The Island

The Island has existed for as long as the main land has and is the only known place in the world where unicorns exist. It is a hub of powerful elemental magic separated into five separate allegiances. The Island is located in the ocean between Wales and Ireland, of the United Kingdom. Though it was unknown for a long time there have been those who have found the Island from time to time.

### First Visitors

According to the first rider’s spirit, he was one of the first people to come to the Island. He met the wild unicorn queen and instead of killing him, as most unicorns would do. They slowly became friends over time. Years after the Unicorn Queen punctured the Rider’s hand and gave him the hatchery wound, thus allowing him to use magic.

The Unicorn queen sacrificed herself to give the bone staff and the First Rider died after. Their bodies were buried on Fisherman’s Beach on what would later become the Eyrie, thus creating a wild unicorn tree. The First Rider’s tomb was sealed by the Mirror cliffs and wouldn’t be discovered again until Skandar and his quartet found it.

According to Joby Warsham the Island had people who came to it, often by accident and became marooned. These people would later become the Ancestors of those who lived on the Island in Skandar’s time. People from many different countries and nationalities settled on the Island, thus making it full with people of different skin colours and cultures.

The people on the Island soon enough began to develop a system for dealing with the wild unicorns, whom were the Islands true inhabitants. They began to learn how to bond with unicorns from their eggs, as opposed to the method used exclusively by the first rider.

Slowly but surely society began to evolve on the Island, much different than that of the main land.

War of the Spirit Wielders and the Silver Circle

Two powerful groups evolved on the Island, the Spirit wielders, those who could use the fifth element and the Silver Circle, owners of the most powerfully magical unicorns of all. This came to a head when two Brothers, one from each side waged a war over who should rule the Island.

This mindset never truly left as even to present day (at least before the Fallen Twenty-Four) as the Spirit Wielders and the Silver Circle were always in rivalry. After the Weaver revealed herself Dorian Manning, the present day President of the Silver Circle had put a ban on any Spirit Wielder coming to the Island and trying the Hatchery door.

### Island's Revenge

When the Silver Circle began killing Wild Unicorns, in an attempt to weaken the powers of Skandar Smith (or so Dorian Manning had believed). The Island began to go out of control because of the inherent magic within it. The Island requires balance and part of this is the Wild Unicorns, whom were being killed and thus driving the balance off kilter.

Storm winds, tidal waves, Earthquakes, floods and all sorts of natural disasters were a part of the “Island’s revenge” prophesised by an old man at the saddle ceremony.

This crisis was averted when Skandar, Flo, Mitchell, Bobby and Kenna were able to use the Staff of the First Rider to save the Island by putting it in the divide in the centre of the Eyrie (and also the centre of the Island.

### Places of Interest

Four Point

Four Point (Previously known as Five Point) is the largest town on the Island and a hub for entertainment and trade. It holds all sorts of shops and tree houses which do business and sometimes houses as well. Most of the festivals are held here and in times of strife it can even act as shelter for people without their homes.

The Elemental Zones

The Elemental Zones are four different quarters of the Island, each divided into four of the five elements. Earth Zone, the Fire Zone, the Water Zone and the Air Zone. Each has a different climate such as the Earth Zone having more hills and the Water zone being more flat with a lot more water sources. Each zone has its own type of flowers etc. Families and workers usually live in these zones according to preference.

The Graveyard

The Graveyard is a place where Unicorns and Riders are buried after they have died. It has trees instead of gravestones as these appear whenever a unicorn dies. The trees have distinct appearances depending on the allegiance of the unicorn that had died.

Mirror Cliffs and Fisherman’s beach

The Mirror Cliffs are a reflective set of cliffs leading down to Fisherman’s beach, named after where the First Rider landed on the Island in ages past. The Mirror cliffs, like their name suggests, are extremely hard to see when coming in by boat or ship, thus helping to camouflage the Island from unwanted guests.

The Hatchery

The Hatchery is the tree and door built on top of the mound where the eggs would appear in the world, as discovered by the First Rider. Each year new eggs would appear at the same time their destined riders would (if they had them) and would be taken up a level for each year they existed, until their 13th year where the new potential riders would appear. The tunnel of the living and the Hatchery door are attached to the Hatchery.

The Eyrie

The Eyrie is where all chaos cup potentials live, work and learn with their bonded unicorns. It is a heavily armoured tree and one of the most heavily defended places on the Islands. It includes tree houses where the elemental instructors and trainees live, the trough where the riders eat, the stables, where the unicorns live and the training field. Riders live their entire first five years here unless declared a nomad.

### Life on the Island

Life on the Island is much different than that of the mainland. A lot of different types of people live on the Island with many different backgrounds and ethnicities.

Technology is almost non-existent on the island. There is no internet or computers, smart phones etc of any kind and no electricity either. Most people read books and often have a lot of bookshelves in their homes.

As befitting the only place where unicorns exist the structure of the island is heavily revolved around the flying creatures. Shops function around everything from caring for unicorns to rider’s uniform shops. Four Point is a living example of this.

Instead of houses most of the people on the Island live in tree houses. These can range from pristine with many stories, to smaller and spookier, such as those of the Secret Keepers.