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Po’e Rava was once a bustling native island, with two significant cities, a king who'se influence spread throughout the surrounding waters, and a paradisaical tropical garden for its native ecology.
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That all changed 112 years ago. A meteor fell from the sky, smashing directly into the major inactive volcanic peak. The vegetation was devastated, and the human and animal life was pushed to the very edge of survival. The peak itself was knocked back, and then what little was left collapsed even further, and partially flooded. Now, the island resembles a low ring of beaches and cliffs that surrounds a flooded saltwater swamp. Life has returned to Po’e Rava, but it has become feral, fierce, cannibalistic and mutated. The island is extraordinarily dangerous for those who don’t remain extremely wary at all moments.
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Despite that, it has a steady stream of visitors. An old pirate captain is said to have hidden his treasure on the island before the meteor fell, and many have gone searching for it since. In addition, the temple of Rangi-Ku, the god worshiped on the island before the meteor fell, is supposedly—-miraculously—-still intact in the swamps, and what secrets it holds are the subject of all kinds of wild myths, legends and folklore.
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A small town, Po’e Rava port, has even been established in a sheltered natural harbor, with a cosmopolitan base of exiled Imperials, pirates, ninjas, islanders and more making up the motley population. The town is heavily walled against the interior, though, and occasionally has been attacked by abnormally cunning and fierce mutated hunting beasts, and the ghoulish cannibalistic descendants of the original natives, who still make their hidden homes deep in the mangrove swamps that make up the interior of the collapsed island.
