Flora and Fauna of Payalwa

Introduction

Payalwa’s landscape supports a distinctive range of flora and fauna adapted to its temperate marshy lowland conditions. This page lists some of the more unique creatures and plants native to Payalwa.

Flora

Velharrama - A shrub that is known for it's bright red berries. The berries release a sweet smell and eating them is known to allow the eater to experience a vivid a story. Storytellers thus use the berries to generate new ideas or remember old tales.

Brumerva - A pale marsh fern whose leaves are often used in teas and poultices.

Velhudo - A mash fungus tied to folktales about silent monks wandering the swampy landscape.

Avoredo - The most common tree in the Western Lowlands in Payalwa.

Fauna

Etching of a Panten head

Pantens - Large mammals creates with wide hooves that can easily cross marshy peat.

Jacas - Reptilian swamp dwellers.

Xiphos - Deer like mammal that lives throughout Payalwa.

Hesperon - Water birder native to the swamps of Payalwa.

Myriopas - Huge winged insects.