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North America

**North America** is a continent making up most of the northwestern quadrant of Earth in the late Second Carboniferous. It roughly corresponds to the former continent of the same name, including Greenland and with the addition of most of Central America.

## Geography and Climate

The central continent is dominated by a desert bordered by mountains and surrounded by areas of lush neoconiferous forest. Wetlands surround lakes and rivers and tend to be more biodiverse than drier areas.

## History

In salticid history, the continent has hosted multiple civilizations, cross-species and single-species. Most prominent were the Bold Empire, Californica, and the Marmorate.

## Species

North America hosts the following species of salticids:

* Platycryptus Salticids
* Phidippus Salticids

It also acts as home to several large ecosystems of animals, including:

* Wingtails
* Vast Weavers
* Kite Mites
* Plastic Insects
Mopsus Coastal Culture

The **Mopsus Coastal Culture** was an early Terran salticid stem culture.

## Origin

Most Mopsus Coastal beliefs came from the earliest versions of Terran cosmology. When a group of Mopsus left the Terran Mingle and formed its own organized state on the southeastern coast in about 200 PT, their beliefs developed independently of the inland culture, and independently of the other Mopsus ethnic group, which would go on to form the state of Vast Mopsus.

In about 400 PT, the formation of Helpis to the north created tension which eventually erupted into the Terran Coastal War. Once the Coastal Mopsus realized the strength of the Helpis military, and after witnessing its brutal power, they surrendered and came to an agreement, forming the semi-sovereign Mopsus Prefecture.

## Values

Coastal Mopsus did not rely on gender divisions as strictly as the inland Terran cultures. Males were seen as valuable, as opposed to their perceived disposability in the inland cultures, but they were also seen as a resource and rarely allowed autonomy. Coastal Mopsus are the only known salticid culture to not further divide female spiders into other categories, and thus the only known salticid culture with a gender binary.

## Current State

Mopsus Coastal Culture has largely been supplanted by both Portian and Helpis culture due to Portian colonization.
Helpis-Mopsus Contested Territory

The **Helpis-Mopsus Contested Territory** is a large area in the southeast of Pangea Proxima 1. It is inhabited by various groups of Helpis and Mopsus, many of whom feel some ownership of the land and some of whom are engaged in conflict over it.

## Origin

Some areas of the contested territory were originally part of the Helpis state, while others belonged to the semi-sovereign Helpis prefecture of Mopsus. War with Portia caused Helpis to lose its grip on Mopsus Prefecture, leading to the rise of several revolutionary and rebel groups.

Mopsus in the area mostly desire a return to the original Mopsus culture before Helpis interference, while many Helpis believe the territory was won fairly in war and wish to see it returned to the Helpis.
Silk Slavery

**Silk slavery** is the practice by salticids of forcing other salticids to produce large quantities of silk against their will, either for use in construction or as a method of torture.

## History

Silk slavery was utilized in a primitive, non-technological form by pre-Mingle Terran salticids against their prisoners, exiles, and enemies, but was only implemented on a massive scale by the Portians, first against the spiders of Vast Mopsus and then against the other Terran civilizations, specifically the Helpis and the Coastal Mopsus.

## Description

Silk slavery employs a device called a loom, into which a salticid is strapped down and rendered immobile. A line of their silk is carefully threaded onto a wheel, which is turned by another salticid to continually force silk production until a roll of silk is accumulated.
Hischecha

**Hischecha** was the third Queen of Portia. Her untimely death from a parasitic infection led to the first major fracturing of Portian power.

## History

Hischecha was born in 17 PT to her mother, Schifshech II, the second Queen of Portia. She assumed the throne in 33 PT and ruled for seven years before contracting a parasite and quickly succumbing to it in 40 PT.

When she was ten years old, Hischecha laid her first clutch of eggs, from which she chose her daughter Schifshacha as her heir. Before she died, the Portian parliament convinced her to name one of the slings from her fifth and latest clutch - Schichichenda - as her heir, despite the fact that she already had one. The Portian parliament considered Schifshacha to be a stubborn heir and wanted a younger heir who would bend more easily to their whims, invoking a part of the early-established Portian constitution to favor Schichichenda over her older sister as she was actually born during Hischecha's rule.

This controversial decision created two groups of Portian royals: the Shachans, who rallied around Schifshacha and believed she and her children deserved to rule, and the Chendans, who accepted the rule of Schichichenda as legitimate. Tensions between these two groups would eventually lead to the Portian Civil War.
Applejack (MLP)

**Applejack** is an orange, hard-working earth pony with blonde hair. Her cutie mark, a trio of apples, represents her talent for agriculture and her love for her family. She is characterized as a "farm gal" who sports a cowboy hat and lasso and speaks with a Southern accent. She works as an applefarmer at the Sweet Apple Acres orchard in Ponyville, using her strength to "buck" apples out of trees. She lives with her grandmother Granny Smith, her older brother Big McIntosh, her younger sister Apple Bloom, and her pet border collie Winona. Applejack's parents – Bright Mac (voiced by Bill Newton) and Pear Butter (voiced by Felicia Day), first seen in season seven thirteenth episode, "The Perfect Pear" – are deceased. Applejack is honest, courageous, forthright and the most "down-to-earth" of the Mane Six; being a trustworthy friend who is optimistic and has good judgement. She is also "too eager to please" and has a stubborn persona, with several episodes focused on her interaction with the Flim-Flam Brothers who exploit her vulnerabilities, or focusing on her taking up a "herculean task".
Bluster

A **bluster** is a term in most Terran cultures referring to a ghost, demon, wight, monster, or spirit. It is conceived of as a usually-malevolent creature of varying physicality and threat level which might harm, haunt, or even kill salticids.

