Just a little bit on the world: Karamunduria The land of Karamunduria initially recovered fairly well from The Dark Times, then her people eventually succumbed to their baser instincts. It is beset by roving bandits that travel throughout the countryside, pillaging and murdering. There are fewer basic resources in this land, such as water, food, building materials, and so on. The bandits throughout the land make this situation worse by greedily taking all they can acquire for themselves. The outback is divided roughly equally into forests, plains/deserts, and mountainous regions. Towns and civilized areas dot the circumference of the coastline. There are some serviceable roads, but it’s not as well maintained as most of the rest of Syseria. Flora throughout the forests includes tough-leaved eucalyptus, and in the northlands, dry rainforests and brigelow scrub dominate the wilderness. There are over 20,000 species of vascular, and 8,000 species of non-vascular plantlife. These include the Wollemi pine, Cycad palm, grass tree, thousands of species of wildflower, acacia forests, tussock grasslands, and faboideae (pea-flowered legumes) just to name a few of the more common plants. Wildflowers, including everlasting daisies, turn the arid and savanna grassland areas of Kuramenduria into carpets of colour after rain. Native forests are limited to wetter coastal districts, and rainforests are found mainly on the north coast. The most common plantlife are those that can survive and thrive in arid conditions. Still other regions have been fully siphoned dry of resources by wanderers. Little grows in these regions. Water is extremely scarce. Two of these wasteland regions in particular are home to The Rock Crawlers and The Liberated. The Rock Crawlers live in mountainous regions, using Wyverns they tamed to navigate the treacherous bluffs. The Liberated roam the desert regions, plundering and taking resources from the land and the people. The fauna of Karamunduria consists of a massive variety of animals, some native, and some brought by traders or wandered through the portals. Many of these species are unique to Karamunduria. Mammals and marsupials abound: Kangaroos, koala bears, dingoes, spotted quoll, tasmanian tigers and devils, sugar gliders, and many more. Spiders, snakes, and reptiles are truly able to thrive throughout the land. Some grow to enormous proportions, although most encountered near civilized areas will not be so huge. The saltwater crocodile can grow up to 22’ and weigh as much as 3,000 lbs. Blue-tongued lizards are the largest member of the skink species. Some 800 species of birds call Karamunduria their home. More than half of these species are unique to Karamunduria. Raiding Tribes Raiders of the land (parasite is not too strong a word) take what they need to survive and what they want for their own personal pleasure. Perhaps unable, unwilling, or having been blackmailed or cajoled into the lifestyle, they will not work to feed, clothe, and equip themselves. Instead, they take what they want and need from traveling caravans, merchants, wanderers, and adventurers. Each tribe is led by the most violent and vicious individual in the tribe. Her or his right hand people will be rewarded with special treatment and the choicest cut of the loot to keep them loyal. Underlings are kept in line through the promise of violence. Such tribes carve their lives out in the forsaken regions of Karamunduria. Badlands, cliffs, mountains, and deserts are where they often make their homes. This happens due to two basic factors, one is being forced away from the choicest lands due to their outlaw nature. Two is that the remoteness insulates the tribes from retribution to some degree.
