Nitis

Nitis' landscape

Nitis is a cold planet mostly surrounded by pale darkness. Its distant star and its peculiar orbit almost never allowed it to bathe under the sunlight.

The planet is the home of an intelligent species called Niqols and Tainted animals such as the Aduns and Ugu.

The Global Army discovered the planet for the first time only sixty years before Khan's birth, which made it one of the last worlds discovered during the expansion of the human species.

## Planet features

Nitis has a dark-blue sky that made the entirety of the scenery dark, but a faint radiance managed to reach the surface anyway and create unclear shadows. Its terrain is uneven with many mountains that made crossing the wildness by foot a challenge.

The environment is generally cold due to the lack of sunlight, so snow often fills the landscape. Yet, there are also large lakes, rivers, plains, short mountains devoid of ice, and more.

### Flora

The flora didn't thrive much on the planet due to the absence of suitable nutrients. Sunlight didn't shine on the surface, and the ground wasn't as rich in mana as Istrone. Hence the vegetation is rather sparse.

### Fauna

The fauna thrived in every corner of Nitis. The planet didn't need the Nak to obtain the mana, so the animals evolved with that energy over countless years. Every creature in that world was a Tainted beast.

A monster is an unstable evolution of a Tainted animal. Mana can naturally cause mutations, even if it isn't as pure as the Nak's. Those are extremely rare events, but Nitis experiences them every once in a while due to the high number of Tainted beasts.

The planet featured Tainted animals that ate each other for years. In theory, that could trigger new mutations after a while. The chances were still incredibly low, but they weren't impossible anymore in front of the fauna of an entire planet.

### Nitis' solar system

Six planets orbited around a distant star, but every once two thousand years, their trajectory would progressively brought them closer to that small sun. This event would caused an eventual daylight of approximately two months on Nitis.

### Daylight

Before the actual daylight that occurs every two thousand years, cases of reflection from other nearby planets and solar wind can hit the planet. They are signs that daylight is coming. Nitis' unique atmosphere wouldn't even have dark areas once the star shone directly on the planet. The sky would spread its light everywhere and fill the surface with its radiation.

Consequently, the fauna -and even the Niqols' children- would mutate under the influence of the radiation, causing large scale monster outbreaks.

## Notable locations

### A Political Palace

Around this palace, a mountain chain creates a large valley that had a dark gorge in its middle. The valley had a vaguely rectangular shape, and the gorge connected its short sides. Flat areas filled with dark-grey grass and sparse spots with multicoloured flowers expanded from the long sides of the crack. At the same time, the short edges connected the mountain chain to the marvellous palace.

The palace had three main buildings connected by shorter structures that featured bridge-like passages at their top. The buildings at the sides had square shapes that ended up in flat roofs encircled in short black fences. Instead, the central construction was rectangular and featured two long balconies at its sides, with one opening on the valley and the other toward the mountain chain.

The entire palace was dark-grey, but its surfaces were darker when it came to the structures that connected the three buildings. Multiple black spots also filled each side of the structure and marked the presence of windows.

The palace didn't have battle purposes but was used for political reasons. It was purely an expression of the Niqols' artistic sense rather than a structure with deeper meanings.

### The Mountain Fortress

Hidden inside a mountain, accessible through a waterfall.