In the Proto-Terran Religion and its descendant belief systems, the most well-known bluster is Moonbluster, a godlike parasite expected to end the world.
Livestock Spiders

In salticid society, **livestock spiders** are the descendants of vast weavers which have been cultivated for food.

## Description

Livestock spiders are physiologically identical to their vast weaver ancestors with a few exceptions. They have been selectively bred to be less aggressive, larger, plumper, and tastier, with more bloated and fattier innards. Weaver domestication has occurred on all continents and the term "livestock spider" is polyphyletic, describing many different similarly modified species.

## Husbandry

Salticids farm livestock spiders by placing them in a wooden frame as spiderlings and closing it off with twigs, grass, and silk until the spider makes its web. Some livestock spiders are cultivated in the open air while others are strictly confined with more than one frame to create a cage. Livestock spiders are primarily fed wingtails, which are also often cultivated in similar cages but may be caught wild by salticid gatherers.

Once a livestock spider is fully grown and plump, it is removed from the frame, wrapped up in web, and distributed live to salticid family groups for feeding.

In Portia, farming of livestock spiders is a local industry and generally not outsourced due to the difficulty of transporting heavy prey across the continent.
Knighted Queen Schifshech

**Schifshech**, known in Portia as the **Knighted Queen**, was a Portian salticid leader. She was instrumental in the Founding of Portia and plays a significant role in the Portian cultural consciousness.

## History

Schifshech was born in about -20 PT to a Portian canopy in the Terran Mingle. At this point, the first tensions between the Mingle species were developing, and were exacerbated by extensive theological arguments and ideological differences that had cropped up between communities. Notably, Portian supremacy as a mindset had been festering, since the Portians had long believed themselves to be the first storytellers and originators of Proto-Terran myth.

According to the accounts of multiple species' histories, Schifshech rallied and raised an army of about two hundred separate canopies over the course of two years. They planned an attack on leaders of other species' canopies while simultaneously scouting a path west toward forests they knew were largely uninhabited, thanks to the obstacle of the Eurasian Mountains and the threat of the Solenopsids. Under the leadership of Schifshech and through the employment of aggressive guerilla tactics against a largely unprepared Mingle population, the majority of Portian salticids in the Mingle split off and fought their way toward the west, where they settled and formed the Portian state. In the process, the first official war between Portia and the Solenopsids began, and would continue with constant skirmishes on the eastern border of the country until the final Ant War around 600 PT forced the Solenopsids back into the mountains permanently.

After becoming the first Portian Queen and producing dozens of slings, Schifshech died in 15 PT at the age of 35, elderly by salticid standards.

## In Portian Mythology

Portian myth holds Schifshech up as a legendary warrior and trickster figure. In one story, a young Schifshech saw Moonbluster come down from the sky to end the world, and fought it off singlehandedly until it crawled back into the Moon. It was widely believed that Schifshech had divine inspiration for her break from the Mingle, which is itself mythologized into a much larger conflict than it would have been. Doubtlessly, many small factions had broken off from the Mingle before, but unlike Portia had not lasted long as independent states or had backing from the majority of members of a whole species.
Arthropod Sapience

**Arthropod sapience** is the occurrence of selected traits - including problem solving skills, critical thinking, ethical thinking, emotion, suffering, altruism, and empathy - within populations of arthropods.

It has evolved separately in both salticids and giant solenopsids, as well as in various other arthropod populations, as a result of evolutionary pressure immediately succeeding the Sixth Mass Extinction.

Traditionally, the brains of arthropods were not large enough to support this adaptation, but due to an increase in the oxygen level of the atmosphere over 20 million years, arthropods were able to grow much larger than even in the first Carboniferous.
Mites

Acari, or **mites**, are a diverse group of arachnids. Second in number only to springtails, they are an omnipresent group of wildlife in the Second Carboniferous, occupying many different niches.

## Evolution

   Mites are a polyphyletic group, representing many separate lineages in the subclass Acari. Their earliest representatives in the fossil record date back to the Ordovician. Among the survivors of the Sixth Mass Extinction were predatory and detritivorous mites, while most mites with more specialized lifestyles, such as those that relied on a specific host plant or parasitized a particular species of animal, died out. Detritivorous mites faced mild competition with springtails for abundant food, mostly human garbage, while predatory mites preyed on both springtails and their own detritivorous cousins. Stability of their food sources as well as their small size and hardiness allowed these animals to survive the mass extinction and rediversify once the climate cooled and the ecological niches to support them opened up.

Mites, like springtails, radiated quickly about 10 million years after the present, with their anatomy being radically altered and reshaped by the forces of evolution.

