#solonys world

ehe did a full body ref for Isik early in the story, around the time the meets the party. ...They... Do not start off on friendly terms.

a wip for a heightchart for the “human” races of my still-nameless worldbuilding project. (calling it “spongeworld” for now, because the ground is porous and full of caves and ravines? idk)

Bug Mash: Made from any shelled bug/insect, its extremely simple and like all abyssian food, is uncooked. All you do is use any implement you have on hand to mash up the meat of the insect, grinding it against its shell to create a sort of chunky paste with its insides.

-Crik is an abyssian, a goblin-like race of people who live deep underground. Their diets consist mainly of insects, mushrooms, and edible moss. Lucky clans that live near an underground river might catch the ocasional cavefish or blind shrimp. Sometimes they will even hunt larger prey, animals like the loktik, a mole-like creature the size of a bear. But because life is so sparse this far in the Deep, most of the time there simply isnt enough food to feed everyone.

The Krasnok, also called Brighteyes or Stonemen, are a race of people inhabiting the bioluminescent caverns of my world Solonys. They’re pretty much human proto-dwarves. 

-One of the splinters of humanity driven underground by a now long forgotten cataclysm, they were once extremely technologically adept, and masters of bio-engineering and cybernetics. The remnants of this genetic tampering can still be seen in their lengthened lifespans and “crypt cities”: ruins full of technology now seen as magic.

-A species of glowing green algae lives in the caverns; it propagates through symbiotic relationships with local fauna, growing in their eyes and allowing the animal to see much better in the darkness of the deep. Krasnok included.

-Krasnok nations tend to be very isolated due to their geology. Larger caverns are more populated, with multiple towns and even cities. While tunnel towns are much smaller and built around a central room (like a town square), with streets and alleyways branching off. Most Krasnok live in the cities; tunnel towns are usually attempts to expand past the home cavern or built by people who want more freedom from the rule of the cities. Some, especially those in between two home caverns or along an underground river can get pretty big from trade.