Post by Nathan Blaze on Jul 23, 2014 20:04:18 GMT
Kishawan Island - How did we get here?
Kishawan Island is a mysterious and unique island. Nathan found it because he was taken in a boat by some humans. When he saw land, he took his chance and jumped out of the boat, swimming to the island. When he arrived there, it was snowing, yet it wasn't winter. It was cold, but not extremely cold either. When he started to explore, it stopped snowing. He found out that the terrain of the island varies a lot. Most of it is grass, but one place seems burned and on a little island that is really close to Kishawan, there's only sand. Weird plants and mushrooms grow on the island, too. After exploring for like and hour, Nathan found a den, which made him remember the old den in Endless Plains, where he once lived. He decided to live there with his family.
Inferno Island - all info
Inferno Island is the tiny island which is just a few meters away from Kishawan island. Because it has the shape of a Jelly Bean, many creatures(Which know about the existance of jelly beans) call the island 'Jelly Bean Island'. Others just think it as a part of Kishawan Island, and when they say Kishawan Island they also mean Inferno Island. It's really hot on the little island and the only terrain there is sand. There is no dirt, no stone on the ground, just sand. There is a den on the island, but it is not taken by any group. Two kinds of cactuses grow on the island. The first one is called a NiruCactus. It's the cactus with little pink flowers on it. You can't eat the cactus, and the needles are poisonous. But when you can cut them open without touching them, a sweet blue juice will come out of it. It tastes really good, and is full of vitamins. The other cactus is a PanduCactus. These have red-ish fruits growing on them. The fruits smell disgusting, so most creatures don't eat them. But some say they have eaten it, and it is the most delicious fruit in the world. Some also say it is really poisonous, and that loved ones of them have died eating the fruit. We are not sure. The needles of the cactus are not poisonous tho, but they hurt when you touch them and are hard to pull out of your skin. There is one kind of insect living on Inferno Island, called the CamoMantis. Most call it Diggers. It's like a sand coloured praying mantis. Diggers are slightly smaller than the praying mantis, and they hide in the sand by digging a hole and hiding under it. They can hold their breath for 30 minutes so when you want to find these insects you gotta dig in the sand.
The climate
The climate on Kishawan Island is not natural at all. The weather changes a lot. Sometimes it snows, sometimes it rain or hails and sometimes there is a sandstorm(Even tho nobody knows where all the sand comes from). On most places of the island it is warm. Not hot, just warm, and that is very comfortable. But on one little place on the island, it is really cold. There is a pond there, which is froze and the snow doesn't melt there. And on Inferno Island, it's extremely hot. Nobody really knows how the climate came to be the way it is. Maybe we will find out one day.
Food - carnivores
Lots of different kinds of animals live here. A list of a few of them is written in the species section on the site. So every animal you can imagine, could be walking around on the island. But there are a few insects that are very common on the island, and which you can only find on this island. One of them is the GrootBeetle. It is a beetle which is bigger than most other beetles. They can become about 20 centimeter high, and 25 long. There are 2 kinds of GrootBeetles. The Heaven GrootBeetles and the Hell GrootBeetles. The Heaven ones taste good. They are mostly green, and have blue spots all over them. The Hell ones taste extremely delicious, but are extremely poisonous too. They also have 'teeth' which they can attack with. So the Hell GrootBeetles are pretty dangerous. They also are blue, and have green spots too. So what is the difference between Heaven and Hell beetles? The Hell ones have darker spots than Heaven ones, and they act more aggressive. So really watch out when hunting this prey. An other insect that lives on the island is a Hopper. These creatures look like grass hoppers. The problem is, they are really tiny and fast. The males can be red and yellow only, but the females can be red, yellow and purple. The biggest difference between males and females is that the females always have black stripes on them. The size of a Hopper is mostly about 7 milimeters to 1 centimeter,and because of their size, also get eaten by GrootBeetles. They do live in groups of around 500 Hoppers, so you mostly find them with a big group. Still they are really hard to catch. So why would you catch a tiny creature that is so hard to catch? Because they are yummy and very healty! They are especially good to eat when you are sick. And there are also SonarSnails. Sounds like an easy meal, a snail. But they are not. These little beasts