Moonskar Island

## Background

Moonskar Island is an ancient landmass shrouded in mystery and magic. Constantly shrouded in fog, the crescent shaped island rises hundreds of feet out of the ocean. There are small coves with black sand beaches that quickly rise and come to forests. The forests of Moonskar Island are dense and eerie. The trees are blackened and hang low to the ground. Towards the center of the crescent Island is a round crater like area, devoid of any trees or plants. At the center of the massive crater is a body of water, constantly spinning in a whirlpool into the black abyss. Above the center of the whirlpool hovers a strange, rough, sphere of stone. The stone glows a cool blue, with streaks of lightning like electricity moving through the stone. The land on the Island is flat and rocky, with few things growing on the ground. Many caves and canyons exist in small gaps in the forest. The sphere at the center of the island makes it a very dangerous center for radiation. It also binds the island with an enhanced connection with **opa** and Blin. The island's fog is flowing with energy, a dark energy that permeates throughout the forests of the island. The fog can increase the strength of traveler's blin, but it comes with other dangers.

## Creatures

Few creatures survive in the odd wasteland on Moonskar. During the day it is dead, no creatures walk the surface of the island. They hide underneath the surface, leaving the large forests barren and silent. The fog covers the areas on the surface of the Island making the days dim and bleak. But at night the forests come alive. The trees glow a soft blue below the blackened bark, engulfing the whole Island a dim sickly blue smoke. The amphibious creatures that lived beneath the Island in water filled caves move out of their hiding spaces and take to the tops of the trees to take in the light of the moon that they draw their power from.

### Stalkers

The apex predator of the island are creatures like none other. They are creatures of pure terror and thrive in the fear of the fog covered island. They have sunken into myth, after the terror bombs dropped, few remembered the stories of these dangerous hunters. Only four of their kind remain. They dwell beneath the island, where no light exists, waiting for night to hunt for prey. Over years of evolution they adapted to hunt sources of increased blin energy. There appearance is menacing, standing an imposing 8 feet tall on all fours. Covered in slick blackened flesh, they have a slim but powerful frame, that makes a large but easily camouflaged body. They walk on long spindly forelegs that bend like hooves, and slim but powerful rear legs that end with long reptile like claws. There body is flesh and bone, no muscle cover the sharp ribs, or the spiked spine. They possess a tail like that of a scorpion, with a large stinger, and a blade like barb at the end. The Stalkers hunt others for blin energy. They use their tails to sap the energy of their prey, leaving them crippled and easy to finish off. They can heal themselves by sapping other's blin, and channel the energy for their own attacks. They hunt only at night, but they are deadly when in their element, and are the last thing anyone wants to see in the fog of Moonskar Island.