Royal Woods
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These lands are harsh and unforgiving, but bear beauty and vastness unseen by anyone but the past - loading screen DescriptionA vast forest, that consists of vast and dense woodland, open plains and many hills, The Royal Woods a land known for its beauty and a wide variety of endemic creatures. It is what remains of Yellowstone National park
Description
The Royal Woods, despite the name, is a strange yet vast frontier of different coexisting habitats in one large locale. From grasslands overlaying with stretches of forests, to a combination of cliffs and massive trees that creates a vast vertical space, this region is a unique locality discovered by a Research Commission who still inhabits a small portion of the region. Named for it’s majesty, the Royal Woods is also known popularly as Eden's Expanse, due to its wide variety of biodiversity that can be found in both Flora and Fauna throughout the land, other names include The Eternal Valley, as well as lesser known names such as Rebirth Peak.Common Dangers
- Thick mud
- Cold Air at night
- Falling Tree’s
- Wildlife
- Thorny Bushes
- Falling Rocks
- Pits
- Geysers
- Fog
General Information
Weather
Weather for this location usually consists of usually cloudy skies, sometimes sunny, occasional thunder- or snowstorms. Blizzards are common in the winter times.Seasons (main)
- Spring
- Winter
Layout
Note: While this map is open world and you can go whether you please, this list just lays out the interesting places one can find within the Royal woods.- The Observatory
- Outposts/Subcamps
- The Orosornis Rookery
- The Lucky Mineral Mine
The Lucky Mineral Mine, abbreviated as LMM, is one of two designated areas located under the mountains. These caves and tunnels were once part of a huge mine underneath the Royal Wood Mountain Range back in the time before the Bombs fell. While many area's in Yellowstone National Park were once safe from mining, a ruling issued by the Montana Supreme Court had effectively enable a plan by a Canadian Mining company named Avalon Mining, to search for gold in the mountains above Paradise Valley, the northern entryway to the iconic national park. Mining opponents argued that the companies exploration and mining plans would pollute the Yellowstone River with acid runoff and toxic metals; interrupt essential habitat for species like grizzly bears, lynx, elk and wolverines; and harm the local community by disrupting recreation areas and ruining views of Emigrant Peak from Yellowstone National Park itself, leading to many attempt to overrule the order. All of them were deemed failures, and almost a year after the ruling, The Company began construction on the Mines. However fate had other plans, as a year before the mines would be open, the bombs had dropped, effectively ceasing all mining in Yellowstone. What is left of the mines still stands even 200 years after the war. Few open areas are present now, with the sky being seen in only one, and dark, mysterious sounds are heard everywhere else. The mines are characterized by what could be described as a lack of natural resources, but an abundance of mineral resources. Being a mine, ores are aplenty so if you have a pickaxe, you best be scouring. But becareful, as strange noises can be heard within the caves and walls!!
- Eurekasprings Village
Fauna and Ecosystem
Back in its hayday, Yellowstone was widely considered to be the finest megafauna wildlife habitat in the lower 48 states, with almost 60 species of mammals in the park, including the Rocky Mountain wolf, coyote, the Canadian lynx, cougars, and black and grizzly bears. Other large mammals included the bison (often referred to as buffalo), elk, moose, mule deer, white-tailed deer, mountain goat, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep. 200 years after nuclear war, Yellowstone still manages to house some of the most respected animals known to the states. The dazzlingly coloured biomes of Royal Wood Valley are teeming with equally vibrant wildlife, with some familiar faces, such as the Mule Deer, Elk and Moose, along with more surprising animals such as The North American Dire Bear, The Arbordactyla (Altorell), Massochelorex The Orosornis, and many many others.Fish
About 8,000-10,000 years ago twelve species (or subspecies) of native fish, including Arctic grayling, mountain whitefish, and cutthroat trout, dispersed to the Yellowstone region following glacier melt. These native fish species provided food for both wildlife and human inhabitants. The distribution of native fish species was originally constrained by natural waterfalls and watershed divides. These landscape features provided a natural variation of species distributed across the landscape and vast areas of fishless water. At the time Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872, approximately only 40% of its waters were barren of fish—including Lewis Lake, Shoshone Lake, and the Firehole River above Firehole Falls. For millennia since, humans harvested Yellowstone varies species of fish for food. From the park’s inception more than a few centuries ago, fishing had been a major form of visitor recreation. It had been this long-standing tradition and integration with the parks’ cultural significance that allowed the practice of recreational fishing to continue in Yellowstone National Park all the way up until the war. In some cases, it also contributed to the National Park Service goal of preserving native species. The biological significance of fish to ecosystems makes them an ongoing subject of study and concern for much of the Observatory Research Team.Flora
Royal Woods sports a series of dramatic landscapes, serving as a backdrop to a rich history. From the lush spruce forests, to the spreading Juniper, every corner of this location is filled with color and life. According to Researches at the Observatory, native plant taxa within the area still ranges from more than 1,000 species of vegetation (with their mutant variants included) just like it had in the past. During Pre-war times, over 1,700 species of trees and other vascular plants were native to the park. Another 170 species are considered to be exotic species and are post-war non-native species. Of the eight conifer tree species that still thrive and are documented by the Observatory, Lodgepole Pine forests cover only 50% of the total forested areas, compared to the 80% it once did. Other conifers, such as Subalpine Fir, Engelmann Spruce, Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir and Whitebark Pine, were found in scattered groves throughout the landscape with some noted to be gaining a better foothold then others. As the vegetation communities of Yellowstone National Park, now Royal Woods, include overlapping combinations of species typical of the Rocky Mountains as well as of the Great Plains to the east and the Intermountain region to the west, today, the native plants still include: Hundreds of various species of wildflowers.- Trees
- Shrubs
- Three endemic species (found only in Yellowstone)
Type
Mountain Range
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