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			\|Biome = Lush Tundra
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 The migratory ungulate herds, because they are unable to survive in the winter, migrate north with the thaw and continue their migratory route as far north as it will allow, and consume all plant life that grows there and blooms from being pushed out by the thaw. The animals give birth nearly instantly upon returning to the plains in spring and the young can then grow up extraordinarily quickly in time for winter; if an animal doesn't reach reproductive maturity in spring it's considered a loss and doesn't get bred. This extreme eating throughout the year is termed "hyperphagia", a state of extremely voracious eating behavior that can only be achieved through hormanal control.
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	'''Tundra Fauna (migratory and plains species)'''		'''Tundra Fauna (migratory and plains species)'''

	~~Animal life in the~~ Agaro Lush Tundra ~~is dictated~~ by ~~hypermobility and the violent pendulum~~ of the ~~subpolar seasons~~. ~~While distinctively~~ removed from the ~~intensely~~ localized ~~and~~ vertical ~~habitat~~ isolation of the Aer Canyon Pit, Agaro is ~~instead the landscape~~ of ~~great~~, ~~sweeping migrations; the open~~ plains are ~~teeming with~~ huge, cold~~-adapted grazing ungulates, hotly pursued~~ by ~~opportunistic~~ scavengers ~~and~~ opportunistic ~~apex~~ predators.		Fauna of Agaro Lush Tundra can be seen divided by whether they migrate seasonally to inhabit it or else they are permanent inhabitants of the Agaro plains. Although significantly removed from the hyper-localized vertical isolation found in the Aer Canyon Pit, Agaro is essentially a region of large, sprawling migratory routes. It is in this plains that many ungulate grazers live – in large herds that are huge and adapted for cold – they are followed very closely by numerous scavengers, as well as opportunistic predators.
			These grazers, due to the windy, cold environment and boggy, unstable ground have adapted to having extremely warm, insulative double-coats of fur and huge reserves of subcutaneous fat. Their hooves are often of huge proportions and fanned out very far so as to create much greater contact with the peat in which they walk as a broad "snow-shoe" so as to travel easily across the landscape regardless of whether there is snow on the peat or else just peat itself. Since there is nowhere to shelter in the plains on their own there must be numerous chase hunters. These are cursiorial running endurance-hunters whose speed, endurance and pack tactics allows them to take down larger grazers by wearing them out.
	~~To endure~~ the ~~freezing winds~~ and unstable, ~~boggy terrain, these grazers typically develop highly insulating~~ double-coats and ~~store large~~ reserves of subcutaneous fat~~; their enormous, widely-splayed~~ hooves ~~double~~ as broad ~~snowshoes~~ across the peat~~, supporting them over bog and snow~~. ~~With no physical terrain cover~~ on ~~the endless flat, predators~~ are ~~obligate pursuit~~ hunters~~: cursorial~~ endurance~~-runners that use bothpack~~ tactics ~~and a profound ability~~ to ~~track their moving prey across the endless, low-lying lands,~~ wearing it out ~~before catching it~~.

	'''Wetland Fauna (muskeg and peat-basin species)'''		'''Wetland Fauna (muskeg and peat-basin species)'''
			These very marshy, bogy areas (muskeg) flood with great abundance and intensity when the summer ice melts off, causing massive amounts of water to flood through the holes in the peatlands. In the summertime, these wetlands bring in numerous grazing animals in form similar to waterfowl and numerous different types of insects that eat all these new forms of plants, and which are also eaten by hundreds of these somewhat amphibious ungulates. These wetland dwellers have had to adapt with physical features that facilitate existence in this flooded area. The typical creatures dwelling here have hydrophilic, or water-repelling, fur. These grazers can often be seen to partiallywebbedfeet, and their bodies are generally extremely buoyant so that they are able to travel easily through relatively shallow water. Theshallow, peat-basin lakes and marshes of Agaro become large nurseries for nearly all of the migratory life in Agaro-all these creatures and their young race to reproduce in this time frame so that young can be produced and can hatch, be nursed, and then either reproduce again in the summertime (and be a successful reproductive organism) or then get fat enough to be able to migrate south. Under the water, huge bottom-feeding detritivores are eating all this exploding organic matter, breaking it down with the peat in the rapid cycle before the returning cold can kill them.
	~~The extensive~~ muskeg ~~(peat-bogs~~) and ~~melt-water basins explode with intense biological activity~~ when the summer ~~thaw ruptures~~ the ~~surface ice and pools up~~ in the ~~hollows of~~ the ~~peatland. The ensuing floods invite~~ in ~~massive populations~~ of ~~migratory, waterfowl-like grazers~~, and ~~their corresponding insect populations bloom in unimaginable swarms and~~ are ~~fed upon~~ by ~~masses~~ of these ~~semi-aquatic~~ ungulates.

