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Anabagua

Basic Information

Anatomy

The anabaguas are plant-like people that take the form of the flora native to Boricubos. The body of an anabagua is thin in frame, and green, just like the stem of a flower, with their arms and legs resembling giant green leaves. At the bottom of an anabagua’s feet are roots that they use to scramble along the ground, and also plant themselves in order to absorb nutrients. Though their leaves can be different colors, ranging from white to bright pink, most anabaguas have the same distinctive five white petals that are attached to their heads, surrounding their humanoid faces.

Biological Traits

All anabagua are female.

Genetics and Reproduction

An anabagua plants seeds every 50 years or so in order to grow new anabaguas as their children. It takes 3 months for a seed to grow into an anabagua child that can pull their roots out of the earth and walk about.

Growth Rate & Stages

As the Anabagua grow from the earth they are considered a seedling up to the age of 5 (during this time they are very weak and fragile lives that are protected fiercly). They are then considered children to the age of 20. An Elder is 60+ years.

Ecology and Habitats

The anabaguas tend to live in communities, often within secret glades found within the jungle, away from other races. This is to keep both a sense of privacy so as to enjoy the unspoiled beauty of nature, and so that they could hide their rapidly dwindling numbers due to the elders dying off in an unnatural fashion. The anabaguas are said to be in touch with the land more than any other race, so when the land is sick, the anabaguas are said to suffer as well, though it has never happened to this scale, where nearly 25 percent of the anabagua population was wiped out in the past three years alone. Because of this, they have become even more reclusive than they were before, hoping no other race takes advantage of their relative weakness at the moment. This has not worked to their advantage as other races have only become more and more curious about the anabaguas’ situation.

The anabaguas people are expected to be responsible for the jungle on Boricubos as a whole, and with that responsibility comes a great deal of pressure. With the elders dying off without necessarily having passed on the practices of keeping the jungle safe from the greed of other races, it is up to the younger generations to find their own methods.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Each anabagua village is led by the eldest anabagua in said village, a tradition that has held despite The Blight killing off the anabagua elders. This is to keep some semblance of normalcy despite these hard times, and because it is hard to simply change a mindset that has lasted for thousands of years.

The Blight has ravished the Anabaguas, and because of this, the current population of anabaguas is made up of only the youngest and most inexperienced to make decisions. Though they act as if they are just as knowledgeable as their deceased elders, they are a race in panic, not sure if they can live up to the legacy their ancestors left behind.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Adventurers

Most anabaguas adventurers are rarely seen outside of the jungle, not enjoying going to the coastal cities which they see as the potential destruction of the archipelago. That said, there are a select few anabaguas adventurers who are not so choosy about where they adventure, and simply relish the opportunity to help the races they see as needing their protection. As a result, most of the Eldest become druids and rangers. A select few also become barbarians, and witches.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

In addition, anabaguas all have the ability to transfer life from one organism to another, using necrotic energies to sap attackers or predators’ life forces in order to channel that into positive energies that can be used to grow the natural environment in Boricubos, or heal themselves if need be. There are some anabaguas who refuse to use this power, seeing it as a violation of life, but the youngest anabaguas see this as just a gift to be used in order to preserve the few lives they have left, after their elders began dying off.

Feat
As an anabagua, you gain the Siphon Life ability.
  • Siphon Life [three-actions] (concentration, healing, necromancy, negative, primal)
  • Frequency: once per day;
  • Effect: You touch a creature and deal 1d6 points of negative damage, plus an additional 1d6 negative damage for every 2 of your levels beyond 1st. You then choose a creature within 30 feet to give temporary Hit Points equal to half the negative damage the target takes (after applying resistances and the like). They lose any remaining temporary Hit Points after 1 minute.

They also see well in the dark (low light vision)

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

The anabaguas all take names which either describe themselves, or a plant that they particularly enjoy, with each anabagua choosing their own name when it comes of adult age. Before they become adults, they simply refer to themselves as “this one” or “that one.”

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Common, Terran (Uncommon: Aquan, Draconic, Coquían, Iguacan, Taínem, or Sylvan)

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

The two main deities that the anabaguas worship are Yokaho, the god of the land and harvest, and Boina, the goddess of the sun and volcanos, though most anabaguas tend to disregard the second part of her domain in favor of the first.

The anabaguas regularly hold festivals in these two deities’ honor, believing them to be the most important for all life on Boricubos. After all, what would the people be without land? And what life would there be on said land if not for good harvest? And how could the harvest come to be if not for the sun?

History

In the Boricubosan creation story, it was the anabaguas themselves who were given seeds presented by the gods in order to plant the other races that now populate the archipelago, all save for the Hurákani and the Wolákani , who arose from the elements naturally many centuries later. Because they are the Eldest, many of Boricubos ’ other races often look to them as spiritual leaders, and see what advice the anabaguas give before acting. In the rare interactions mortals have with the gods, it is usually a divinity speaking with one of the anabaguas, which only cements the idea that the anabagua people are, in fact, special.

Common Myths and Legends

Before all the races on Boricubos came to be, there were the anabaguas, plant-like humanoids who are also known as the “Eldest” because of their unique position as the archipelago’s original inhabitants, created by the gods to watch over not only the archipelago of Boricubos, but also the people who would be sent to populate it in future years.

The anabagua people are the cultivators of the land here in Boricubos. It would be fair to state that we are the land incarnate and that all other races owe their existence to our continued wellbeing over the years. After all, who is it that replants the forests when the others take for food and lumber? After all, who is it that taught the people of the land to properly treat the soil in order to avoid the land from becoming barren? It was us, the true inheritors of the land who were here before all else, and who shall be here after all others have left this world. Nature will always prevail over the destructive forces of civilization and we are just the harbingers of that message.
— Anabagua Druid

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

The Great Jungle

The Eldest have taken to weaponizing what they call The Great Jungle, making it deadlier for the people who live in the coastal regions of Boricubos to traverse and therefore destroy with their civilizations. So instead of meeting with other racial and community leaders and teaching them about how to properly care for the jungle, the anabaguas have been creating all sorts of traps within the jungle’s most highly travelled routes, such as deadfalls, falling log traps, and even spiked pits. They have even gone as far as digging up and replanting certain dangerous flora near safe ones in order to trick bypassers into deadly scenarios, and agitating local wildlife whenever intruders to the forest are near so that they attack said intruders. These are not necessarily meant as malicious attacks on others, but they are legitimately the only ways the younger generation of anabaguas knows how to protect the jungle.

Stats
  • HP: 8
  • Size: Small
  • Speed: 25 Feet
  • Ability Boosts: Constitution, Wisdom, Free
  • Ability Flaw: Strength
  • Languages: Common, Terran (Uncommon: Aquan, Draconic, Coquían, Iguacan, Taínem, or Sylvan)
  • Traits: Anabagua, Plant
  • Senses: Low Light Vision
Scientific Name
Humanoid, Plant
Origin/Ancestry
Lifespan
Up to 200 years
Conservation Status
With the current war in the heavens, the land of Boricubos is dying, and with them, the lifespans of the anabaguas have shortened dramatically. What used to be a several thousand year lifespan has been reduced to about two hundred years today, a fact which was only discovered when the oldest of the anabaguas began to wilt and die of old age, all at the same time. This event is known as The Blight.
Average Height
They are small creatures and vary much in height and grow to be somewhere between 2 and 4 ft tall (0,5-1,2m).
Geographic Distribution

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Cover image: by Daniel Brorsson

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