can make all kinds of noises in a very weird way. Then can make it sound like they are somewhere else. They can also change colour like a cameleon. So for example. You see a snail, want to eat it but suddenly it makes a yelping sound. It sounds like the sound is somewhere behind you so you look behind. Then the snail suddenly changes colours and it's like it is invisible. Now you lost your food. The snails will not make sounds when they do not feel threatened. There are also some larger prey. Deeil. They look like deers/antilopes. The males are black with pale blue and white stripes. The females are darker red with black and silvery grey and gold-ish yellow markings. Like an antilope and a doe mixed together. They are fast, but catch-able. Both gender have white sandy-yellow hooves. The males have antlers like a buck, while females have antlers like antilopes. They are protective over their young and live in large group. They mostly hide. Their meat is healthy and it can be enough to keep you from hunger for a few days. Another big prey is the Farasikada. This creature is kind of big, but you won't see them often. A Farasikada looks like a mix of different animals. The animals they look most like is a horse. The body of a Farasikada is like a horse without fur, but a dolphin skin. They do only have hooves on their hind legs. Their front legs have crocodile like paws. It looks like they have 2 eyes, and on the same place as horses do(These 2 eyes look like crocodile eyes). But actually they have 4 eyes, two of them are more on the front of their face and barely visable. They are creatures that mainly live in the water, and not show themselves a lot on land. They have a crocodile like tail, because they can't swim fast enough if they won't have it. They can breath both under water and on land. This mean that they have gills. They also have pretty big necks. Just a tiny bit longer than those of a horse, but with a much bigger circumference. They do have horse mane on their necks. They also have a longer mouth, just like horses do. But the teeth are very different. These creatures are omnivores, and have large teeth to kill their prey with. I cannot really describe the teeth, so here a picture of what they kinda look like.
Farasikada carnivore teeth
But further in their mouth, they do have herbivore cheek teeth. The colour of a Farasikada is different for both genders. The males mainly are white. They can have green or red stripes on their tail or body. The females mainly are brown or grey, without any rare colour. Both male and female mainly have white or black mane, and can have ANY eye colour. Even tho they look weird and slighty aggressive, they are pretty peacefull creatures. Most eat more plants than meat. The meat they mainly eat is fish or they eat Deeils. They also eat insects, and prefer Hell GrootBeetles. Yes, these horse-like creatures are resistant to most poison, too. It is not easy to catch a Farasikada. Only creatures that are bigger than horse can catch them alone, but these beasts are strong. They can easily wound you because they have so many sharp teeth. So most creatures who wanna eat one, almost always hunt one down in a group of 2-3 animals. A creature this big can feed lots of mouths tho. And since they mainly live under water, they are hard to find too.
Farasikada sketch.(Click for bigger image)
Food - Herbivores
There are a lot of different kinds of plants and fruits which only grow on Kishawan Island. One of them is the PinkuFruit. This fruit is a bright pink and has orange specks. It has a vine on it, just like a pumpkin. It is not very juicy, but it does taste really good. Really sweet. Because it looks poisonous from the outside, most animals refuse to eat it. There is another fruit called the LeroFruit. It round fruit. It has a green peel. From the inside, it is like a banana(Not the same shape, more like the same structure) but orange. It is a sensitive fruit, when you drop it, the peel can totally fall off of it. The peel is poisonous too, so you should not eat it, only the inside. There is no juice in the fruit, and it kinda tastes like a bitter apple. An other fruit is called the ReaperCreeperFruit. It has a reason to be called like that. The Reaper part comes from the Grim Reaper and immediately gets related to death. The creeper part is because the leaves of the fruit grow all around the fruits and many animals find it creepy. And the fruit part because it is a fruit. This fruit also gets called the DeathBerry. The DeathBerry is a hard to obtain fruit. DeathBerries grow in a bunch of around 30 berries. Around that bunch, the leaves of the DeathBerry grow. A bunch of berries is totally surrounded by leaves, except for when they are not ripe yet. The leaves of the berries are extremely poisonous, so you cannot eat them. They also have the same effect of a singing nettle, but worse. When you touch them, it really hurts. But it also has a worse effect. Since the leaves are poisonous, you will get the