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The Ekara Islands
Updated: Feb. 18, 11:31 p.m.
NOTE: This island is NOT a canonical part of the DINO-PIRATES OF NINJA ISLAND setting. That means it doesn't show up on the main page of the setting. But it DOES show up in searches and in the "Assigned-To" lists for components. If you think this island SHOULD be canonical, please contact the setting administrators and maybe they'll agree with you.
Summary
A group of coral atolls and low-lying volcanic islands, palm-tree-covered and white-beach-surrounded, looking much like paradise, but in actual fact host to an array of deadly and poisonous animals and plants.
The Ekara Isles is an island kingdom that consists of a tight cluster of 10 islands, 4 large and 6 small. The Main City on Ekara Eti (the largest island) is for its beauty, food and hospitable islanders. The Ekarans have a community style of living, their youth attending boarding “academies”, with each academy connected to a small community. The community and the academies support each other until the youth are ready for their next phase of education, apprenticeships.
Because of the climate of Ekara, volcanic activity and location – its chief exports are rare and exotic plants and blooms that can be processed into dyes, paint and enamel, ink, medicines, poisons and drugs. With these commodities Ekara has recently become very wealthy indeed.
Wealth attracts jealous interest, and a number of powers, Imperial, pirate and native have all begun to consider the project of seizing control of these peaceful-seeming islands. But the truth is that their waters are treacherous — the largest island cannot be reached by deep-water shipping, and passage amidst the inner isles is dangerous even with a guide. Reefs and fearsome sea beasts lurk in every channel. The islands themselves offer little respite, for those exotic plants and blooms that provide so much wealth are for the most part deadly poisonous, and fill jungles that are home to savage beasts.
These beautiful islands are practically deathtraps for anyone who does not know their way around, and the natives are not known for sharing their knowledge. So far, the Ekara Islands have remained independent.
