Flora and Fauna of Rakkimar

The various organisms of Rakkimar.
===Plants===
*bunchberries, gooseberries, blackberries, lingonberries
*wild strawberries (special to the Rakki people, a plant 'stained with the blood of brave warriors')
*many many types of lichens
*tubers, roots, carrots, ginger
*Essu rubber trees (special to the Essu people for use in waterproof boots and sealing gaps in boat planks)
*blackthorn trees (quite sacred to the Rakki people - trees 'where the spirits of the ancestors rested')
*pines, firs, and conifer trees which made up 95% of all trees
*kelps, seagrasses
*liverworts, hornworts and mosses
*willow trees
*purple lupin fields
*rosemary, fireweed, firegrass
*poisonous milkweed, wolfsbane, and belladonna - all used in Essu poisons
*Savrin Trees
===Domesticated Animals===
*Gildegran Caribou (reindeer), Essu people had herded them for generations, getting most their meat and material from keeping them. They were incredibly important).
**subspecies and breeds include large-antlered Anticosti caribou, sturdy Rangifer caribou, short-legged and squat Kaserini caribou, lean nimble Mountain Goat Caribou, and more.
*husky dogs
*wolf-dogs
*samoyed dogs (non-native to West Rakkimar; called Setfall dogs, they were native to Setfall Isle)
*greyhounds (non-native to West Rakkimar: called Xantic hounds, native to the Xantic Isles, brought over as a gift when the two nations traded).
*Forest cats (non-native to West Rakkimar, some were released and bred feral populations, but most were kept to keep pest populations low in towns)
===Wild Land Animals===
*white-tailed deer, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer
*Pronghorns
*Mountain elks
*Gildegran Moose, the second largest local land animal behind the:
*Gildegran Dracoyetis, large bipedal flightless carnivorous jumping birds covered in thick white down feathers, descendant from theropod dinosaurs (which many birds share ancestry with).
*arctic hares
*arctic coyotes
*timber wolves
*grey wolves
*otters
*beavers
*wild Rakkifarthing horses, with very thick coats, short legs, and squat bodies
*Black bears, small and easily startled
*Grizzly bears
*Polar bears, indomitable powerhouses
*Musk Bison, larger musk oxen
*Gildegran Water Buffalo, the largest bovids in the continent
*Gildegran Lynxes
*Manuls (short thick-furred squad cats, like Pallas Cats)
*Stoats (Arctic ermines) and weasels, and other mustelids
*Giant carnivorous ferrets
===Flighted Birds===
*Several types of large albatross, the largest flighted birds around
*Lusken Roc-Hawk birds - huge birds in the Accipitridae family (same as hawks and eagles), the largest flighted birds in the world. Larger than dracoyetis. Mated for life. Very noble,
*Puffins, which were very gregarious and nested in large rocky intertidal colonies
*Pelicans
*Humboldt penguins (called Tiger penguins due to their stripes - a small species of black and white penguin
*Arctic and Gildegran tern birds, which famously migrated to Lakay and back each summer, the furthest of any migratory animal
*Petrels
*Great Auk birds, smaller than albatrosses
*Snowy owls
*Tawny owls
*Luskan Hawks, one of the few gregarious birds of prey
*Red-tailed hawks
*Golden eagles
===Whales and Sharks===
Whaling was a huge part of Essu culture too, providing them with meat for communities, oil for lamps and fires, leather for clothes, and blubber for insulation and cooking.
*great blue whales, the largest local marine animal and largest of all local animals by body weight
*right whales
*pilot whales
*bowhead whales
*humpback whales
*narwhals (toothed whales), known in Essu as tuungaq (plural tuungait)
*pilot whales
*whale sharks
*great white sharks
*tiger sharks
*dogfish sharks
*greenland sharks (locally called Stinking Sharks because of their ammonia-rich flesh), also known around Yesterday Isle
*basking sharks
===Other Sea and Shore Creatures===
=====Fish=====
*northern pikes
*rocky sturgeon
*perch fish
*arctic char
*swordfish
*black marlin
*longboat sailfish, the fastest fish alive
=====Pinnipeds=====
*walruses
*sea lions
*leopard seals
*fur seals
===Invertebrates===
Small terrestrial invertebrates did not thrive in Gildegra because of the cold; most native invertebrates were aquatic or marine.
=====Intertidal and Shallow Aquatic=====
*blue estuary crabs
*horseshoe crabs
*cuttlefish
*prawns
*barnacles
*Argonaut octopus
*limpets
*sea snails
*Bliss cone snails, an incredibly venomous species of cone snail. Their name came from the Rakki gallows humour that one would feel true blss for a split second before a painful death.
=====Deep-Sea=====
*common octopus
*Xantic octopus
*Datrian cuttlefish
*Nautilus
*giant isopod
*giant squid
*bigfin squid
*colossal squid, almost mythologically rare
*cone snails, lethally venomous in tiny amounts
*sea sponges of many varieties
*lobsters
*deep sea spider crabs
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