Avatel-Ran

Avatel-Ran is the homeworld of the harpies.

History

Avatel-Ran is a small, lush world orbiting its home star of Avatel-Lu. While at first, Ran may seem like an ordinary jungle world, the abundance of ferrous metals that formed it, as well as its naturally dense atmosphere, create the perfect conditions for content spanning subterranean electrical storms. These electrical maelstroms provide unique conditions, mainly an abundance of nitrogen availability in the soil, which causes EXTREME biological flourishing, at all levels.

On this world of abundance, life began to compete not for available nutrients, but for space. The jungles of Avatel fully coat the world, and reach kilometers into the sky. So available was food, that predation evolved not as a method of caloric intake, but as a method of culling competitor species.

And to this world, though the nature of time and abundance, rose a new predator. Unlike any other, this creature was unusually violent, possessing an unstoppable drive to hunt to extinction anything that contested the canopies it called its own. Not only this, that species also actively culled the jungles, killing off all but select titans of the jungle, letting them grow into standing monoliths in which to make their nests. Evolution had created the harpy.