Faodore

In waters life, light, legacy

The fish desire to protect their island, the hunters desire to find their own place for a home. A contest set aside for collaboration after a plague threatened their shared isle. Now their collaboration allows the isle's gifts to be bestowed with the region.

Faodore is one of the main floating islands of Shattered. A bowl island with a surface covered with lily pads, shining underwater crystals, and floating rivers of water falling off the island.

It is home to two groups of people whom, after a long struggle, started working together and formed an amalgamated culture.

Faodore's silhouette by Catoblepon

The Geography

Faodore is a bowl island, filled to the brim with water. Breaks on the walls of it causes water to spill, which it then creates a ring of water around the island that becomes clouds and falls back to the islands with each rain.

The walls are quite rough, as if it was the face of a cliff. It allows plenty of holes, crevasses, and similar for moss and small plants to grow on the outside, and similar in the inside, but with corals and other aquatic plants.

Small shining crystals also grow in these walls, making the outside of the island shimmer, and giving light to the water of the island as they shine brightly when submerged in water.

There's not much of a surface, but a myriad of different lilypads cover the water's surface, barely letting any light from The Creator to reach inside —thus why shining crystals are so important.

Some of these lillypads allow people and animals to stand on them. Some are used to anchor aquatic nests close to the surface for amphibians who require air in their early stages. Some are great "soil" for growing parasitic plants both in and out of water.

The People

Feserash

The Feserash are amphibian people who prefer being underwater and are mostly vegetarians. They live in houses grown out of coral reef that grow on the walls of the island.

They grow houses under water in the walls, out of coral. It's a slow process. For them, houses are only for sleeping, so there's not much other than beds in them and multiple people sleeping in one regardless of their relationship. There's not much privacy but they don't care and often struggle to fall asleep if they are alone.

Huvenors

The Huvenors used to be nomad people of the Faodore's area, and settled in during the era of Darkness. Omnivore people that would turn anything into food if needed.

Used to the nomad's life, they have little material possessions and live in tents often made of plants or of fish scales. They share tents between family only and use them for more than just sleeping: cooking, meetings, social activities, etc. Their families are close together and someone leaving theirs is a very sad day.

Since the Huvenors where nomadic people, they'd already had interacted with the Feserash and their relationship was cordial, but didn't interact too much. They were known for taking as much as needed from the islands they crossed, yet were respectful when crossing inhabited islands, such as Faodore itself. When they were forceful stranded in Faodore, both groups started arguing and fighting. The Huvenors didn't initially change their ways, and that clashed with the Feserach since it wasn't sustainable long term.

The Feserash forced teh Huvenors to learn the basics of sustainability as well as all the damage their hunting, fishing, and gathering was doing to the island. After all this teaching, they left the Huvenors on their luc, refusing to share their food or farming methods and didn't even cared to trade with them. The Huvenors, left to starve as they ran out of food, returned to their known ways.

It took a couple decades before the two groups started collaborating. The Huvenors taught about their crafting knowledge and what they've learnt in other islands while the Feserash shared their farming methods and even their food until the Huvenor managed to be self-sustainable.

The two groups are quite close now, tradng for goods constantly and asking for knowledge the other might be more knowledgeable. They made a society between both cultures and it'd be hard to survive on their own if the Huvenors suddently decided to become nomads again, as some younglings have started considering as of late, even knowing most of the nomad knowledge is lost.

Having such different lives and anatomies, it's hard to see houses who can accomodate both people.

The Feserash once attempted to create a "bubble room", filled with air, but it dried and killed the coral—from which the houses are made of— and the idea was quickly dropped since Huvenors need air to breath.

There are few tents who lack floors and instead have plant woven beds tied up in water. Unfortunately, the lack of people sleeping gin them makes the feserash uncomfortable for sleeping, and thus, they tend to see no use.

History

Cursed Waters (-637)

A star crashed into the island, letting a part of its body touch the water. That caused a deadly reaction to the water, it changed, just slightly, but enough for it to become poisonous. Over the course of the next years, all life of the island had to adapt or die by slow poisoning.

Poisonous and venomous species, as well as species resistant to those, suffered the less. Species with short lifespans and/or a lot of offspring managed to adapt.

A lot of species died out. The Feseresh managed to survive by spending lots of time on the surface

A decade of poison later, it slowly disappeared, returning the waters to its normalcy, and species had to re-adapt, yet it was less deadly.

During this period of suffering, new special crystals formed on the island's interior walls. The Feserash traded all they could find away, believing those to be the curse bearing the death.

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Fight for the island (-447)

A group of aggressive animals decided to claim the island as its own. The Feserash and Huvenors had to collaborate to fight this pest off the island, as it both affected under and above the waters.

It was the first proper collaboration between both groups of people, and it became the seeds for both to start collaborating long term and becoming one culture.

The Huvenors taught the Feserash hunting methods and both found out the best method of hunting this new pest. The Feserash taught the Huvenor about baits, repellents, and other aroma-based items to fight them off, and together they found the best repellent against it.

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Dark waters (345-350)

During this period, the crystals illuminating the waters of the island went dark. This was devastating as most underwater creatures used the light of those to navigate and see. It ws thanks to these crystals that the island kept some normalcy during The Darkness, since they didn't depend on The Creator's light but the crystal's.

The Huvenors found a few ways to give the Feserash some light, but it just made every starving predator—even ones that didn't usually attacked them—go straight to attempt devouring them.

Once the period was over, one by one the crystals started to shine again on their own.

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