## Representatives

* Kite Mites
* Silk Mites
Tarsals (Plastic Insect Order)

**Tarsals** are an order of plastic insects characterized by their huge hind tarsal claws, their fused elytra, and their airborne predatory lifestyle. They are rare on the Terran continent but abundant in the Americas.

## Description

Descended from beetles, tarsals have small, three-segmented bodies with one huge fused elytron and delicate, precision-shaped hindwings positioned beneath it. Their bodies are aerodynamically curved in a crescent moon shape.

Tarsals spend most of their time hovering in a single spot waiting for prey to approach. They are ambush predators, and many employ camouflage to disguise themselves as a type of berry or branch outgrowth, seeking out that plant to hover near. When prey nears, the tarsal will quickly swoop in and capture it with its sharp hind claws, holding it still and repeatedly puncturing it on sharp claw spikes. Due to their specialized wing structure and the ability to hold themselves upright, they are capable of eating struggling, still-living prey while hovering in one spot, passing the prey with their basket-like middle and front legs up to the mouth and holding it in place.

## In Salticid Society

Many salticids, especially North and South American cultures, use Tarsal elytra as decoration for clothing and architecture.
Second Carboniferous

The **Second Carboniferous** is a period beginning 10 million years in the future of Earth's history and continuing until at least 200 million years in the future. It is characterized by mass forestation, arthropod gigantism, and a homogenous global temperate climate.

## Origins

While a number of factors contributed to the conditions of the Second Carboniferous, its chief cause was the Sixth Mass Extinction, which ended the prominence of vertebrates on the planet and opened up a plethora of ecological niches which were quickly filled by arthropods such as springtails, mites, and plastic insects.

## Salticid Evolution

As the Anthropocene came to a close and the Second Carboniferous began, arthropod sapience, especially in jumping spiders, began to take shape due to evolutionary pressure. Behaviors which had evolved before in select populations of jumping spiders, such as the genus Portia and its spider-luring ability or the complex mating behavior and displays of the genus Maratus, convergently appeared in other species around the world. Social bonds began to form between members of the same species. This pushed salticids to develop culture, both within their own species and between other species.

Early sapient salticid species in the same geographic area tended to view each other not as prey but as potential companions, establishing a tentative cross-species altruism that would eventually be strained with the development of systems of intense social stratification. Salticids developed the concept of gender as a way of dividing labor between members of the same group and exerting power over each other. Early salticid cultures were chiefly separated by geography alone and include the Terran Mingle, the Pan-Platycryptan Stem Culture, the Helpis Coastal Culture, the Mopsus Coastal Culture, and the Bold-Bagheeran Mingle.
Silk Mites

**Silk mites** are mites that live in and on strands of web created by spiders, including Vast Weavers, Livestock Spiders, and salticids.

## Description

Silk mites measure about four to six inches in length as adults. They are sleek, quick creatures with adaptive pedipalps allowing them to comb through strands of web for organic material without breaking it. Their footsteps are quick and light so as to not attract the attention of the spiders whose webs they live in and around. They consume the dry remains of spiders' prey, forming a symbiotic relationship by keeping the web clean of rot and potential obstacles.

## Role in Salticid Society

Due to the prominent method of salticid burial, silk mites scavenge and eventually fully disassemble salticid corpses. They are known spiritually in most Terran religions as deliverers of the dead, responsible for carrying the bodies of spiders gradually off to the Highest World.
Plastic Insects

**Plastic Insects** are a subclass of insects derived from a population of *Tenebrio molitor* engineered by humans in the twenty-first century as part of an effort to clean Earth's solid plastic waste pollution.

## History

In the early twenty-first century, some human scientists observed the remarkable ability of *Tenebrio molitor* larvae to consume styrofoam. A twenty-year project to engineer a strain of plastic-neutralizing beetles followed, employing various genetic engineering strategies ranging from selective breeding to the use of laboratory gene editing. It culminated in the 2030s and populations of the modified beetles were released in large numbers worldwide, especially in dumps and landfills. Legal protections on the species were passed to ensure they would be able to complete their work.

These populations thrived in great numbers and soon became a near-ubiquitous pest due to their ability to consume almost any material, including house siding, rusted metal, and various sealants. This led to protections on the species being revoked and specialized pest extermination services thriving, resulting in the deployment of more insecticide which mostly just harmed native insect populations. Plastic insects survived the Sixth Mass Extinction, being hardy, unspecialized scavengers with a near-inexhaustible food supply.

## Phylogeny

In the Second Carboniferous, these animals have diversified into a number of forms, outcompeting similar insects which were more vulnerable to the pressures of the Anthropocene and radiating into many specialized orders of insect with radically different lifestyles:

* Coleopteroids - the least changed from the original coleopteran body plan of the tenebrionid ancestor.
* Neocoleopteroids - in which the elytra have evolved back into softer front wings.
	+ New Moths - the elytra and second wings have become larger and heavily decorated, with a similar appearance to moths and butterflies.
* Eusocials - an order characterized by its high level of sociality, closely related to the coleopteroids.
* Tarsals - characterized by their huge tarsal claws, which are used to swipe prey directly out of the air. Their elytra have fused into a single umbrella-like structure that helps keep them aloft while their wings are used for hovering and precision steering.
Dixi: Dracula

The League of Ordinary Heroes: Dracula was a cover of the same film "Dracula" by Bram Stoker on 14th Feb 2018.

