Ivucarro

Ivucarro is a large rocky planet in the Kurhira System, neighbouring Cilvarth and Osao. Ivucarro is home to the metraphites, hyper-adaptive snail people who mimic organisms of any environment they find themselves in.

This planet is an incredibly popular inter-planetary tourist destination, with tropical climates, vibrant cultures, and welcoming inhabitants.

Geography, Location & Climate

The planet's atmosphere has an incredibly unusual composition - miniscule crystalline structures floating in the upper atmosphere reflect light, giving the planet a global blue, purple, and green appearance from space. On the planet itself and in the lower atmosphere, Ivucarro is incredibly vibrant, with shimmering forests of all hues.

Ivucarro's six continents are mostly covered in forest, occupying roughly 93% of the land. The rest is a blend of sparse swamps and plains.

Patelligia

Patelligia's shiny pink forests appear a dark turquoise from outer space. The atmosphere conceals glowing cities.

Neritimia

While Neritimia appears green from space, it is a blend of white, neon blue, and silver. The Neritimian Lakes are a constant thirty degrees Celsius.

Mollomia

Mollomia is best known for the Prismatic Fields, a rainbow forest who's magical energy has bedazzled the entire continent.

Neomia

Neomia has the largest population, mostly within the Liadin Rainforest, a vibrant yellow, orange, and pink forest where metraphites originated.

Nacellimia

Nacellimia contains thousands of islands that get flooded during high tides. Resident metraphites are semi-aquatic.

Caenomia

Caenomia's tall mountain ranges wrap around the southern coastlines, blanketed in thick, mossy forests.

 

Notable Forest Regions

Biconica by Mochi

Byssal Forest

The Byssal Forest is a gigantic region in western Mollomia. Dominating the forest are byssal slugtrees, the resident biconica morphotype mimicking these sessile corals.

This forest is the second most populated region, with around 69 million metraphite inhabitants, and another 16 million slimes.

Liadin Rainforest

The Liadin Rainforest is a tropical rainforest in southern Neomia. The liadin morphotype mimic liadin sporetrees gigantic tree-like fungi.

The rainforest's ecosystem thrives on hydromancy, or water magic. The region's plants have water-bending abilities, allowing them to funnel water through the soil into their roots, or redirect rainfall. Rivers curl, twirl, and fold in on itself around the rainforest. They dig through hills and small mountains forming gaping caverns, flourishing with bioluminescent mosses and algaes.

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History

Metraphites first evolved around ten million years ago. Their evolution was a slow journey, and their ascension from a lowly primitive animal to a recognised sophont was a difficult process. It took metraphites millions of years to learn how to craft fire, or carve weapons, any basic task that took typical sophonts just hundreds of thousands of years.

Those that observed from outer space hoped that one day, far in the future, metraphites would join them. But they had little hope. It was only when metraphites left the Liadin Rainforest, their birthplace, did the evolution of this species skyrocket. New resources became available, they grew smarter, but most interestingly, there was a tremendous physical shift. People that left the Liadin Rainforest would return unrecognisable, the only thing of their former selves remaining were their memories. The original group of metraphites did not recognise the returning people as their own species, and began treating them essentially as aliens.

As people diverged, new groups manifested in just a few years. Around fifty different groups of people had split off from one another, all adapting to the unique environments, rendering them completely unrecognisable from one another. It was only until twenty thousand years ago did people realise they were all the exact same species.

The study of hyper-adaptivity only became a trend a thousand years ago, as technological advancements increased.

The Space Age for metraphites began five hundred years ago, just two years after a Starsaught Enterprises ship from Osao landed on the planet, and the world grew a little bit larger for these slow-moving gastropods.

The squishy nature of both slimes and metraphites led the two species to believe that all peoples were squishy. As metraphites entered their own Space Age and began travelling to other planets, they were quickly disappointed upon meeting sophontic mammals, avids, reptiles, anything but other gastropods. They quickly realised they were unique as a people, and they would use that to their advantage.

Slime shed from these people have medical benefits, quickly realised by people in outer space. Certain morphotypes produce special chemicals in their slime, and when applied directly to the skin, has certain healing effects. This slime became the biggest export from Ivucarro, putting them in the upmost echelon of the pharmaceutical industry in the Milky Way.

Pharmaceutical scientists and other closely related professions has become a cornerstone of metraphite society on Ivucarro and in outer space. Scientists studying the components of this slime observed the same chemicals in many other organisms across the planet, only boosting their presence in the industry and cementing their status as a powerhouse civilisation in the galaxy.

Ecology

Ivucarro boasts an incredible number of native organisms. The Legional Species of Ivucarro is the liadin sporetree. The iconic fungus is commonly mistaken as a plant by outsiders, metraphites intent on correcting anyone and everyone making this mistake.

Chameelee by Mochi

Liadin Sporetree by Mochi

Lordbugs or ladybugs... hrrmmmm, both are pretty cool.

Chameelees and lordbugs are two of around forty domesticated species used for travel. Chameelees in particular are native to the Weewoo Mountains of southern Caenomia, where their bright colours hide them from prey animals.

Ivucarro's atmosphere is a paradise for airborne creatures. Thousands of layers of thick fluffy cloud provide enough stable ground for animals to rest mid-flight. The atmosphere is home to a number of aeromagical animals and inanimals, including several large dragon species.

Coral and fungi dominate the lands of Ivucarro as much as plants do. Various types of sporetrees, slugtrees, braintrees, and other unusual lifeforms take the place of traditional trees in many forests.

These little freaks know how powerful they are. I ran into one once, it looked at me, then just froze me on the spot. I was stuck like that for five hours!!

— Angry metraphite

Added magical essences only enrich these ecosystems, which thrive on the presence of magic. Chronarios are one of the few creatures in existence capable of utilising chronomancy, or time magic.