poison in your blood when you touch the leaves. When nothing is done against it, your blood will start to clot and you will slowly die. So do not touch the leaves. When you want the berries, you should try to get the leaves away or just punch the bunches of berries with leaves around them untill some berries fall off? I don't know. But why risk your life for some berries? Because the berries are very juicy! They contain lots and lots of vitamins, and when you are thirsty, eating a berry will lesses your thirst. A lot. They also never rot. So you can store them somewhere for if something happens. It is always handy to have some of these berries lieng around. Also, the berries are good to eat when you are ill. They can make the illness fo away! ;p And there is more fruit! TigerFruit. It is brown with cream tiger-ish stripes. It look a bit more oval-like and has bumps on it. It grows on smaller trees with blue leaves and since it doesn't grow high, short animals can reach them too. It's surface is kind of hard and it's peeled off to get to the juichy part inside. It is healthy and delicious! Now to the plants. There is one plant, called the BlackDiablo. Diablo for short. Diablo is a plant that eats meat. It is pretty big, just a little bit smaller than Nathan, and it eats big creatures. It mainly loves to eat GrootBeetles and Deeils. They are pretty uncommon and can be eaten. But they are so dangerous, most creatures just walk past them. They are a nice meal tho, and around 2 bear sized animals can eat from it to fully reduce their hunger to 0. The plants can hide by placing their 'head' on the ground.(His head is like the head of a venus fly trap. The part he catches flies with but without the teeth looking things.) His head is pretty flat, so then it is hard to see and he can hide his head between the big leaves that always grow around a Diablo. He does not have things like teeth, but he has a vine in his head which many call a tongue. The Diablo can shoot it to a prey and it will get stuck in it's body(like an arrow). It will then start pulling the prey towards his 'head'. When the prey is close enough to his head, he will open his 'mouth' and just push it against the prey. The prey will slowy die because of the acid that comes from the Diablo. This way the Diablo 'eats' his prey, by sorta making it perish with the acid. Nobody exactly knows how he can live this way, or if he maybe just does this because he likes killing. The only thing we know is that dieng this way is extremely uncomfortable. And cruel.
Kishawan Island is a mysterious and unique island. Nathan found it because he was taken in a boat by some humans. When he saw land, he took his chance and jumped out of the boat, swimming to the island. When he arrived there, it was snowing, yet it wasn't winter. It was cold, but not extremely cold either. When he started to explore, it stopped snowing. He found out that the terrain of the island varies a lot. Most of it is grass, but one place seems burned and on a little island that is really close to Kishawan, there's only sand. Weird plants and mushrooms grow on the island, too. After exploring for like and hour, Nathan found a den, which made him remember the old den in Endless Plains, where he once lived. He decided to live there with his family.
Inferno Island - all info
Inferno Island is the tiny island which is just a few meters away from Kishawan island. Because it has the shape of a Jelly Bean, many creatures(Which know about the existance of jelly beans) call the island 'Jelly Bean Island'. Others just think it as a part of Kishawan Island, and when they say Kishawan Island they also mean Inferno Island. It's really hot on the little island and the only terrain there is sand. There is no dirt, no stone on the ground, just sand. There is a den on the island, but it is not taken by any group. Two kinds of cactuses grow on the island. The first one is called a NiruCactus. It's the cactus with little pink flowers on it. You can't eat the cactus, and the needles are poisonous. But when you can cut them open without touching them, a sweet blue juice will come out of it. It tastes really good, and is full of vitamins. The other cactus is a PanduCactus. These have red-ish fruits growing on them. The fruits smell disgusting, so most creatures don't eat them. But some say they have eaten it, and it is the most delicious fruit in the world. Some also say it is really poisonous, and that loved ones of them have died eating the fruit. We are not sure. The needles of the cactus are not poisonous tho, but they hurt when you touch them and are hard to pull out of your skin. There is one kind of insect living on Inferno Island, called the CamoMantis. Most call it Diggers. It's like a sand coloured praying mantis. Diggers are slightly smaller than the praying mantis, and they hide in the sand by digging a hole and hiding under it. They can hold their breath for 30 minutes so when you want to find these insects you gotta dig in the sand.
