Lamina

Brief Summary of Lamina
There is a great mountain region that is located southwest past the great desert. This region can be compared to the Wild West (Or southwest in this case). And so it’s rugged, it’s harsh, and it’s dangerous. Within this region there are many different types of predator class and prey class races who try to survive. The predator class races living in this region have it hard compared to ones living in the forests. Food is not easy to come by and these predators have had to learn to control their ravenous hunger in order to adapt and survive. There diets don’t consist primarily of humans, because there aren’t that many humans living in this area and the ones that are living in this area live in a not so secret subterranean society underneath the region along with many other prey-class races. So these predators are forced to mostly feed mostly on the large animals that live in this region, but that doesn’t mean they don’t try to attack the world underneath the region filled with delectable humans and other tasty humanoid creatures.

The subterranean society underneath the mountain region is actually called Lamina, but most people just call the whole region Lamina. It is a place that contains different types of prey-classes races. From Humans to Desert Nekos to the Ant/Human hybrid Mants, they live and try to survive underneath the harsh world above. Years of defending themselves against predators who constantly try to find a way into their subterranean world or giant insects and animals who live underground have bonded them together. For them, it’s constant struggle between being utterly destroyed by the many giant races trying to eat them and surviving till another day.

So this is my idea. If you like it I will go more into detail with this region and the different predator-class and prey-class races that live in it.

Interesting concept

Well, wherever there is a desert, there is a rugged mountain pass.

And where there is a rugged mountain pass you can expect rattle snakes...or in this case Naga version of rattle snakes.

I'll try to have a more detailed description of the Mountain Region version of Lamina later today or tomorrow.

Lamina (Mountain Region)

Danger: Very High

Sub Zones: Lamina (Subterranean)

Population: Humans, Desert Nekos, Human/Desert Neko Hybrids, Mants, Desert Nagas, Earth Sphinxes, Mountain Harpies, Cockatrices, Panmodos, and Sand Coyotes.

Background: Technically, this mountain region is not named Lamina, but for some reason everyone calls it that and so the name stuck. Anyway, Lamina is considered a very hard place to live, among predator and prey alike. There are many factors that make trying to survive in this place a…bitch…to put it bluntly. Overall, Lamina is a huge mountain region that is located southwest of the great desert. While traveling though the desert you can see this mountain system sprawled out in the distance. Its mountain peaks are hidden in puffy white clouds and the region itself is stretched out from left to right farther than the eye can see. Adventurers come to this place in hopes of finding extremely valuable gems and materials. While others are just trying to find out what is on the other side of this region. Lamina is home to many different types of predators that will gobble up travelers without a second thought. There are also secret entrances to the real Lamina, which is the subterranean world underneath the region.

The Natural Barrier: Lamina is known as a natural barrier because of the sheer difficulty adventurers have traversing the place. The paths in this region are very dangerous simply because of predators roaming around. An adventurer or a group of adventurers could find themselves being ambushed and eaten by the different types of predators in this area if they’re not very careful. Frequent rockslides can suddenly block a once cleared path and force an adventurer or groups of adventurers to find another path, causing wastage of time, supplies, and the greater chance of being eaten by a predator. The climate in this region is unforgivably hot. Some adventurers suffer from heat stroke just trying to hike up the pathways. And lastly, the pathways themselves are very confusing to traverse. Most of them lead to dead ends, others may lead right to a predator nest, and some just go on seemingly forever. There are many twists and turns that could send an adventurer traveling around in circles.

Sap Magic: One of the main reasons is living in Lamina so tough for everyone is because of a strange phenomenon that weakens the effect of all magic in this area. This includes the magic soil which gives the inhabitants of Felarya a sort of immortality. With this soils effect weakened, inhabitants of Lamina are prone to dying of injuries a lot more often. People who use magic often stay away from Lamina due to this reason. Some still come to find out what is causing this phenomenon.

