Kieteiku Caverns
Kieteiku Caverns are a cave system hidden behind Ten Waterfall, a massive horsetail waterfall, the Caverns are surprisingly vast within, containing over eleven cave floors that go all the way from the bottom of the lake to the tip of the Waterfall.
Geography
Kieteiku Cavern is surprisingly smooth, as water from the falls have eroded away the roughness of the rocks within and brought in outside flora, mostly bioluminescent moss, which lights up the cave. The caverns also have natural springs within, allowing for ponds and even rivers to form within. The top floor even contains the river which pours out from the cave to form Ten Waterfall itself.
Ecosystem
The caverns, being sealed away from the outside world with a consistent water source from the Ten Waterfall, creates a moist environment, where moss and even small flowers will grow from cracks in the caves near water. Some species of fish even live within it's springs and inner ponds, which fed on the moss and other underwater flora, which the Rainbow Pheasents then capture and eat.
Localized Phenomena
Just outside the Cavern's entrance is a tangle of vine flowers known as Amnesia Flowers, wrapping themselves the top of it. The Flowers create a rather bizzare reaction in others through their pollen, causing them to become slightly drowsy, numb, and happy if not oblivous and reckless, though this also wipes their memory of anything they expereinced while on the high.
Climate
Kieteiku Cavern is cool, humid and windless due to being isolated from the outside world and having it's entrance in behind a waterfall.
Fauna & Flora
The Kieteiku Cavern is considered iconic due to rumors of the rare sapeint within, Rainbow Pheasents. Having once lived free alongside their fellow air elementals hundreds of years ago.
History
Once, the Kieteiku Caverns weren't sealed off and the amnesia flowers grew around the cliffs instead of directly over the entrance.
The eleusive Rainbow Pheasents once flew alongside the other Air Elementals, though, 300 years ago, a violent storm brought about a great tsunami and merciless winds strong enough to last a whole week. Scared for their lives, Rainbow Pheasents fled inside the Kieteiku Caverns, hoping for the day the storm would end so they could return to their previous homes. However, the storm lasted for three weeks instead, leaving the Rainbow pheasents to grow near mad with isolation and dread of the storm.
When it finally cleared, the pheasents flocked out to the entrance in joy, only to discover that the amnesia flowers had grown greatly, as they thrive in intense rains, enough so to have covered over the top of the entrance, their pollen mixing with the waters of the waterfall to form a mist that would intoxicate anyone who dared enter or exit the Caverns.
With no easy way to remove the plants or other way to escape, the Rainbow Pheasents remained trapped to this very day, their presence forgotten until there was nothing left mere tall tales and rumors of their existence.
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