rivers of lava. The blasted lands around each pole are stripped of ice, melting and steaming away to leave masses of barren rock, sandless deserts. Rivers form where it is cold enough to do so and pool into a pair of vast, shallow seas separated by the equatorial ice. Woollentrees and Woolsects split by the melting manage to survive in the wastelands, but the mountains are too hot for their life to survive. A harsh and caustic atmosphere arises, full of methane and carbon dioxide. Only in the embrace of the Tower of Life is the atmosphere still Earthlike.
Wyrmlings emerge in the poles, basking in the heat and taking advantage of the thermals to fly and hunt prey.
Heartfruit Trees, not dissimilar to the Woollentrees, grow about the poles. By comparison their roots are small, only enough to gather needed nutrients, and their branches and black leaves are tall, broad and flat, to absorb as much heat and radiation from their surrounds to fuel their forms. They grow small Heartfruit berries, tasting like cinnamon and raising the body temperature of the consumer.
Roasters are small herbivores used to the high temperatures of the poles, whose defensive mechanism is to breathe ignited flammable gas. They are primarily eaten by Wyrmlings.
Fire Vines spread south from the poles, heating up their surrounds with their tendency to violently explode in colder climes, or if incautiously eaten.
Steamers are an aquatic cousin of the Wyrmlings, living in the seas and rivers of the wastelands and preying on other life or sifting chemicals from the soup of the sea. They generate heat, causing steam, when they eat.
Steamers are also draconic creatures, smaller than Wyrmlings, that live in lakes/oceans/rivers, feeding on minerals/chemicals/nutrients and any lesser species that get too close to the water or live in it. They generate heat as a side effect of their consumption of other creatures, heat which often generates steam.[Tired, will do more updates later.]
Shadow Curse: The shadows of sapient creatures act out the suppressed personality traits of their caster. They are only able to affect the shadow world and remain tied to their creators. Animal, plant and object shadows act as normal, save that they can be affected by the cursed shadows.
The World
The Worldsphere
A vast glass sphere held in a gently spinning orbit around the world, approximately 14 times the diameter of the planet. Holds false images of the true stars, but depicted in beautiful, flowing pastel colours.
No Atmosphere.
Land
Province: Taron
North pole. Mountain, magma. Heartfruit Trees, Fire Vines, Wyrmlings, Roasters.
Province: Northern Wastes
Barren rock. Woollentrees, woolsects. Fire Vines, Wyrmlings, Steamers.
Province: Northern Sea
Shallow sea. Steamers.
Provinces: The Equatorial Ice Fields
Ice. Woollentrees, woolsects.
- Landmark: The Tower of Life
A huge, inverted golden spike stabbed into the ice fields. Casts no shadow, generates a 500mi radius dome of breathable oxygen atmosphere.
Ice fields. No life.
Province: Southern Sea
Shallow sea. Steamers.
Province: Southern Wastes
Barren rock. Woollentrees, woolsects. Fire Vines, Wyrmlings, Steamers.
Province: Taren
South pole. Mountain, magma. Heartfruit Trees, Fire Vines, Wyrmlings, Roasters.
Arboon Dresh (crazyabe): 725 points
Mirandolo (Detox): 400 points
Tarorzo (Fallacy): 60 points
Sauk'sketti (Trainzack): 650 points
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Topic: Titans of Creation: A Setup Game [World Two] (Read 18762 times)