	~~Inhabitants of the~~ flooded ~~peatlands typically possess specialized physical adaptations: their fur is often hydrophobic (~~water-~~repellent)~~, ~~their limbs may~~ be ~~partiallywebbed~~, and their bodies are ~~naturally~~ extremely buoyant~~, allowing them~~ to ~~maneuver with ease~~ through shallow~~, boggy~~ water. ~~The shallow~~ peat-basin lakes and marshes ~~are massive, seasonal~~ nurseries for nearly the ~~entirety of Agaro's~~ migratory life, all ~~scrambling~~ to ~~spawn~~ and ~~nest~~. ~~Beneath~~ the water~~'s surface~~, huge ~~benthic detritivore communities~~ are ~~consuming~~ all ~~the~~ exploding ~~seasonal~~ organic ~~material~~, ~~fast~~ breaking it down ~~within~~ the ~~highly acidic~~ peat, before the returning ~~frost~~ can ~~reclaim its hold~~.

	'''Boreal Ridge Fauna (taiga and refuge species)'''		'''Boreal Ridge Fauna (taiga and refuge species)'''

	~~Emerging from the flooded bogs in discrete, separate islands and outcrops on the rocky ridges are the~~ pockets of Agaro taiga (boreal forest), each a uniquely ~~localized biome with a distinct community~~. ~~Immune from the worst of~~ the polar gales, the ~~subarctic woodland contains arboreal~~ climbers,Opportunistic-Opportunistic scavengers ~~and cold-adapted ambush predators~~ of ~~these smaller, insulated woodlands. While~~ the ~~open-plain herds are nomadic migrants to be dispersed by weather and predation,many~~ ridge-dwellers are year-round ~~inhabitants~~ of ~~the forests~~.		The pockets of Agaro taiga (boreal forest), located upon the rocky outcroppings on separate islands amidst the otherwise boggy lands of the area, contain each uniquely isolated, contained biomes. These subarctic woodlands escape the polar gales due to the more elevated nature of their existence. While these forests may contain such things as climbers and ambush predators which rely on smaller animal prey and Opportunistic-Opportunistic scavengers, most of the ridge dwellers are year-round residents of their forest pockets. These fauna are often unable to escape being crushed and killed in their cold environments through movement like migration; instead they must learn to find and store vast amounts of food for the cold periods, or by creating a cache of fat for warmth. Alternatively, they must take advantage of the sub-nivean zone-the layer of the ground where it remains warm under thick snow cover-and so use burrows dug into the ground which are often inhabited by very cold-adapted creatures. The forests on the ridges also act as barriers against the extremely fierce polar gales that would otherwise destroy inhabitants less capable of evading them; it is necessary for species not adapted for movement through extreme weather to hide from the wind and the accompanying storms.

	These fauna ~~avoid~~ being crushed and killed by their ~~habitat's~~ cold, ~~extreme environment~~ by ~~caching abundant foods~~, ~~storing their own fatty reserves, or through exploiting~~ the sub-nivean zone-the ~~gap created by~~ the ~~deep winter snowcover~~ and the ~~frozen earth's~~ ground~~; this network of air~~-~~filled tunnels acts as insulated refuge for these smaller, less mobile~~ creatures ~~during~~ the ~~long winters. These woodlands~~ also ~~function~~ as ~~a key ecological bulwark~~ against the ~~creeping severity of the~~ polar gales; ~~those~~ species ~~unable~~ to ~~quickly out-maneuver the storms must be able to seek refuge within~~ the ~~woody cover~~ and the ~~under-snow environments offered by the taiga on the ridges~~.

	'''Behavioral Cycles (nomadism and seasonal hyperphagia)'''		'''Behavioral Cycles (nomadism and seasonal hyperphagia)'''