Humanoid Food Shortage: Compared to their forest counterparts, the predators in Lamina don’t have it as good when it comes to delectable humans and other humanoid creatures. Most of the human and other humanoid population in Lamina lives in the subterranean world which limits the amount of humans and tiny humanoid creatures the predators can eat. They have adapted to make the giant animals living in Lamina their primary food source, but these animals aren’t pushovers and so predators have to work for their meal.

The Mysterious Ocean: Supposedly there is an ocean on the other side of Lamina, but it’s simply a rumor, and nobody has been able to confirm it. This rumor has helped the predators though, since it sends more adventurers to Lamina, to only be eaten by them. It’s possible that a predator even started this rumor just so more humans or other tiny humanoid creatures would go to Lamina more often.

Now after all of this you may ask yourself: Why the hell do people live in this area? Predators that live in this area have this sort of Lamina pride. They feel that they are superior to their forest counterparts because they have it a lot harder, according to them. Humans and other humanoid creatures live in this area because they have no choice or they were born here or they realize that no matter where they are in Felayra there is always a chance that they will end up in someone’s belly and so they might as well try to live their lives where they are.

Well I hope you guys like this. I'm trying to give Felarya a place where even Predators have it hard. I'll try to post up the descriptions of the various inhabitants of Lamina's mountain region tomorrow if I have the chance.

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Sap Magic: One of the main reasons is living in Lamina so tough for everyone is because of a strange phenomenon that weakens the effect of all magic in this area. This includes the magic soil which gives the inhabitants of Felarya a sort of immortality. With this soils effect weakened, inhabitants of Lamina are prone to dying of injuries a lot more often. People who use magic often stay away from Lamina due to this reason. Some still come to find out what is causing this phenomenon.

It remember me the Great hive in the forest of wisper, http://www.felarya.com/wiki/index.php?title=Forest_of_whispers
And everyone dies from injuries in Felarya too

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Well I hope you guys like this. I'm trying to give Felarya a place where even Predators have it hard. I'll try to post up the descriptions of the various inhabitants of Lamina's mountain region tomorrow if I have the chance.

In theory Felarya is harsh even for the predator but the difficulty is not well developped in general.

Lately many subterranean arena are created
The concept is very interesting

I wonder what kind of metal we could find there. This place reminds me of Mt. Rugged in Paper Mario, incoming nostaligia.

What the Hell are you guys waiting!? Comment this masterpiece, NAOH!

Oh, and we need MOAR mountain predators and grounded ones preferably, we got enough Rock Harpies.

Seems interesting. I might wish to contribute something fauna-wise, since it's so good.

I'll do that in the appropriate section.

It's a great idea !

Nicely described and very detailled I especially loved the idea of having a rough place for predators for once. I'll put that on my list ^_^

Some updates!

Lamina Inhabitants (Mountain Region)

Humans: The Humans that travel through the Lamina mountain region are mostly adventurers, but they don’t travel to this region very often due to the sheer danger and difficulty. This, of course, is one of the negative impacts on the predators which forced them to adapt and change their food source to the animals roaming around Lamina.

Humans of Lamina: These Humans are the ones that live in the subterranean world and they will be explained in the soon coming Lamina (Subterranean) section.

Sand Dune Tribe (Desert Nekos): The Sand Dune Tribe are Nekos who used to primarily live in the great desert, but they have since moved almost their entire population into subterranean Lamina. More on this race in the S. Lamina section.

Human/Desert Neko Hybrid: This race was created when Humans started to breed with Sand Dune Tribe Nekos. More on this race in the S. Lamina section.

Arsitek Mants: One of the many different humanoid ant races that primarily live underneath the Felarya soil. More on this race in the S. Lamina section.

