A little late this week, but heres a snippet from the Setting Chapter: Once, the Amazon River was one of the greatest river systems in the world, spanning thousands of miles and feeding acres upon acres of rainforest spanning the northern half of South America. Today, the mighty river still flows, but it flows blood red, its waters heavily laced with visceroj. The river system feeds the jungle that dominates the majority of Sudos landscape, the vegetation warped by exposure to the visceroj and feeding on the warmth of the ground below rather than the light of the sun above. The ground on which Sudo stands is strange, warmer than the other remnants of Earth, and this strange property of the ground has given rise to stranger things in the jungles of the Amazonek. The great Amazon rainforest used to be home to over half the species of plants and animals on Earth. Many of these creatures died in the cataclysm, but others have mutated into great and terrible monsters that roam the red-tinged shadows of the Amazoneks forests. Tales from the few adventurers brave enough to venture into the Amazonek and lucky enough to emerge alive describe insects the size of horses and great, saber-toothed cats with razor-sharp horns to match their canines and eyes that glow red in the darkness of the deep jungle. The river itself is full of horrifying monsters, from river snakes up to thirty feet long to piranha the size of great white sharks. Even the vegetation is said to be deadly, from plants that emit clouds of poisonous gases and spores to the great Violet Man-eater, an enormous tropical iris with teeth that will eat any creature foolish enough to venture too close to its maw. A few tribes of natives still inhabit the Amazonek, though many of these tribes are now barely recognizable as human. As warped by their new environment as the animals they hunt, these demi-human tribesmen haunt the Amazonek like ghosts, deftly avoiding their senviva neighbors and occasionally hunting small pockets of normal humans that struggle to eke an existence out on the edges of the jungle. The jungle itself is home to a large population of senviva, many born from the corpses of hapless adventurers who ventured into the Amazonek and never emerged, still others from the bodies of creatures that were not fully eaten by the denizens of the jungle. These senviva seem to be more intelligent than many of their fellows, to the point of some adventurers describing them as seeming to have a community of their own, complete with hierarchy and leadership. The level of organization is disturbing, especially in light of the fact that these same adventurers have indicated that these senviva do not appear to have a daemon cadre associated with them at all, something typically seen among organized groups of senviva.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:50:51 +0000