Elmoey'a Fungal Jungle

Place

Place Name:

Elmoey'a Fungal Jungle

Biome:

Fungal Jungle

Size:

Unknown

Continent:

Unknown

Subcontinent

Unknown

History

Historical Overview

The estimated age of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle is said to be around 48 millions of years. Scholars all agree and confirm that its territory was much wider and populated during the times before the Awakening Age, even after a minor shrinking occurred during the Industrial Age because of pollution. Since ancient times the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle has always been an important landmark and meeting point for all the wandering zu’aan tribes of the south of Zelan. Unfortunately, the spreading of the mushroom sickness after the kin’toni attacks has heavily reduced the migratory flow along with religious and food tourism. The religious importance of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle came with the Middle Ages.

More precisely in 3E 215, when a prophet and philosopher whose name has never been mentioned in any sacred scriptures, referred to as “The Bright One”, claimed that a vision showed him the Jungle. He or she believed that the one of the Gods of Taerel had chosen the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle as their resting place after the creation of the Zelan landmass. The Bright One soon gathered a large number of believers who used the Jungle’s territories and its nature resources to perform religious rituals. No buildings were created by the believers, even though the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle still shows some ancient signs of the passage of The Bright One’s followers.

Through the Ages, the religion brought by The Bright One never really went away and even after the calamities occurred during the Awakening Age, still now some very old monks from the Tinon Tribal zu’aan make their way to the sacred places in the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle to pray. The Industrial Age (3E 2600 – 3E 2700) saw a partial exploitation of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle’s nature resources along with air and water pollution that caused a minor shrinking of the territory. During that period, many novelists and all types of authors and artists used this place, once considered one of the most beautiful in Zelan, as the inspiring muse for the rants against the excessive use of machines and the Industrial Age’s general impact on the whole of Taerel’s livability.

Among the works that took inspiration from the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle’s beauty and decay, there is a short novel called “The A’yerrad”, a very famous story about the adventurous journey of a heroine whose mission is to restore life to the dying continent of Zelan. With the Awakening Age and the first kin’toni raids, the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle continued more rapidly its journey towards decay: an unexplicable sickness took over some parasite mushroom specimens and it quickly spread to more and more fungi, trees and plants causing not only the death of the latters but also the extinction of several animal species. To this day, Tinon Tribal zu’aan are still keeping and watching over this territory, hoping to restore its ancient beauty with the help of science and medical arts.

Their scholars are doing everything they can to save the surviving animal and nature species.

Geography

The Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle is situated in the south of the Zelan landmass. There was a time during the Ancient Age (2E 700 – 2E 2200), when the Jungle had reached its maximum expansion (around 15 millions square kilometers). By the middle of the Industrial Age, though, the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle had already lost a third of its territory: from then on the situation began to worsen. With the beginning of the Awakening Age and the constant kin’toni raids, a mushroom sickness spread and killed a huge numbers of fungi species and plants: this lead to a massive shrinking of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle that to this day only measures around 1024 square kilometers.

The Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle currently extends from the north, a region that borders on the south of the province of Nysalt, to the south, where the En’den’ym Wastes separate it from the coast. It has the same extent from the west to the east where it borders on the Ryn’ia River on the west side and with the En’den’ym Wastes again on the east part. The Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle can be divided in four main regions: The eastern hilly region, characterized by gentle slopes and natural mounds where in the past a huge number of religious followers of The Bright One gathered there to pray. The east area of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle is also the second most populated region, since the mushroom sickness only caught a few specimens that have been quickly rooted out.

Here lies the historical core of the Jungle: no buildings were created by the followers of The Bright One to worship. The believers relied in fact on the mound formations that were said to be the tombs of the deity who created Zelan and their angelic servants. The western swampy soils where most of the water of the Jungle is, unlike the other almost dried out areas. Here most of the animal and plant species still live: the mushroom sickness hasn’t heavily impacted this region and the blarad still find a warm and humid climate and food to eat. The west area is in fact the most populated of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle and most of the mushroom species that are still sane grow there.

The southern dying lands which are expected to join the En’den’ym Wastes territory in fifty years if the attempts to revive that area fail. The scholars are working hard to find a solution to the south area problem: the place in fact cannot be considered dead yet as some vegetation and animal species still survive there. The En’den’ym Wastes that extend right before the southern dying lands of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle were once, in fact, a growing spot for the Jungle’s vegetation, now disappeared. The middle-northern region where the mushroom sickness began its spreading, which is characterized by an overpopulation of pest species such as the shy’tasi and by now dead vegetation and fossils: this area soon gained the name of “The Elmoey’a Cemetery”.

The place is officially considered not able to grow any more sane vegetation.