## Video series summary

Billie and the heroes have put together their version of Bram Stoker's Dracula for Billie's English coursework, will they get to the end? There are 5 videos in this series where all of Dixi 4 cast is presented and plays one character in their cover of the film, while Billie is narrating.

## Characters in Dixi: Dracula

* Billie (Narrating and a temporary Mina Harker because Amani was not back from Athletics )
* Bubs (**Jonathan Harker)**
* Django ( Ms Malik had him redo all of the plug sockets)
* Selene (as **Professor Abraham Van Helsing)**
* Amani (**Mina Harker)**
* Scarlett (Reformed and released from the Greenhouse, she is one of the backstage cast)
* Jane (Backstage and Vampire)
* Viktor (Backstage and Vampire)
* Emma (as **Count Dracula)**
* Abi (as **Lucy Westenra** and a vampire)
* Blake (he was doing litter picking duties)
* Ms Malik (she is infected and participated in this play)
The Great Flower (Terran myth)

The **Great Flower** is a figure in Terran myth and its associated religions. Along with Sky, Moon, Ground, Moonbluster, and the First Spider, it is a member of the base pantheon of Proto-Terran deities.

## Origin

The Great Flower represents the Andromeda Galaxy, which was interpreted as a huge flower in the sky by early Terran storytellers. As the Milky Way and Andromeda move closer together, Andromeda's size in the sky has increased, making it distinct and clearly visible as a unique astronomical object by the Second Carboniferous.

## Interpretations

Most cultures who shared the Great Flower character worshiped it as a good and pure being, symbolizing the natural world's innocence and its fall from grace after Moon defiled it. The Coastal Mopsus, whose religion was a blend of earlier independent beliefs and central Terran beliefs, considered the Flower to be another salticid - sometimes called Stars, and usually positioned as the broodmate of Moon - who challenged Moon for reproductive access to Ground. Moon killed Stars, which led to her corpse scattering all over the sky and her soul remaining in place forever as a reminder of Moon's brutality.
The Shredder

## Character Information

### Occupation:

Destroying the Drew Fletcher Academy's Exam Papers and trashing Ms Malik's office.

The Shredder or Eraser or Deleter (depending on who Billie spoke to) is the person who destroyed all of the Drew Fletcher Academy exam papers and trashing Ms Malik office . As a result Ms Malik put Billie and Selene into the Greenhouse and didn't go to school for a while. At the end of the Dixi Friends4Ever game it was revealed that the Shredder is Abi because she was protecting her dad.
Clingers

**Clingers** are a springtail genus inhabiting most of Pangea Proxima 1.

## Description

Clingers range from one to three inches in length. Similar to wingtails, they have special legs adapted for gliding, though they are not capable of powered flight. As their name suggests, they spend most of their time clinging to the outsides of tree trunks and branches.

Clinger mouthparts have evolved a complex piercing and scraping mechanism. In herbivorous species, the action of the mouthparts is used to pierce bark and access the soft parts of trees which are then eaten. In others, the mouth is used to kill small invertebrates and slice them into edible portions.

## Role in Salticid Society

Salticids usually do not eat clingers due to both their bitter taste and their painful bite response. They are occasionally used in livestock spider cultivation as feeders, especially smaller gourmet species farmed in Portian colonies.
Portian Salticids

**Portian salticids**, or just **Portians**, are a salticid species. They developed from modern salticids in the genus Portia over the course of the Anthropocene and Second Carboniferous.

## Origin

Although modern Portia spiders are found throughout Africa and Asia, it was a Central African population that eventually became Portian salticids. Their range includes most of the supercontinent Pangea Proxima 1.

## Description

Portians have much the same anatomy as other salticids. They resemble dead leaves, with lots of decorative ridges and edges built into their anatomy. Females are brownish-red and often vibrantly colored; males are generally darker in color and less vibrant, with occasional blue tinges.

## Abilities

On the quicker and lighter side of salticid biology, Portians are nimble but fragile.

## Society

Portian salticids were represented among the first species in the Terran Mingle. Portian, Hyllus, Helpis, and Mopsus salticids cooperatively developed the Proto-Terran Religion through communal storytelling and the invention of writing. In 0 PT, the Portians became the first ethno-cultural group to split off from the whole of the Mingle, something that would not happen again until about 200 years later with the formation of the Mopsus Coastal Culture. Using the isolation brought by the Eurasian mountain range and the hostility of the ants that lived there to their advantage, the breakaway group of Portians founded Great Portia and shunned the rest of the Mingle species, becoming the first Terran ethnostate.
Wingtails

**Wingtails** are a descendant family of modern springtails which thrive in the inland rainforests of the Second Carboniferous.