	~~Survival~~ in ~~the~~ Agaro is ~~determined solely by the brutal cycle of freezing and thawing~~. ~~Long stretches~~ of polar winter ~~forced all species able~~ to ~~tolerate it (but not~~ live ~~within it)~~ to ~~undergo harsh southern migrations~~, ~~while incapable fauna enter varying states~~ of torpor or ~~true~~ hibernation~~, suspending their~~ bodily functions ~~within their burrows and nests to survive the months of dark cold~~. ~~Conversely~~, ~~upon~~ the ~~melting of its snow~~ and ~~ice-cover the northern lands explode with life~~.		This cycle of survival in Agaro has a purely elemental explanation-it is all based on whether it is winter or summer. A long spell of polar winter caused many of the Agaro-bound creatures to migrate south in order to live through the frigid months; in the winter, unable to survive the cold on the plains, some of the non-migratory creatures were able to go into a state of true torpor or even hibernation in which all bodily functions were suspended. The winter season continued until its eventual melting, after which the entire region was once again allowed to flourish and blossom.
			The migratory ungulate herds, because they are unable to survive in the winter, migrate north with the thaw and continue their migratory route as far north as it will allow, and consume all plant life that grows there and blooms from being pushed out by the thaw. The animals give birth nearly instantly upon returning to the plains in spring and the young can then grow up extraordinarily quickly in time for winter; if an animal doesn't reach reproductive maturity in spring it's considered a loss and doesn't get bred. This extreme eating throughout the year is termed "hyperphagia", a state of extremely voracious eating behavior that can only be achieved through hormanal control.
	~~Driven by seasonal hyperphagia, a voracious and hormonally driven hunger, those~~ migratory herds ~~that traveled south~~ to ~~escape~~ the ~~cold gorge themselves on every emerging bud~~, ~~leaf~~, and ~~sprout~~ that ~~pushes through~~ the ~~newly softened earth~~; ~~birthing~~ is ~~timed almost instantaneously with arrival~~, ~~and young are capable~~ of ~~maturing with extraordinary speed~~.

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	Agar Lush Tundra is a sub-polar lowland covering the arctic portion of the Twilight Age world. In many ways it is the antithesis of Aeni Mountains' dead alpine ice and Adisay's parched plains; this landscape is one of overwhelming cold life. The ground is a colossal field of rolling tundra, a morass of swampy moss basins, and frigid wetlands, where the temperature's extremity is the direct cause of abundant biological life, the explosive thaws, and constant groundwater saturation, which permeates the hostile northland.		Agar Lush Tundra is a sub-polar lowland covering the arctic portion of the Twilight Age world. In many ways it is the antithesis of Aeni Mountains' dead alpine ice and Adisay's parched plains; this landscape is one of overwhelming cold life. The ground is a colossal field of rolling tundra, a morass of swampy moss basins, and frigid wetlands, where the temperature's extremity is the direct cause of abundant biological life, the explosive thaws, and constant groundwater saturation, which permeates the hostile northland.

	'''Topography and geology'''		'''Topography and geology'''

	While Agar is a largely flat terrain when compared to the southern continental masses, the topography is extremely tumultuous at ground level. The tundra is a sprawling field of subtle, rolling hills cut through by low metamorphic ridges, gently carving river valleys, and wide thermokarst basins the result of millennia of sporadic permafrost collapse. At first sight it seems to be an undulating plain, soft and level, but the surface is a volatile, treacherous surface of deeply saturated peat bogs, hidden melt water channels, and deeply fractured stone.		While Agar is a largely flat terrain when compared to the southern continental masses, the topography is extremely tumultuous at ground level. The tundra is a sprawling field of subtle, rolling hills cut through by low metamorphic ridges, gently carving river valleys, and wide thermokarst basins the result of millennia of sporadic permafrost collapse. At first sight it seems to be an undulating plain, soft and level, but the surface is a volatile, treacherous surface of deeply saturated peat bogs, hidden melt water channels, and deeply fractured stone.
	The geologic makeup of the basin is one of a base of deeply compressed permafrost sediments overlaid with the thick layers of rotting peat, topped with dense glacial tills, all marked with the devastating effects of receding continental ice sheets that scoured the plains with massive boulder deposits, scattered ice-scoured outcrops, and remnants of metamorphic bedrock. With the ground subject to a constant freeze and thaw the land buckles and shifts, churning with immense forces from constant cryoturbation.

	'''Climate and hydrography'''		The geologic makeup of the basin is one of a base of deeply compressed permafrost sediments overlaid with the thick layers of rotting peat, topped with dense glacial tills, all marked with the devastating effects of receding continental ice sheets that scoured the plains with massive boulder deposits, scattered ice-scoured outcrops, and remnants of metamorphic bedrock. With the ground subject to a constant freeze and thaw the land buckles and shifts, churning with immense forces from constant cryoturbation.

