Sporobolis Floridum

The continent is Usmor, on the northern pole.

The region is the entirety of the continent, especially the eastern and northwestern of this cold, eternally frozen landscape, where the greatest winds and most inhospitable climates can be found.

Not many species live here, and those who do are confined to the cold and the inhospitable darkness of the sub-surface caverns or the inescapable surface world where the wind never stops blowing the chill never reaches above even the low tens of degrees, even during the slightly warmer summer months.

One of the most determined survivors in this environment is the Sporobolis Floridum.

This small species of animal is more akin to a parasite or crustacean of some sort, as it has a notably small size, a hard shell and a complicated internal organ system and no known eyes or mouth with which to take in light and nutrients from the world around them. 

They do however take in energy from the world around them, via the ice that surrounds them as well as by using their internal body temperature to defrost the ice and snow into water droplets which they circulate through their bodies to provide them with constant energy so that they never go hungry. They do not have a stomach, but instead glands and other organs which turn the defrosted water into the energy and proteins needed to survive. When presented with physical scraps of food in tests to study this small creature, they do not appear interested in it at all, and will continuously seek out a water source in order to fuel their bodies to survive. They have undergone millions of years of evolution and bodily changes to compensate for their environment, and have been known to resist a change in their habitat. It is believed that this parasite-like species is responsible for the lethal disease known as Fraga Hydrorhagia, also called Blue-Skin Disease and even Permafrost Disease, and thanks to their size and their internal makeup, it didn't take very long to further cement these beliefs in the medical field from the works and documentations of countless doctors and medical practitioners across the world. 

It is unknown how this species reproduces or how many members exist in a group at one time, or even how many can be produced in a single life season. 

They have only been recorded in their largest numbers in the southern and northern poles of Tarris Six, but have been known to cause the sickness in Humans and other Humanoid races if proper exposure - albeit accidental - is given for the parasite-like species in the right places at the right time. 

They feature a grey, stone-colored skin and a hard shell to compliment this, they measure at most one-sixtieth of an inch in size, taking a microscope to see clearly. One of their best methods of travel from the poles is onboard the ships that travel to and from the poles - despite the few travels undertaken each year - and commonly infect the sailors of these ships. For this reason, it is regarded by the shipping industry to be a rite of passage - of sorts - to survive an infection by this parasite, and it has also been commonly known as Sailor's Sickness by the shipping industry.