## Description

Wingtails are creatures the size of bats which play a similar role. Their legs have evolved special hairs resembling feathers, creating a complex apparatus allowing for long-distance gliding. Their furculae have become modified appendages which, in concert with a modified, flexible abdominal structure, allow them to cling to tree branches and hang upside-down. Arguably, wingtails are capable of powered flight, though their ability to fly is clumsy and often interrupted by furcula thrashing.

These animals feed by flinging themselves with great force from their perches and gliding across tracts of forest, snapping up smaller gliding arthropods such as clingers and their kin as well as some of the smaller flying plastic insects. Wingtails have an uncanny ability to predict the flight path of approaching arthropods by detecting small vibrations in the air with their leg setae, which they position like a fan when hanging upside-down in order to hone in on their prey. Hanging wingtails also feed by scraping moss, fungi, and lichens off branches when these materials are available.

## Role in Salticid Society

Due to their small size relative to salticids, as well as the bitter taste of their innards, wingtails generally are not eaten directly, but are instead farmed as feeders for livestock spiders. Wingtail farming is almost universal in salticid society, having been developed independently on all three continents and most islands.
Portia-Helpis War

The **Portia-Helpis War** was a conflict between the Helpis State and Portia. It lasted almost ten years, starting in 730 PT and ending in 739 PT.

## History

Around 720 PT, Portia began colonizing Vast Mopsus, utilizing oppressive systems such as silk slavery and outsourcing production of materials such as luxury goods to enslaved communities. Helpis, which was allied with Vast Mopsus, closely monitored the activity and eventually declared war on Portia when it realized that the superpower did not intend to stop its colonizing. Through the course of the next decade, Portia pushed Helpis forces further and further in on the territory, with Helpis eventually surrendering and becoming the largely Portian-controlled Helpis Prefecture.
Documentism

**Documentism** is a salticid belief system based on the literal application of the teachings of the Document in daily life. It is the state religion of Portia and the Portian Empire.

## History

Documentism has its origins in the late Terran Mingle, developing from a belief that Mingle society had veered too far away from the Document's teachings and did not take its stories and mythology literally enough. It held that the gods were literal beings who judged salticids harshly and whose will should be followed at all costs by every member of society. By the -20s PT, most Terran salticids believed in the gods as abstract representations of ideas told by storytellers, and favored a belief system that emphasized personal growth and a personal relationship to the gods and nature rather than rigid religious structure. These beliefs would eventually crystallize into Terran Sun Worship, and the conflict between these two emerging ideologies was probably at the root of the Founding of Portia and the Portian claim to the ideas and characters in the Document as their own.
Arborea

*This page serves to provide information for both the land of Arborea as well as information about elvish culture.*

**Arborea** is the feudal nation of the elves and is ruled over by the Eladrin Shogunate. After the Storm, the elves have become a very isolated people. Their borders are guarded vigorously, and no non-elf is permitted to enter Arborean soil without paperwork from the Shogun himself.

## Geography

The island itself is separated into four regions, each representing one of the four seasons. While having varying climates, the lands themselves are protected naturally by the current of the sea. The mainland territory of Avilogne was founded on the eastern coast, and functions more as a military base than anything else. Transportation between Arborea and Avilogne is done through teleportation circles, which have presumably been in place since even before the Magi Imperium.
Kohess

**Kohess** - also known as **Kwesh**, **Kohessa**, or **Earlyday** - was a Pliant Helpis rebel and a major figure in the end of the Portian colonial period of Terran history. She was the only spider to survive the entirety of Obissa's Voyage.

## Early Life

Kohess was born in 823 PT to unknown parents in the former Helpis-Mopsus Contested Territory. Her family, despite their compliance, was one of many subjected to raids by Portia intended to intimidate the loosely-organized area into further lock-step with colonial rule. They became separated, and Kohess was taken in by a group of mostly Coastal Mopsus headed for the safety of the Rebel Stronghold. Much of her childhood was spent hiding in caves for weeks at a time to avoid Portian patrols. Her adoptive family taught her how to survive on the buds of the Earlyday plant, a carnivorous flower that contained life-saving nutrition and could be utilized by spiders during difficult periods. She named herself after this flower in the Coastal Mopsus language.

As part of the rebellion, Kohess found she had a knack for spying, and was quickly recruited in her youth to assist in away missions beyond the mountains. She was captured several times by Portia and always managed to escape, earning her a reputation among the Vital Force as a dangerous foe.

## Part in the Obissan Voyage

In 831 PT, Kohess was sent to spy on the Royal Portian Canopy, the farthest she had ever gone into enemy territory. She was captured by a Vital Force patrol just east of the Royal Canopy and escaped, only to be captured again and sentenced to death. While she was imprisoned, the Portian Princess Skif betrayed her mother and released Kohess, in exchange for the promise that she would be accepted in the rebellion. The two were soon joined by Obissa and headed west. They constructed a bowl and made their way across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming some of the first Terran spiders to ever reach the Hemiterran Continent.
The After Wiki

This is a personal-use hub for information about the universe of The After, created and curated by Liam Philipson.

## Getting Started

For information on the background of the world, check the Geological and Historical timeline pages.

To learn about its inhabitants, read up on salticids and check out the animals category to learn about the wildlife.
Engineered Cyanobacteria

During the late twenty-first century, huge populations of **cyanobacteria** were engineered for extended survivability and deployed worldwide in a last-ditch effort to stop the planet from becoming uninhabitable to humans.