Desert Nagas

Desert Nagas are a species of venomous Nagas that lives in the Lamina Mountain Region. Their appearance compared to Forest Nagas is a little more feral. Instead of having human eyes, their eyes have regressed back to that of serpents. Desert Nagas fingernails are longer, sharper, and slightly curved making them more like claws. Their skin color is also darkly toned like, grey, black, brown, or some other dark color. Their size compared to other Nagas is smaller. Most Desert Nagas on average are about 60 feet from head to ground. Some people find Desert Nagas exotic because of their wilder and animalistic appearance. Due to the harsh environment they live in, Desert Nagas need to depend more on their natural, non-magical abilities to survive.

Their primary weapon in battle is potent hemotoxic venom which can be injected into their target with a bite or a slash from their claws. Once injected the venom begins to destroy tissue and organs. The rate at which this happens depends on the size of the creature and it’s resistance to the venom. Most creatures find this venom fatal. Small creatures don’t need to worry about this since Desert Nagas just swallows them whole.

Desert Nagas has increased speed and agility over larger Nagas because of their smaller size. Their natural element is earth, and this increases the durability of their skin and scales, allowing a Desert Naga to take a lot more punishment than an average Naga. It also gives them vibration sensitivity, which allows a Desert Naga to be able to sense other animals approaching through detecting faint vibrations on the ground. A Desert Naga also has powerful infrared-sensitive receptors in their eyes, which allows them to see radiated heat. This allows them to locate prey easier, especially warm blooded ones.

Like all Nagas, Desert Nagas have a huge appetite, but they have learned to control it. They only eat what they need to survive, which are about 2 large animals a day, and that is it. This is why they are smaller than other Nagas, smaller size equals smaller appetite. But they would like to eat more though, and this urge to eat when they don't have to makes them irritable. If a Desert Naga finds a human or tiny humanoid creature, they will instantly gobble them up. There is almost a 0% chance a human will be successful into persuading a Desert Naga to let him or her go.

I see Lamina as a frontier between The Great Rocky Field and the The Mist Ocean The large moutains are a natural barrier which block the magic from the Mist Ocean and explain the poverty in magic of this area

A question what is the large animals you are talking about

I didn't describe them yet. My last post was only a small update.

Daimo wrote:

I didn't describe them yet. My last post was only a small update.

I ask you that because it's diffcult to imagine the fact the desert nagas are less voracious than the other nagas. I think it's the opposite I explain in area where the source food is rare the more you are voracious because the hunger stimulate your survival instinct, predators in harsh place tends to eat due to the fact there is no guaranty they find food tomorrow so they eat to have an important reserve of fat to prepare themselves to stay many days without eating.
You know the biggest animals live in harsh place in general

gwadahunter2222 wrote:

Daimo wrote:

I didn't describe them yet. My last post was only a small update.

I ask you that because it's diffcult to imagine the fact the desert nagas are less voracious than the other nagas. I think it's the opposite I explain in area where the source food is rare the more you are voracious because the hunger stimulate your survival instinct, predators in harsh place tends to eat due to the fact there is no guaranty they find food tomorrow so they eat to have an important reserve of fat to prepare themselves to stay many days without eating.
You know the biggest animals live in harsh place in general

Hmm, I didn't picture it like that...

But then again, the Nagas are competing with other predators in the region. If they did go on eating sprees like you described then there is a possibility fights would break out between them and other predators for Lamina’s food source. Hmm, that sounds pretty interesting. *rubs chin*

A sparsity of food encourages savings more than anything else.

You do NOT go around eating everything that moves, that makes the food problems much worse and will likely cause your eventual death from starvation.

Malahite wrote:

A sparsity of food encourages savings more than anything else.

You do NOT go around eating everything that moves, that makes the food problems much worse and will likely cause your eventual death from starvation.

That's what I had in mind from the start. Hence, the Nagas only eating what they need instead of satiating themselves. The idea of having the predators fight each other for food sources is what interests me, but I don't know if I'll do that.