The climate
The climate on Kishawan Island is not natural at all. The weather changes a lot. Sometimes it snows, sometimes it rain or hails and sometimes there is a sandstorm(Even tho nobody knows where all the sand comes from). On most places of the island it is warm. Not hot, just warm, and that is very comfortable. But on one little place on the island, it is really cold. There is a pond there, which is froze and the snow doesn't melt there. And on Inferno Island, it's extremely hot. Nobody really knows how the climate came to be the way it is. Maybe we will find out one day.
Food - carnivores
Lots of different kinds of animals live here. A list of a few of them is written in the species section on the site. So every animal you can imagine, could be walking around on the island. But there are a few insects that are very common on the island, and which you can only find on this island. One of them is the GrootBeetle. It is a beetle which is bigger than most other beetles. They can become about 20 centimeter high, and 25 long. There are 2 kinds of GrootBeetles. The Heaven GrootBeetles and the Hell GrootBeetles. The Heaven ones taste good. They are mostly green, and have blue spots all over them. The Hell ones taste extremely delicious, but are extremely poisonous too. They also have 'teeth' which they can attack with. So the Hell GrootBeetles are pretty dangerous. They also are blue, and have green spots too. So what is the difference between Heaven and Hell beetles? The Hell ones have darker spots than Heaven ones, and they act more aggressive. So really watch out when hunting this prey. An other insect that lives on the island is a Hopper. These creatures look like grass hoppers. The problem is, they are really tiny and fast. The males can be red and yellow only, but the females can be red, yellow and purple. The biggest difference between males and females is that the females always have black stripes on them. The size of a Hopper is mostly about 7 milimeters to 1 centimeter,and because of their size, also get eaten by GrootBeetles. They do live in groups of around 500 Hoppers, so you mostly find them with a big group. Still they are really hard to catch. So why would you catch a tiny creature that is so hard to catch? Because they are yummy and very healty! They are especially good to eat when you are sick. And there are also SonarSnails. Sounds like an easy meal, a snail. But they are not. These little beasts can make all kinds of noises in a very weird way. Then can make it sound like they are somewhere else. They can also change colour like a cameleon. So for example. You see a snail, want to eat it but suddenly it makes a yelping sound. It sounds like the sound is somewhere behind you so you look behind. Then the snail suddenly changes colours and it's like it is invisible. Now you lost your food. The snails will not make sounds when they do not feel threatened. There are also some larger prey. Deeil. They look like deers/antilopes. The males are black with pale blue and white stripes. The females are darker red with black and silvery grey and gold-ish yellow markings. Like an antilope and a doe mixed together. They are fast, but catch-able. Both gender have white sandy-yellow hooves. The males have antlers like a buck, while females have antlers like antilopes. They are protective over their young and live in large group. They mostly hide. Their meat is healthy and it can be enough to keep you from hunger for a few days. Another big prey is the Farasikada. This creature is kind of big, but you won't see them often. A Farasikada looks like a mix of different animals. The animals they look most like is a horse. The body of a Farasikada is like a horse without fur, but a dolphin skin. They do only have hooves on their hind legs. Their front legs have crocodile like paws. It looks like they have 2 eyes, and on the same place as horses do(These 2 eyes look like crocodile eyes). But actually they have 4 eyes, two of them are more on the front of their face and barely visable. They are creatures that mainly live in the water, and not show themselves a lot on land. They have a crocodile like tail, because they can't swim fast enough if they won't have it. They can breath both under water and on land. This mean that they have gills. They also have pretty big necks. Just a tiny bit longer than those of a horse, but with a much bigger circumference. They do have horse mane on their necks. They also have a longer mouth, just like horses do. But the teeth are very different. These creatures are omnivores, and have large teeth to kill their prey with. I cannot really describe the teeth, so here a picture of what they kinda look like.