While the effect of this sudden influx of organisms is difficult to grasp, it may have been responsible for the oxygen boom that supported arthropod gigantism and as a result shaped the ecosystem of the Second Carboniferous.
Geographical Map of the Second Carboniferous Earth

## Reference

1. Alaskan Chain
2. New Rockies
3. Dry Mountains
4. Eastern Fangs
5. Bold Refuge Mountains
6. Sweet Lake
7. Relief-from-the-wind Lake
8. Old Undatus Lake
9. Western Palps
10. Eastern Palps
11. Safe River
12. Northern Border River
13. River Undatus
14. Chelicerae Rivers
15. New Andes
16. High Swamp Basin
17. Low Swamp Basin
18. Kiplingi Split River
19. West Portian Mountains
20. East Portian Mountains
21. Hyllus Peaks
22. Eurasian Mountains
23. Lower Eurasian Peaks
24. Minitibundan Wall-of-the-Coast
25. The Impasse
26. Edge of the Mingle
27. Western Cradle
28. Eastern Cradle
29. Lake Fimbriata
30. Lake Portia
31. Lake Hischecha
32. Lesser Mopsus Lake (Lower Mopsus Wetland)
33. Greater Mopsus Lake (Lower Mopsus Wetland)
34. East Lake Mopsus
35. Hidden Lake
36. Mountain Lake
37. Helpis Lake (Helpis Wetlands)
Parasites

**Parasites** are organisms that survive through the sustained harm and sometimes death of another organism. In the context of salticid culture, parasites are organisms that feed from and cause issues for salticids. Although salticids suffer viral, bacterial, and fungal infections, parasites are the most visible and culturally relevant form of illness in their societies.
Helpis (Terran state)

**Helpis** was an independent state that covered most of the southern half of Pangea Proxima 1. It was taken over by Portia during the Portian colonial period, with its inhabitants being subjected to Portian systems of government and belief.

## History

Helpis emerged from the Terran Mingle along with the early Portian, Hyllus, Mopsus, and Coastal Mopsus cultures. In 400 PT, the Helpis state officially formed, peacefully splitting from Vast Mopsus, which would go on to be one of its closest allies and trade partners. The successful defeat and subsequent annexation of the coastal Mopsus Prefecture, as well as a campaign of expansion into the largely-spiderless western half of the lower continent, cemented the status of Helpis as a world power in the pre-colonial period.

Despite having a largely ethnocentric perspective, with mostly Helpis salticids in power throughout the course of the state's history, Helpis was known for its multispecies population. Nearly a third of the population consisted of other species of salticids, with Helpis being a common destination for members of other nations who were exiled or otherwise unable or unwilling to live in their home countries. Multispecies canopies were uncommon, but not unheard of.

When Portia invaded Vast Mopsus through 720-730 PT, Helpis declared war on the superpower, which already had its sights on the state. A ten-year war played out, over the course of which Helpis was pushed further and further back into itself until its defeat in 739 PT. It was transformed by Portia into the semi-independent Helpis Prefecture and ruled by a series of Portian-assigned puppet leaders.

## Society

Helpis had its own belief system born out of the Proto-Terran Religion. In this belief system, the figure of Sun was held up as a mighty warrior and trickster god worthy of massive praise and worship. In turn, the role and figure of the Vital was held in high regard, with heavy restrictions on salticids who could not live up to the ideals of physicality, beauty, and strength represented by the Sun character.

In contrast to other societies, which often painted other species of spiders as having been separated from the whole for some wrongdoing, Helpis Sun worship taught that all species were created at the same time, and while each was different they all traced their ancestry back to Sun and were therefore equal.
Bifrons

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Bifrons is the 46th IGIGI in Gehlen Group. Bifrons pronouns are they/he/she. They appear in the form of a monster at first but after a while, at the command of the Exorcist, they putteth on the shape of a man.

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Their office is to make one knowing in astrology, geometry, other arts and sciences. Also to teach the virtues of all herbs, precious stones and woods.

They change the dead bodies and put them into another place and light candles seemingly upon the graves of the dead. They have under their command six legions of Derro.

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Solenopsids

A **solenopsid** is the proper name for a member of the society formed by a species of sapient solenopsis ant in the Second Carboniferous.

## Description

Adult Solenopsids are four to five feet in body length.

Ants, especially those with more generalized abilities and predatory lifestyles, thrived all through the Anthropocene and into the Second Carboniferous. On average, most ants in the Second Carboniferous are much larger than their early Anthropocene counterparts, and range from one to five feet in body length. Larger ants with larger brain capacities became more intelligent as a result.

## Society

Solenopsids are eusocial. They communicate using a pheromone network and are completely altruistic within their colonies. Their colonies consist of many workers, soldiers, and majors, with one egg-laying queen.

As a distinct species, Solenopsids evolved from a smaller, less intelligent ancestor somewhere on Pangea Proxima 1 and have existed in scattered colonies for much of the Second Carboniferous.