			'''Climate and hydrography'''

	Agar is an exceptionally harsh land in terms of climate, with each season possessing its own radical atmospheric conditions. While the winters are brutally dark and achingly long with ferocious wind beating against the endless tundra, the spring thaw turns Agar into a churning, flooding field where biological life explodes amidst the landscape changing flood waters, spurred on by the continuous daylight. In terms of hydrography, the tundra is extremely wet.		Agar is an exceptionally harsh land in terms of climate, with each season possessing its own radical atmospheric conditions. While the winters are brutally dark and achingly long with ferocious wind beating against the endless tundra, the spring thaw turns Agar into a churning, flooding field where biological life explodes amidst the landscape changing flood waters, spurred on by the continuous daylight. In terms of hydrography, the tundra is extremely wet.
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	Being a completely frozen permafrost based land the deeper layers prevent drainage, and the immense meltwater collected from the springtime thaw remains at the very surface. This causes a colossal network of flooded peat bogs, braided river systems, and interconnected wetlands, and the interaction between these fields and the northern airmasses cause heavy, cold fog to be prevalent in the warmer months, or in winter, the polar winds create constant snow storms and the thaw often involves rapid cold snaps and freezes.		Being a completely frozen permafrost based land the deeper layers prevent drainage, and the immense meltwater collected from the springtime thaw remains at the very surface. This causes a colossal network of flooded peat bogs, braided river systems, and interconnected wetlands, and the interaction between these fields and the northern airmasses cause heavy, cold fog to be prevalent in the warmer months, or in winter, the polar winds create constant snow storms and the thaw often involves rapid cold snaps and freezes.

	'''Traversability'''		'''Traversability'''

	Agar Lush Tundra is not an easy land to traverse, and its difficulty varies entirely by season. In the deep winter Agar freezes solid and the swampy terrain becomes solid highway of snow and ice. Traversing Agar during the spring thaw is, however, an incredibly tiresome, challenging task. The freezing ground collapses and floods, leaving travelers to march through a chest-high muskeg field, avoid numerous unseen thaws, and circle immense flooded rivers on an unending journey to find solid land.		Agar Lush Tundra is not an easy land to traverse, and its difficulty varies entirely by season. In the deep winter Agar freezes solid and the swampy terrain becomes solid highway of snow and ice. Traversing Agar during the spring thaw is, however, an incredibly tiresome, challenging task. The freezing ground collapses and floods, leaving travelers to march through a chest-high muskeg field, avoid numerous unseen thaws, and circle immense flooded rivers on an unending journey to find solid land.

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	== Animals ==		== Animals ==

	'''Tundra Fauna (migratory and plains species)'''		'''Tundra Fauna (migratory and plains species)'''

	Animal life in the Agaro Lush Tundra is dictated by hypermobility and the violent pendulum of the subpolar seasons. While distinctively removed from the intensely localized and vertical habitat isolation of the Aer Canyon Pit, Agaro is instead the landscape of great, sweeping migrations; the open plains are teeming with huge, cold-adapted grazing ungulates, hotly pursued by opportunistic scavengers and opportunistic apex predators.		Animal life in the Agaro Lush Tundra is dictated by hypermobility and the violent pendulum of the subpolar seasons. While distinctively removed from the intensely localized and vertical habitat isolation of the Aer Canyon Pit, Agaro is instead the landscape of great, sweeping migrations; the open plains are teeming with huge, cold-adapted grazing ungulates, hotly pursued by opportunistic scavengers and opportunistic apex predators.
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	To endure the freezing winds and unstable, boggy terrain, these grazers typically develop highly insulating double-coats and store large reserves of subcutaneous fat; their enormous, widely-splayed hooves double as broad snowshoes across the peat, supporting them over bog and snow. With no physical terrain cover on the endless flat, predators are obligate pursuit hunters: cursorial endurance-runners that use bothpack tactics and a profound ability to track their moving prey across the endless, low-lying lands, wearing it out before catching it.		To endure the freezing winds and unstable, boggy terrain, these grazers typically develop highly insulating double-coats and store large reserves of subcutaneous fat; their enormous, widely-splayed hooves double as broad snowshoes across the peat, supporting them over bog and snow. With no physical terrain cover on the endless flat, predators are obligate pursuit hunters: cursorial endurance-runners that use bothpack tactics and a profound ability to track their moving prey across the endless, low-lying lands, wearing it out before catching it.

