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Adveneden Biome Data by SkyShadow

Adveneden Biome Data

SkyShadow

A data sheet about some of the environments visitors and explores to the distant, frigid planet of Adveneden have discovered so far!

Worn Teeth is a vast prairie, cool and dry. Filled with short, hardy grasses and sparse macroferna coverage. This particular area is noteworthy due to a deep impact crater, millennia old at its heart and the crevasses and slabs of rock lifted from the crust above the surrounding land, worn by weather and time. The immense megalithic formations are humbling to approach, with some almost the size of small mountains!
There is very little subsurface area around the Worn Teeth compared to the rest of the planet, but this isn't very surprising given the ancient catastrophe that took place here.

The Sun Stones are a reminder of warmer times, the fossilized remains of tropical macroferna silently standing vigil over lichen and smaller, hardier varieties of ferns and sunpads. Some areas are thick with the spires and can prove a dangerous hazard, hiding all manner of predators or even the possibility of collapsing onto the unwary!
Under the surface, the ever present tunnels and caverns of Adveneden are filled with more evidence of climate shift, as tinder dry plant remains and ancient bones litter the stone all around you.

Snowpad Drifts hilight lifes tenacity on this changing world. A much larger and taller variety of sunpad, snowpads are exceptionally efficient at soaking up the limited orange sunlight and crowd overhead in fierce competition for it, leaving the forest floors much darker and colder than would be suggested, with snowdrifts present even at the height of the warm season.
Thankfully, thermal vents provide relief for plants and animals that live here, only venturing out to scrounge for food in the ever present winter dusk.

Caldera Wood is a small and unique terrain, hidden in the mouth of a dormant volcano at the roof of the world. A few macroferna reach for the sun in the thin air, the jagged walls of the cauldron itself impeding light gathering. Most plants turn to tapping the warmth beneath, living off the mineral rich hot spots deep below. The results are much of the flora incorporating minerals into themselves in spectacular and occasionally dangerous displays.
Magma tubes are quite extensive beneath the Woods, and quite dangerous with chemical fumes, searing hot spots, and even magma bubbling up on occasion!

The Mushlands are a strange inversion of environments on Adveneden. The heat reflected off the waters to the north and shielded on three sides by sheer mountains leave an area that is relatively pleasant, warm, and wet year round. The result is the fungal life from the caverns below bubbling up and covering and choking out everything else in reach. The area is saturated with spores that aggressively seek out anything to grow on and in and is quite dangerous to most life, even with a biology laced with heavy metals.
Caverns below the Mushlands are unexplored, but are quite possibly more dangerous, if it can be imagined!

The Whispers is well known to star travellers who have passed near the planet. Macroferna here have grown tall and have created clusters and arrays of sunpads not only to soak up the weak sunlight, but also supplement themselves with the strong magnetosphere of the planet. The result is an icy forested region that babbles and whispers on the wind, and on the EM spectrum. Many a spacer has sworn they've heard voices amongst the static chatter on their instruments coming from this area.
Beneath the surface, the area is saturated with ferrous ores and acidic soils, adding to the confusion to all sorts of instrumentation nearby. It is VERY easy to get lost here!

Cistern Caverns are quite a wonder! Cool areas filled with lakes and ponds and very obvious sinkholes that lets the waters cascade down in elaborate waterfall designs into the caverns below. There the roots of the massive trees above drink the water now saturated with minerals and nutrients while they are siphoned back up the trunk of the tree to the surface where it pours from the trunk like living fountains to feed other flora and to begin the feeding cycle again.

The Glimmersea is being considered for low-level colonial development as a resort area due to local conditions. The stones jutting up through the waters are filled with minerals and metals, polished by the waters until they sparkle in the sun and moonlight, before eventually flecking off into the waters and adding to the sparkling mineral waters lapping gently. The sea is warmer than the surrounding environments due to geothermal vents venting minerals and new stone formations into the waters above.

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