## History

Because of the biological communication barrier, salticids and Solenopsids tend to struggle to understand each other. This, along with the natural territorial aggression possessed by ants, has led to a number of conflicts throughout Terran salticid history. In the Terran Mingle, Solenopsids were considered the same as any other dangerous predators and often hunted by salticids, who eliminated the majority of colonies. Eventually only one allied group of supercolonies was left and, using a geographical advantage, was able to aggressively expand its territory to cover the Eurasian Mountains and the area immediately surrounding them.

In about 600 PT, Portia and Vast Mopsus allied together to fight a two-front war and drive the Solenopsids into the Eurasian Mountains.
Norway in OSC

Norway has Participated in OSC since edition 1. There broadcaster is NTV and Head of Delagation is @Marik#0459 . There best Result was in Barcelona where Sigrid placed 8th with 64 points.

**Edition 1**

In Edition 1 Marik announced that Sigrid would represent Norway . Sigrid agreed to the rules that Norway has on its participants. She placed 8th in Barcelona with 64 points. She said “ I am pleased about my result thank you for voting for me.” @Marik#0459 has now confirmed fo edition 2,and edition 3
Other Song Contest Wiki

## Other Song Contest

The OFFICIAL Wiki For The Other Song Contest

Go check the list of Countries

## Other Song Contest

**The Other Song Contest** often shortened to **OSC**, is a song contest on Youtube held among the members of the Other Broadcasting Union since July 2019. The current and official executive supervisor is ESC MARIOSPAIN. The current executive supervisor is the King Bilal Hassani**.**

Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition, either by internal or national selection. The countries get to vote in a number of shows (semi-finals and a final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition.

## History

On July 2019, Mario and Bilal Hassani, executives supervisors of the Other Broadcasting Union decided to open an international music contest in which every member of the OBU can take part by sending artists representing their countries with songs. It was called Other Song Contest. In the beginnings the contest was not fully developed so there were a lot of rules changing in that phase. Currently, the OBU Council has the control over the contest, recaps, staging and results videos. The first ever Other Song started on 16th April 2019. It was held in the Barcelona, Spain also was the first ever country to host the Other Song Contest. 18 nations took part in the first edition each submitting one entry to the contest. Each country awarded one set of points from 1-12: from their professional jury. The voting procedure has not changed since then.

## Participation

Any full member of the OBU is allowed to send a song for the Other Song Contest. Countries that are not full members can apply for becoming one. The Other Broadcasting Union has already accepted some countries that were not full members of the OBU at the beginnings of the OSC. However, the OBU has also already declined a lot of nations and states that wanted to become a full member - and to participate in the Other Song Contest.

## OSCC

The **Other Second Chance Contest**often shorted as**OSCC** is the junior spin-off of the **Other Song Contest!**National Final Songs that couldn't represent their country are able to make it here.
Pokémon Millennial Edition

**Pokémon Millennial Edition** is an unreleased game from developer Arcane Kids featuring first-person shooter gameplay inspired by Attack on Titan's Vertical Maneuvering Equipment combined with the world of Pokémon. The only known footage of Pokémon Millennial Edition comes from a single video uploaded to the official Arcane Kids YouTube channel, and the game was possibly developed for this sole purpose.

## Development

Pokémon Millennial Edition was developed off the open source PokemonNXT, a now-defunct Pokemon MMO fan game for Unity.

## Gameplay

Playing as a Pokémon trainer, players use Attack on Titan's Vertical Maneuvering Equipment to quickly grapple their way great distances through the air by attaching their grapple to the variety of massive Pokémon wandering the landscape and using momentum to swing from target to target. Firing an unlimited stream of Poké Balls which continually shrink the Pokémon upon contact, the player is tasked with gradually reducing the size of the mammoth Pokémon and eventually capturing them. Included is a drivable truck to help players navigate the world, and support for multiple players to assist in capturing Pokémon.

## External links

Pokémon Millennial Edition [3D Action RPG shooter FAN GAME]
Springtails

Collembola, or **springtails**, are a group of hexapod invertebrates closely related to insects. They are present in vast numbers in the ecosystems of the Second Carboniferous, filling numerous niches previously occupied by other organisms, although some remain scavenger microfauna and continue in the style of their ancestors.

Springtails are known for a specialized appendage, the furcula, which in their modern representatives is used to escape potential threats by launching the animal at random. In future springtails, the furcula has diversified into new forms and functions.

## Evolution

As part of the hexapod lineage, springtails are attested to in the fossil record dating back to the Devonian Period. They began as cryptozoa with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution, being able to adapt to most weather conditions. Collembola in the Anthropocene fed on decaying organic material as well as organisms that thrived on it, including fungus and bacteria. They were responsible for the redistribution of soil microorganisms and considered the backbone of soil health alongside other small invertebrates such as mites and nematodes.

During the Sixth Mass Extinction, most springtails thrived. While their diversity was slightly cut back, the majority of non-specialized springtail species were able to adapt to the changing climate, which favored the smallest and toughest species. Tropical springtails especially thrived in the new climate, and easily outcompeted larger organisms in similar roles such as woodlice and detritivorous beetles. Due to their small size and thus slightly differently-scaled diet they were unaffected by the prevalence of plastic insects, which survived due to their near-ubiquity and their ability to subsist on plentiful human garbage. As the climate began to recover and shift into the Second Carboniferous, springtails were able to diversify and shift into more specialized roles previously occupied by other organisms.

