False Life Isles
What happens when you mix the Grung's potent poison, islands on an inland sea, tempermental plants, and the mytic energies of Scalebright Lake? You get the False Life Isles. This collection of islands on Scalebright Lake are little more than smooth stone, covered in a dried composite of dead plants and Grung gunk.
The false life Isles were named as such due to the green color of the composite covering the islands. It makes the islands appear lush and well vegetated from a distance. Upon further inspection, the island's rocks are seen. This is what has given the False Life Isles their name.
The Isles are populated exclusevely by the Grung. Due to the destruction of the environment and the lack of plants, it is a wonder to many that even they can survive here. Some of the tribes are very welcoming to visitors, showing them the rituals of their people. They seem to treat guests largely as pets, dispite the fact that many of the visitors are more sophisticated. Unfortunately, the resources of the islands are ill-suited to anyone but the Grung, and their observers must leave. Many Grung are sad at the departure, but others have made it a celebration to say goodbye to good friends.
Geography
The islands are largely stone rising up from the seafloor. The largest, To'til is roughly 200 miles long and 50 miles wide. Aside from it, most of the islands are less than 40 miles across. They are not grouped well, and appear across the surface of Scalebright.
Climate
Things here tend to be fairly temperate, though in the winters, ice spreads out from the islands, but Scalebright never completely freezes over.
Natural Resources
Despite the non-plantlike appearance of the composite, it is somehow still a living plant. Many visitors and observers have seen the Grung break pieces of it off in order to eat or use as bait when fishing. They don't allow others to take it from the islands, however, and attempting to may result in death. It also doesn't seem to be edible to anyone but the Grung. Others who have eaten it, or seen those who have, have reported stomach cramps, vomitting, diarrhea, blindness, and death. Lesser, temporary effects much like these, sans death, have been observed in non-Grung who eat fish caught with the composite as bait. In areas where visitors saw the composite chipped off, they later found it to be whole.
Many worshippers of Quetminook want to research this composite, but the Grung are greatly opposed to the idea. Many researchers have died attempting to get a sample, and even those who suceeded hardly brought back enough to run tests on. From what they've been able to learn, the composite is a living thing, but that it soon dies and decays when removed from the lake's general vicinity. They have also been able to determine that it contains a very high concentration of both nutrients and toxins, many of which rapidly degrade whenit dies.
History
The Grung are Biethtìre, though they are undoubtedly the least developed of any of their counterparts. They still live very tribally, and their social structures are fairly simple. Despite this, they are still very effective combatants.
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