Plants

For Ages the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle has been a fertile ground with plenty of vegetation including a huge variety of mushroom species. With the arrival of the kin’toni in the Awakening Age though (3E 3000 – 3E 3415), more and more fungi species developed an inexplicable sort of “sickness” that soon infected some plants and even poisoned most of the drinking water basins. To this day, a fifth of the plant species that used to inhabit the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle are now extinct, including several types of edible mushrooms. With the impending Ice Age, the hostile climate is causing the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle to shrink even more. Among the most important plant species and mushrooms that used to inhabit or still inhabit the area there are:

Nusori: this type of mushroom used to be very common in the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle’s territory before the beginning of the Awakening Age and the first kin’toni attacks. Some sane nusori cells are kept under observation by the scholars who are still trying to revive the mushrooms and create a safe place for them to grow again. The nusori were also known as “winged mushrooms” for their peculiar characteristic: their black caps were covered in white, large scales that stood up like numerous wings. Every part of the nusori was edible and very important for the diet of those who lived in the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle before the Awakening Age.

Mor’eld: being another mushroom endangered species, the mor’eld is constantly kept under control by the local Tinon Tribal zu’aan’s scholars. Altough it was never considered edible due to its bad taste and difficulty being digested, the mor’eld was an important medication for the people inhabiting the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle’s territory before the arrival of the kin’toni, since it had a great utility as a pain killer. Now less than six hundred mor’eld specimens are alive and growing, preserved by the scholars in some special greenhouses that have, until now, prevented the diffusion of the sickness. The mor’eld is a small fungus characterized by white and translucent cap and stem, covered in small green scales: its characteristic pungent but pleasant smell is well known by the scholars.

Mysuldra: this plant is one of the last species to have shown signs of the sickness after the kin’toni raids in the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle’s territories. The mysuldra has always been known with the second name of “fungal house”, since it was for Ages the main host for the parasite fungi living in the Jungle. This is probably what caused its decay: sick parasite fungi tend to pass their sickness to their hosts over time. Luckily enough, many mysuldra specimens remained untouched for now, and the scholars seem to be in time for trying to save the plant species from extinction. The mysuldra is characterized by long, narrow leaves coloured green and purple and a fairly thick trunk. Rarely mysuldra specimens reach an height of fourty centimeters, making the plant one of the shortest among the ones that populate the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle.

Animals

Although there are still many animal species living in the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle, the latter’s constant shrinking and the death of most of the edible resources are causing a great part of the Jungle’s fauna to migrate elsewhere or even die, mainly because of the changing climate in the insects’ case. Most of fungi eater species are trying to migrate elsewhere to find their food, but most of the time, finding themselves out of their natural habitat causes their death. To this day, around fifteen species from the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle are considered endangered, but scholars say there could be more.

Lye’lera: the lye’lera is an insect species that used to thrive around the watery soils of the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle. Unfortunately, insects have been the first ones to suffer the effects of the Jungle’s change in temperature. The lye’lera is now an endangered species: the scholars have expressed concern since there insects are vital for the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle’s ecosystem, them being pollinating insects. Scholars are still trying to find a substitute to the lye’lera who can survive to the lowering of temperatures in the Jungle, and until now they seem to have at least twenty-three candidates. Lye’lera are characterized by a big body and disproportionately small wings that causes them to not be able to fly too high above the ground.

The lye’lera developed a sting as a defence mechanism.

Shy’tasy: unlike the lye’lera, the shy’tasy have shown to be growing more and more in number, with the behaviour of a pest species. The reason is most likely the loss of lye’lera specimens themselves, who used to keep the shy’tasy numbers under control. The shy’tasy seem to contribute to the spreading of the vegetation sickness by eating infected mushrooms and scattering their excrement on other mushrooms and plants. Along with the substitutes for the lye’lera, scholars are also looking for insect species that can prey on the shy’tasy to avoid the spreading on the sickness as much as possible. The shy’tasy have a thin, tapered body and very long legs (they usually measure three times more the body’s lenght). These insects use a sting to pierce into the mushrooms’ stems to feed on them.

Blarad: the blarad is a huge mammal that served as game for the zu’aan inhabiting the Elmoey’a Fungal Jungle before the Awakening Age. It is now illegal to hunt down this animal as stated by the Tinon Tribal zu’aan, since the lack of food is causing its slow walk towards extinction. Luckily enough, the scholars are testing some blarad specimens to try and tame them to make them house pets and avoid their disappearence. What works against them, though, is the blarad’s large size and need for a huge amount of food that can only be found in fungal jungles. The blarad’s appearence is characterized by a wide body and a very long neck, six paws and a long fur which most common colours are pink, orange and a white, red and black spotted pattern.

Historical Timeline of Ages

Age Name	Dates	Controller
Stone Age	Before 1E 0	Unknown
Copper Age	1E 1–1E 2200	Unknown
Bronze Age	1E 2200–1E 4400	Unknown
Iron Age	2E 0–2E 700	Unknown
Ancient Age	2E 700–2E 2200	Unknown
Middle Age	3E 0–3E 2050	Unknown
Early Modern Age	3E 2050–3E 2600	Unknown
Industrial Age	3E 2600–3E 2700	Unknown
Machine Age	3E 2700–3E 2800	Unknown
Atomic Age	3E 2800–3E 2850	Unknown
Space Age	3E 2850–3E 2875	Unknown
Information Age	3E 2875–3E 2900	Unknown
Genetic Age	3E 2950–3E 3000	Unknown
Awakening Age	3E 3000–3E 3415	Unknown
Twilight Age	4E 0–4E 500	Tinon Tribal Zu'aan}

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