## Representatives

* Wingtails
* Clingers
* Scavenger microfauna
Royal Portian Canopy

The **Royal Portian Canopy** is the monarchic governing body of the Portian state. It consists of the Portian Queen; her Pliant consort of two to three hundred Portian salticids; the Queensguard, or Vital Force; and the Queen's Vital offspring.

## History

The first Portian Royal was the Knighted Queen Schifshech, who established the monarchy and its structure in about 4 PT just after the Founding of Portia. She also established the precedent of choosing the next Queen from her own children, and created the Queensguard from both her own Vital daughters and the band of Portian secessionists who followed her during the breakway from the Mingle.

Every Portian Queen is able to trace her ancestry back to Schifshech, but there is a history of strife among noble families descended from her who claim the right to the throne for themselves and their offspring.

## Notable Portian Queens

#### First Queens

* Knighted Queen Schifshech
	+ Born in -20 PT
	+ Ruled 0 - 15 PT
	+ Died of old age
* Queen Schifschech II
	+ Born in 2 PT
	+ Ruled 15 - 33 PT
	+ Died of old age
* Queen Hischecha
	+ Born in 17 PT
	+ Ruled 33 - 40 PT
	+ Died of a parasitic infection
* Child Queen Schichichenda
	+ Born in 34 PT
	+ Ruled 40 - 69 PT
	+ Died of old age
* Queen Schiffichesh
	+ Born in 47 PT
	+ Ruled 69 - 77 PT
	+ Died of unspecified illness
* Queen Schichasech
	+ Born in 70 PT
	+ Ruled 77 - 102 PT
	+ Died of old age
* Queen Hinenda
	+ Born in 81 PT
	+ Ruled 102 - 115 PT
	+ Died of old age

#### Civil War Queens

* Queen Schifshech IV
	+ Born in 227 PT
	+ Ruled 241 - 243 PT
	+ Killed by Blishah
* Queen Blishah the Usurper
	+ Born in 223 PT
	+ Ruled 243 - 252 PT
	+ Died of old age

#### Queens during the Portia-Hyllus War

* Queen Schifsha
	+ Born in 484 PT
	+ Ruled 495 - 504 PT
	+ Died of a parasitic infection
* Queen Skischif the Conflagration
	+ Born in 496 PT
	+ Ruled 504 - 531 PT
	+ Died of old age
* Queen Hicorsech the Pious
	+ Born in 509 PT
	+ Ruled 531 - 555 PT
	+ Died of old age

#### Queen during the Ant War

* Queen Schiffa the Antmonger
	+ Born in 591 PT
	+ Ruled 600 - 628 PT
	+ Died of old age
Babylon

Greetings! This is the wiki for the Grimoire, a hub for knowledge about the world of Grim-Gaia (created and written by Rose Ball, as well as adventurer's like you).

## Major Bodies of Water

* **Sea of Black Ice** - The large body of water that separates the Northern Continent from the rest of the world, it remains in a constant state of shifting and freezing.
* **Umbral Ocean** - The ocean that covers the rest of Tartarus. It is named after it's dark, shadowy sand, which makes the water almost impossible to see through when looking downward.
United Frontier States

*This page serves to provide information about the nation of unified city-states called the United Frontier States.*

The United Frontier States, more commonly referred to as the UFS, is a nation of 20 city-states whom are most entrenched in the perils of the Wild Frontier. Each city-state is individually responsible for the well-being of their people, but a council of representatives from each state

## Geography

Separated by the other nations by a dense mountain range and expansive forests, the UFS rarely interact with the rest of Gaia. The geographical layout of the UFS is broken down into three sections: the Northern States, the Middle States, and the Southern States.

### **The Northern States**

The Northern States covered a sizable chunk of the UFS, although they provided perhaps the least resources for the rest of the UFS. Most of the soil is rocky and not suited well for farmland, with the land getting more mountainous and hilly the further west you traveled.

### **The Middle States**

The Middle States are similar geographically to the Northern States, with the biggest difference being the more fertile soil.

### **The Southern States**

The Southern States have perhaps the most fertile soil in all of the UFS, which has such sculpted the land into a seemingly endless farm-scape.

## Trade

The UFS relies heavily on their trade routes to ensure that each state are living somewhat comfortably. The Northern States provide a majority of the stone and lumber for the other states, with the South providing most of the food. The Middle States serve as a kind of meeting ground, with each town having trade halls in the center of town. The Middle States are also the craftsmen of the UFS, providing most of the tools and other wares for the rest of the states.
She Might Be Giant

Karen determined to stop Giganta, after upgrading her Bumblebee suit

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***She Might Be Giant*** is the twelfth episode of the first season of the series *DC Super Hero Girls*. The episode first aired on June 2, 2019. The episode features Karen trying to upgrade her Bumblebee suit so she can become gigantic instead of tiny. Karen tests her upgraded suit against Giganta after she beats the rest of the Super Hero Girls.