Isles of Horror

The Isles of Horror are seven large islands south of the southern continent. When it was first discovered it was so far off the coast of the mainland that the College of Biogenesis immediately took interest and settled. These facilities would go on to be a breeding ground for many of the college’s most dangerous creations. Beasts, plants, fungi, and even diseases that were so dangerous that they could not risk developing them in their primary facilities where students and researchers studied.
Thus the Isles of Horror were, over centuries, shaped into what they are known as now. Lands filled with terrible creatures of all shapes and sizes. The jungles that once teemed with natural flora and fauna are now entirely dominated by bioengineered super organisms primarily designed for war. While initially attempts were made to contain these creatures the College of Biogenesis became more and more lax about it over the years. So long as a creation could not fly nor swim and could not easily stow away on ships there was little risk of them making it to the mainland allowing the biogenesists to go crazy with whatever mad designs they had in mind.
The island now contains over three hundred species of carnivorous plants and all manner of deadly predators designed for military purposes. Theories on how this strange ecology can thrive are a subject of much debate, though it seems the sheer virility of the prey species engineered through biogenesis allows them to thrive even in spite of the many super predators that swarm the islands’ inner regions.
After the series of conflicts known as the Demihuman rebellion these islands were gifted to the demihumans to make their own country where their kind can live. The biogenesists cleared out some of the smaller islands of the most dangerously hostile species and permitted them to form their own communities on the shores and along rivers. In spite of all assumptions the demihumans managed to survive and form their own little nation of tribal societies, though the sheer dangers that exist on the larger, more resource rich islands, makes it impossible for them to grow into a fully modernized civilization.

Type

Archipelago