	'''Wetland Fauna (muskeg and peat-basin species)'''		'''Wetland Fauna (muskeg and peat-basin species)'''

	The extensive muskeg (peat-bogs) and melt-water basins explode with intense biological activity when the summer thaw ruptures the surface ice and pools up in the hollows of the peatland. The ensuing floods invite in massive populations of migratory, waterfowl-like grazers, and their corresponding insect populations bloom in unimaginable swarms and are fed upon by masses of these semi-aquatic ungulates.		The extensive muskeg (peat-bogs) and melt-water basins explode with intense biological activity when the summer thaw ruptures the surface ice and pools up in the hollows of the peatland. The ensuing floods invite in massive populations of migratory, waterfowl-like grazers, and their corresponding insect populations bloom in unimaginable swarms and are fed upon by masses of these semi-aquatic ungulates.
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	Inhabitants of the flooded peatlands typically possess specialized physical adaptations: their fur is often hydrophobic (water-repellent), their limbs may be partiallywebbed, and their bodies are naturally extremely buoyant, allowing them to maneuver with ease through shallow, boggy water. The shallow peat-basin lakes and marshes are massive, seasonal nurseries for nearly the entirety of Agaro's migratory life, all scrambling to spawn and nest. Beneath the water's surface, huge benthic detritivore communities are consuming all the exploding seasonal organic material, fast breaking it down within the highly acidic peat, before the returning frost can reclaim its hold.		Inhabitants of the flooded peatlands typically possess specialized physical adaptations: their fur is often hydrophobic (water-repellent), their limbs may be partiallywebbed, and their bodies are naturally extremely buoyant, allowing them to maneuver with ease through shallow, boggy water. The shallow peat-basin lakes and marshes are massive, seasonal nurseries for nearly the entirety of Agaro's migratory life, all scrambling to spawn and nest. Beneath the water's surface, huge benthic detritivore communities are consuming all the exploding seasonal organic material, fast breaking it down within the highly acidic peat, before the returning frost can reclaim its hold.

	'''Boreal Ridge Fauna (taiga and refuge species)'''		'''Boreal Ridge Fauna (taiga and refuge species)'''

	Emerging from the flooded bogs in discrete, separate islands and outcrops on the rocky ridges are the pockets of Agaro taiga (boreal forest), each a uniquely localized biome with a distinct community. Immune from the worst of the polar gales, the subarctic woodland contains arboreal climbers,Opportunistic-Opportunistic scavengers and cold-adapted ambush predators of these smaller, insulated woodlands. While the open-plain herds are nomadic migrants to be dispersed by weather and predation,many ridge-dwellers are year-round inhabitants of the forests.		Emerging from the flooded bogs in discrete, separate islands and outcrops on the rocky ridges are the pockets of Agaro taiga (boreal forest), each a uniquely localized biome with a distinct community. Immune from the worst of the polar gales, the subarctic woodland contains arboreal climbers,Opportunistic-Opportunistic scavengers and cold-adapted ambush predators of these smaller, insulated woodlands. While the open-plain herds are nomadic migrants to be dispersed by weather and predation,many ridge-dwellers are year-round inhabitants of the forests.
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	These fauna avoid being crushed and killed by their habitat's cold, extreme environment by caching abundant foods, storing their own fatty reserves, or through exploiting the sub-nivean zone-the gap created by the deep winter snowcover and the frozen earth's ground; this network of air-filled tunnels acts as insulated refuge for these smaller, less mobile creatures during the long winters. These woodlands also function as a key ecological bulwark against the creeping severity of the polar gales; those species unable to quickly out-maneuver the storms must be able to seek refuge within the woody cover and the under-snow environments offered by the taiga on the ridges.		These fauna avoid being crushed and killed by their habitat's cold, extreme environment by caching abundant foods, storing their own fatty reserves, or through exploiting the sub-nivean zone-the gap created by the deep winter snowcover and the frozen earth's ground; this network of air-filled tunnels acts as insulated refuge for these smaller, less mobile creatures during the long winters. These woodlands also function as a key ecological bulwark against the creeping severity of the polar gales; those species unable to quickly out-maneuver the storms must be able to seek refuge within the woody cover and the under-snow environments offered by the taiga on the ridges.

	'''Behavioral Cycles (nomadism and seasonal hyperphagia)'''		'''Behavioral Cycles (nomadism and seasonal hyperphagia)'''

	Survival in the Agaro is determined solely by the brutal cycle of freezing and thawing. Long stretches of polar winter forced all species able to tolerate it (but not live within it) to undergo harsh southern migrations, while incapable fauna enter varying states of torpor or true hibernation, suspending their bodily functions within their burrows and nests to survive the months of dark cold. Conversely, upon the melting of its snow and ice-cover the northern lands explode with life.		Survival in the Agaro is determined solely by the brutal cycle of freezing and thawing. Long stretches of polar winter forced all species able to tolerate it (but not live within it) to undergo harsh southern migrations, while incapable fauna enter varying states of torpor or true hibernation, suspending their bodily functions within their burrows and nests to survive the months of dark cold. Conversely, upon the melting of its snow and ice-cover the northern lands explode with life.