Farasikada carnivore teeth
But further in their mouth, they do have herbivore cheek teeth. The colour of a Farasikada is different for both genders. The males mainly are white. They can have green or red stripes on their tail or body. The females mainly are brown or grey, without any rare colour. Both male and female mainly have white or black mane, and can have ANY eye colour. Even tho they look weird and slighty aggressive, they are pretty peacefull creatures. Most eat more plants than meat. The meat they mainly eat is fish or they eat Deeils. They also eat insects, and prefer Hell GrootBeetles. Yes, these horse-like creatures are resistant to most poison, too. It is not easy to catch a Farasikada. Only creatures that are bigger than horse can catch them alone, but these beasts are strong. They can easily wound you because they have so many sharp teeth. So most creatures who wanna eat one, almost always hunt one down in a group of 2-3 animals. A creature this big can feed lots of mouths tho. And since they mainly live under water, they are hard to find too.
Farasikada sketch.(Click for bigger image)
Food - Herbivores
There are a lot of different kinds of plants and fruits which only grow on Kishawan Island. One of them is the PinkuFruit. This fruit is a bright pink and has orange specks. It has a vine on it, just like a pumpkin. It is not very juicy, but it does taste really good. Really sweet. Because it looks poisonous from the outside, most animals refuse to eat it. There is another fruit called the LeroFruit. It round fruit. It has a green peel. From the inside, it is like a banana(Not the same shape, more like the same structure) but orange. It is a sensitive fruit, when you drop it, the peel can totally fall off of it. The peel is poisonous too, so you should not eat it, only the inside. There is no juice in the fruit, and it kinda tastes like a bitter apple. An other fruit is called the ReaperCreeperFruit. It has a reason to be called like that. The Reaper part comes from the Grim Reaper and immediately gets related to death. The creeper part is because the leaves of the fruit grow all around the fruits and many animals find it creepy. And the fruit part because it is a fruit. This fruit also gets called the DeathBerry. The DeathBerry is a hard to obtain fruit. DeathBerries grow in a bunch of around 30 berries. Around that bunch, the leaves of the DeathBerry grow. A bunch of berries is totally surrounded by leaves, except for when they are not ripe yet. The leaves of the berries are extremely poisonous, so you cannot eat them. They also have the same effect of a singing nettle, but worse. When you touch them, it really hurts. But it also has a worse effect. Since the leaves are poisonous, you will get the poison in your blood when you touch the leaves. When nothing is done against it, your blood will start to clot and you will slowly die. So do not touch the leaves. When you want the berries, you should try to get the leaves away or just punch the bunches of berries with leaves around them untill some berries fall off? I don't know. But why risk your life for some berries? Because the berries are very juicy! They contain lots and lots of vitamins, and when you are thirsty, eating a berry will lesses your thirst. A lot. They also never rot. So you can store them somewhere for if something happens. It is always handy to have some of these berries lieng around. Also, the berries are good to eat when you are ill. They can make the illness fo away! ;p And there is more fruit! TigerFruit. It is brown with cream tiger-ish stripes. It look a bit more oval-like and has bumps on it. It grows on smaller trees with blue leaves and since it doesn't grow high, short animals can reach them too. It's surface is kind of hard and it's peeled off to get to the juichy part inside. It is healthy and delicious! Now to the plants. There is one plant, called the BlackDiablo. Diablo for short. Diablo is a plant that eats meat. It is pretty big, just a little bit smaller than Nathan, and it eats big creatures. It mainly loves to eat GrootBeetles and Deeils. They are pretty uncommon and can be eaten. But they are so dangerous, most creatures just walk past them. They are a nice meal tho, and around 2 bear sized animals can eat from it to fully reduce their hunger to 0. The plants can hide by placing their 'head' on the ground.(His head is like the head of a venus fly trap. The part he catches flies with but without the teeth looking things.) His head is pretty flat, so then it is hard to see and he can hide his head between the big leaves that always grow around a Diablo. He does not have things like teeth, but he has a vine in his head which many call a tongue. The Diablo can shoot it to a prey and it will get stuck in it's body(like an arrow). It will then start pulling the prey towards his 'head'. When the prey is close enough to his head, he will open his 'mouth' and just push it against the prey. The prey will slowy die because of the acid that comes from the Diablo. This way the Diablo 'eats' his prey, by sorta making it perish with the acid. Nobody exactly knows how he can live this way, or if he maybe just does this because he likes killing. The only thing we know is that dieng this way is extremely uncomfortable. And cruel.