Daimo wrote:

That's what I had in mind from the start. Hence, the Nagas only eating what they need instead of satiating themselves. The idea of having the predators fight each other for food sources is what interests me, but I don't know if I'll do that.

It's explain their incredible reflex and their dangerous ability, when the primal ressources are rare the more valuable they becomes the more often conflicts may happen.
In clear you can have fight between two predators for just a single human or they eat very quick or they can team up, the more harsh a condition is the more agressive and skilled a predator become.
The natural selection is very important in this kind of area.
The hunger is the best way to stimulate your survival instincts.

gwadahunter2222 wrote:

Daimo wrote:

That's what I had in mind from the start. Hence, the Nagas only eating what they need instead of satiating themselves. The idea of having the predators fight each other for food sources is what interests me, but I don't know if I'll do that.

It's explain their incredible reflex and their dangerous ability, when the primal ressources are rare the more valuable they becomes the more often conflicts happen.
In clear you can have fight between two predators for just a single human or they eat very quick or they can team up, the more harsh a condition is the more agressive and skilled a predator become.
The natural selection is very important in this kind of area.
The hunger is the best way to stimulate your survival instincts.

I'm not sure if I follow, if the food is rare, eating until you are full will hasten your death. They would need to eat only the essential and not to their hearts content.

Sean Okotami wrote:

I'm not sure if I follow, if the food is rare, eating until you are full will hasten your death. They would need to eat only the essential and not to their hearts content.

Not really, It's a question of digestion, if you don't move after that you won't see the difference.

It will depend of the relation of the hunger and the need of move by example the camel drinks a lot of water before a long travel. The hawk don't eat a lot but it moves very fast.

gwadahunter2222 wrote:

Sean Okotami wrote:

I'm not sure if I follow, if the food is rare, eating until you are full will hasten your death. They would need to eat only the essential and not to their hearts content.

Not really, It's a question of digestion, if you don't move after that you won't see the difference.

It will depend of the relation of the hunger and the need of move by example the camel drinks a lot of water before a long travel. The hawk don't eat a lot but it moves very fast.

Or maybe it's a question of metabolism. I still think that if the food is rare, they should adapt to eating less so there is always a good supply of food. And don't forget that there are more than just one type of predators there, some may require more food and digest very fast, thus they would die from hunger.

Sean Okotami wrote:

Or maybe it's a question of metabolism. I still think that if the food is rare, they should adapt to eating less so there is always a good supply of food. And don't forget that there are more than just one type of predators there, some may require more food and digest very fast, thus they would die from hunger.

Exactly it's a question of metabolism but it's a question of activities. The more you move the hungrier you are, it's a question of activities. The biggest creature are great travelers, they naturaly know where to find some food and can stay many days without eating.

The problem with this kind of place everything is extreme like the temperature, it can be hot all the day and become extremely cold the night, like you can have a tanned skin in a cold mountains

This is why I'm detecting a sort of hibernating creature that is rather nocturnal in it's feeding habits. Those may inhabit this mountain.

Thanks for all the input guys.

I'll see if I can revise some stuff to work everything out.

A little details due to the difficulty of the area it's not safe to travel alone.The adventurers come to this they are not alone

Edit: To daimo, the predators to this place are very dangerous due to their extreme patience, they can wait many days before eating which requires an important reserve of fat. In clear they don't eat a lot but when they eat they eat a lot.
Look the case of Sphinx sentinel They can stay many centuries before to eat but they eat more than a naga.

Made a few revisions after reading all you guys input.

Lamina
(Mountain Region)

Danger
Very High

Sub Zones
Lamina (Subterranean)

Population
Humans, Desert Nekos, Human/Desert Neko Hybrids, Mants, Desert Nagas, Earth Sphinxes, Blue Sphinxes, Mountain Harpies, Cockatrices, Panmodos, and Sand Coyotes.

