Archive:Barium

Barium

Barium is a small celestial body located in the Sol System, it is one of the smallest objects in the System only being a hundredth the size of Alathra, With only two continents, Barium is largely by various intelligent plants and fungi.

Barium from Alathra (Center pale green dot)

Geography

Shunaria

In the beginning of Barium only had one land mass known as Shunaria, Shunaria had three major rivers, the river banks are where life on Shunaria first appeared. Shunaria also had two mountain ranges, the western mountain range is where the Shroomies first migrated too, and where intelligent life on Barium started.

Continent of Shunaria (Barium pre Great Split)

Mushun

After the Great Split Mushun was established as the southern continent of Barium which is largely populated by Mushlings, because of the Mushlings extensive use of magic many things on Mushun have been permanently altered. One of the most recognizable areas on Mushun is Glowing peak, which is a piece of the Alathra moon that crashed into Barium after Megadalon blew up the moon, but now it is recognized as the largest mountain on Barium.

Fungaria

Post the Great Split the northern continent was named Fungaria, Fungaria is ruled by the Funglings, even after the Great Split the geography of Fungaria stayed largely the same, but the continent became signifigantly colder forcing the Funglings to create underground society's.

File:Fungaria and Mushun (Barium post Great Split)

Islands

Barium has many different Islands with many different species, climates and cultures.

History of Barium

The beginning

For the first few centuries on Barium the only life that existed was non sentient plant life and fungal life, similar to the plant life on Alathra.

The River Banks

As life on Barium started to emerge the first sentient life emerged at the western river, they were called Shroomies, Shroomies were simple creatures who would travel in groups of 20 - 30, they possessed the ability to connect their Mycelium network to the roots of other plants to steal nutrients, they could also connect it to other Shroomies to use privative communication.

Evolution

As Shroomies became more and more prominent on Barium many other plants began developing defense mechanisms to protect against the Shroomies stealing nutrients, One of the most note able plants was the PurDralia which was just a normal flower until it evolved into the Purpur Snapper, when Shroomies would try to steal nutrients from them the Purpur Snapper would open its mouth filled with razor sharp petals and strike the Shroomies.

Intelligent life

Now that many of the plants and even fungi developed defenses against the Shroomies, they decided to retreat to the mountains north of the west river, once they had made it to the mountains they discovered that it was a much harder plants to deal with and a much harder climate, due to these horrible conditions it caused the Shroomies to use traps and tools causing them to become smarter.

Stone age

After many years of living in the harsh climate of the mountains, the Shroomies developed the ability to use their mycelium roots as appendages, to create and use tools, some colonies of Shroomies began to develop agriculture, growing many fruits and veggies

Bronze Age

During this age the Shroomies developed basic speech along with retaining the ability to communicate through their mycelium root network, many Shroomies began developing a tribe like hierarchy, many different tribes popped up in the mountains. But Shroomies weren't the only creatures to gain intelligence on Barium, DeepOaks are very large creatures that resemble trees, but have many humanoid features like eyes and the ability to form their roots into insect like appendages to travel, in many aspects DeepOaks were more intelligent than Shroomies.

Iron Age

This age signified the beginning of civilization on Barium, after many years Shroomies began to migrate out of the mountains and settle down in small tribes all across Barium. As time passes and more plants begin to adapt to Barium, and so do the Shroomies, they begin to take on a more humanoid look, This new species became known as Shroomians.

Golden Age

Forest Conflict

After Shroomies go extinct due to them evolving into Shroomians, many take on a tribal life style, farming and hunting the other plant creatures to get food, Other Shroomians adapt a nomadic life style, one of these nomad tribes known as the Floran settle down in a forest located in NorthEast Shunaria. Unbeknownst to the Floran there was already a tribe of Shroomians in the forest they settled in called the Ledurn tribe, due to resources being scarce In the forest tensions between with Ledurn and Florans we're high. One day a Ledurn child was attacked by the Florans and killed, due to this the Ledurn began an all out war against the Florans, resulting in the Florans losing a d being absorbed into the Ledurn tribe, but due to the Ledurns growing fearful of other tribes they would begin to expand southward.

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