Description+Chacteristics:

Jungle Hunters have dark green or brown scales matching their environment. To further resemble their environment they will often paint said scales making them nearly undetectable while standing still.

To help maneuver in the dense Northern Jungle environment and avoid danger Jungle Hunters have a number of adaptations. First is their smaller wings which while not being as efficient for flight are able to better maneuver in the dense environment of the northern jungle where flight is highly needed as the forest floor is covered in carnivorous plants which can pose a danger to even adult drekmurians. Their second ability to help with maneuvering in the Jungle is their prehensile tail. This allows them to quickly make turns while flying by grabbing onto a branch or tree and swinging around. Both of these when paired with their naturally strong legs make them experts at out maneuvering the dangerous life in the northern jungle.

A commonly used ability Jungle Hunters possess is that of spitting a highly corrosive acid. They are able to spit this acid up to ten meters and while highly effective the long time it takes to recharge makes it a weapon of last resort. But when used there is little outside of modern alloys which can resist it.

One of the frequently overlooked abilities of Jungle Hunters is their very strong color vision. This serves them in three ways to help sort dangerous from non dangerous food, spot hostile plants/animals and better create camouflage.

Preferred Range:

The majority of Jungle Hunters live in the northern jungle though a few which have tired of the constant fight for survival have migrated to the southern jungle.

Culture:

For Jungle Hunters every day is a fight for survival with little if any rest. This has hardened them into a species focused on strength and mutual support. Each individual has their role and if any one role didn’t function the whole community might die. Guards constantly fortify, rebuild and defend the exterior barrier of the village. Gathers hunt prey or gather plants needing to know and accurately identify the handful of relatively safe foods out of hundreds of lookalikes. Cooks need to know the precise way to prepare those foods in order to render them edible. Crafters need to constantly turn out new tools to replace what breaks or is abandoned in order to escape. And all of this needs to be coordinated by a leader with nearly prophetic levels of foresight. But despite this they seem happy, they are proud of being able to survive in spite of the Jungles every attempt to wipe them out. They seem to even revel in it and grow from it.

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Within their walled villages every member knows every other member with the loss of any being a loss to all. Everything they work for, everything they do is for that community and they either strive together or fall together. Very occasionally when the village starts getting too large they will split with a portion of the village going off to form their own village.

Jungle Hunter villages can take on many different forms from underground fortresses to domes built on the forest floor. But they all share one trait in common, they all must have a means for preventing the jungle from leaking in.

Jungle Hunters admire Jungle Leapers, not because of their strength, they have little, but because of their creativity. Jungle Hunters have no time to create what Jungle Leapers do, they have to focus on the art of staying alive. So they admire what they do and how far they can strive. But usually they don’t go, after all they are needed here and they are doing what no one else could ever do.

Anomalies:

One in every hundred Jungle Hunters will have the power to control the jungle and receive the title of Jungle Taimer. By nature they will be in tune with the life around them being able to feel and sense every living thing as if it was a part of themselves. And like it was a part of their own self they can control it, it is a terrifying thing to witness or so I have been told. The only thing these individuals can not control is the people around them. As such they often will live and stay in their home villages serving to keep any of the northern jungles horrors at bay.

Notes:

Once I started learning about Jungle Hunters I was shocked by just how similar they were to Jungle Leapers. And when I asked about it I was told that they were essentially the same species. Shortly after the beginning of the world the two species had a disagreement on what to do about the then unified Jungle. The Hunters wanted the challenge of survival and liked how it brought them together. The Leapers wanted to focus on other things besides survival like arts or innovation so the two split off. The Leapers reshaped the southern jungle into a paradise while the northern jungle was allowed to remain as dangerous as ever. Sense than the two jungles have remained distinct and the species started to somewhat diverge.

Unsurprisingly no Jungle Hunters wanted to join us on the ship, which while disappointing is to be expected.

They, unlike the Jungle Leapers, did turn down the offer of more advanced technologies. As in their words, they would like to survive based on their own merits rather than because of outside help. Which is their right to do.