Background
Technically, this mountain region is not named Lamina, but for some reason everyone calls it that and so the name stuck. Anyway, Lamina is considered a very hard place to live, among predator and prey alike. There are many factors that make trying to survive in this place a…bitch…to put it bluntly. Overall, Lamina is a huge mountain region that is located southwest of the great desert. While traveling though the desert you can see this mountain system sprawled out in the distance. Its mountain peaks are hidden in puffy white clouds and the region itself is stretched out from left to right farther than the eye can see.

Weather
Lamina’s Mountain Region weather is extreme. During the daytime the temperatures can be blazingly hot, while during the night the temperature drops to freezing cold. This region also has frequent thunder storms that can lasts for weeks. The storms produce hurricane like winds that can carry away smaller creatures. Harpies hate when then storms comes because they are highly prone to getting struck by lightning, but the storms supply this region with its main source of water, allowing plant growth, and other needs so it’s needed.

Fauna
Lamina’s Mountain Region Fauna consist of giant Predator Hybrids and giant Predator Animals that range from 30 feet in size to 80 feet in size. The harsh environment of Lamina keeps the population of both predator types low, but most of the time Animal Predators have a higher population than Hybrid Predators. The reason for this is because Hybrid Predators don’t breed very often and they only eat what they need so food doesn’t become too scarce. Also, all predators in this area have a high resistance to heat and cold.

Flora
Lamina’s Mountain Region basic flora consists of edible grass that grows around various places in the area. The grass goes about up to the neck of a human and is a secondary food source for some predators. There also giant 40 feet shrubs that grows around the higher altitudes of the region. These giant shrubs produce edible fruit. The fruit from these shrubs are the main food source for the Mountain Harpies.

Humanoid Food Shortage
Compared to their forest counterparts, the hybrid and animal predators of Lamina don’t have it as good when it comes to delectable humans and other humanoid creatures. Most of the human and other humanoid population in Lamina lives in the subterranean world which limits the amount of humans and tiny humanoid creatures the predators can eat. They have adapted to make the other animals or plants in Lamina as their primary food source.

Lamina Dangers
Lamina doesn’t have any weird dimensional anomalies or dangerous magical anomalies, but it’s still known for its more natural based dangers. 75% of adventures that come here don’t even return back. The paths in this region can be very dangerous because of predators roaming around. An adventurer or a group of adventurers could find themselves being ambushed and eaten by the different types of predators in this area if they’re not very careful. Frequent rockslides can suddenly block a once cleared path and force an adventurer or groups of adventurers to find another path, causing wastage of time, supplies, and the greater chance at being eaten by a predator

The weather in this region is unforgivable. Some adventurers suffer from heat stroke, frost bite, getting struck by lightning, or being blown away by winds just trying to hike up the pathways. And lastly, the pathways themselves are very confusing to traverse. Most of them lead to dead ends, others may lead right to a predator nest, and some just go on seemingly forever. There are many twists and turns that could send an adventurer traveling around in circles.

Lamina’s Valuables
Adventurers come to Lamina in hopes of finding extremely valuable gems and materials, but the main reason they come to Lamina is hopes of finding entrance to the subterranean world underneath the region to obtain a Phokesian gem. The subterranean world underneath the region is the real Lamina.

Magic Shortage
Another reason why living in Lamina so tough is because of a strange phenomenon that weakens the effects of all types of magic, this includes the magic soil which gives the inhabitants of Felarya a sort of immortality. With this soils effect weakened, inhabitants of Lamina are prone to dying of injuries a lot more often. People who use magic often stay away from Lamina due to this reason. Some still come to find out what is causing this phenomenon.

The Mysterious Ocean
Supposedly there is an ocean on the other side of Lamina, but it’s simply a rumor, and nobody has been able to confirm it. This rumor has helped the predators though, since it sends more adventurers to Lamina, to only be eaten by them. It’s possible that a predator even started this rumor just so more humans or other tiny humanoid creatures would go to Lamina more often.