Editing Primordial Evolution Game/South Continent (section)

=Fungi and Flora=

==Cave Raga Evolution==
[[Image:Caveragachart.png|thumb|center|Cave Raga Evolution]]

==Cedya Evolution==
[[Image:Cedyachart.png|thumb|center|Cedya Evolution]]

==Fren Evolution==
[[Image:Frenchart.png|thumb|center|Fren Evolution]]

==Hexis Evolution==
[[Image:Hexischart.png|thumb|center|Hexis Evolution]]

====Squat Hexis====
[[Image:squathexis.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Squat Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Hexis
<br />-> Methuselah Hexis
<br />-> Shrub Hexis]]
These bushes grow in clearings in the forests, quickly spreading through them. It's common for insects to bore into these plants. Remarkably, this doesn't seem to bother the bush.

====Methuselah Hexis====
[[Image:methuselahhexis.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Methuselah Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Squat Hexis]]
The Methuselah Hexis an especially durable plant which grows dry, rocky soil, and thin air of the high mountains. The shrub takes over a century to reach maturity. Upon reaching maturity, the Hexis produces a slow, but steady supply of asexual spores.
As they often live for several millennia, a lot can happen to these large shrubs. The occasional landslide, fire, or even herbivore can cause a lot of damage to the plant. These hexises are excellent at storing energy for these events. While young and/or undisturbed, they have the typical helical form of the Hexis family. The older, battered plants appear more like a tangle of split, snapped, and possibly even scorched branches that recovered from the centuries of abuse they undergo. They store enough energy to spend the next few decades regrowing their branches if they are by chance all lost.
Even though they grow slightly faster in lower altitudes, they aren't commonly found there. The more frequent presence of fauna keeps them from truly taking hold.

====Shrub Hexis====
[[Image:shrubhexis.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Shrub Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Squat Hexis
<br />-> Gildenthread Bush]]
The Shrub Hexis was a gnarly shrub that grew in the dry savannas of South Continent.

====Gildenthread Bush====
[[Image:gildenthread.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Gildenthread Bush'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Shrub Hexis]]
The Gildenthread Bush produces spores which are covered in soft, silvery fluff. This fluff easily picks up in the wind and rips the spore out of it's base on the plant, sending it wherever the air current takes it. The thread is often silver in coloration, but in ideal conditions when the plant has plentiful sunlight, water, and minerals, the thread takes a brilliant golden sheen as it's laced with nutrients to help jump-start the spore within.
The spore itself is fire resistant, the fluff covering providing useful food for the spore if it's set aflame during a fire. The golden variety of the spore is mildly fragrant, slightly sweet and catching to the eye, making it an attractive target for a grazing herbivore.

This cotton-like plant is also utilized by the Korobushka people. They use it to make rope and thread.






====Vine Hexis====
[[Image:Vhexis.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Vine Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Shrub Hexis]]
The Vine Hexis is a parasitic plant. Although it has a woody stem, it is too narrow and flimsy to hold itself up. In order to reach upward towards sunlight, it will climb up the trunks of Hexis Trees, Tree Siwari, and even ledges or Lacorra shells. To keep it's grip on surfaces, it grows wrapping around the object. This is aided by the vine's sturdy, hook-shaped leaves.

If growing along a tree, the Vine Hexis will leech nutrients from its host, slowly killing it.

====Helix Hexis====
[[Image:helixhexis.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Helix Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Hexis
<br />-> Greater Hexis
<br />-> Broadleaf Hexis
<br />-> Pool Hexis]]
The Helix Hexis was a tree that towered above all other plants when they were around.










====Great Hexis====
[[Image:greathexis.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Greater Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Helix Hexis]]
The Great Hexis is the largest of all Hexis species. Compared to the Helix Hexis, they are 30-40% taller on average at their full height, putting them at around the height of Earth's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_White_Pine pinus strobus]. They make up the majority of trees deep in the jungle.


====Broadleaf Hexis====
[[Image:broadleafhexis.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Broadleaf Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Helix Hexis]]
This species of Hexis is known for it's large leaves, which grow to about a meter in length. They grow in the rainforests to the north of the continent.















====Pool Hexis====
[[Image:poolhexis.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Pool Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Helix Hexis
<br />-> Oasis Tree
<br />-> Whipping Hexis]]
Some species of Hexis in the drier plains had pools of water laced with naturally produced glucose at their bases. Lining the edge of the water with their spores, the Hexis used these watering holes as a constant source of pollinators; everything from insects to animals would come from far and wide to get a drink.

The requirements to sustain this were taxing however, and because of this, the tree's roots had to grow further into the ground, tapping into the vast aquifers of the plains.

====Oasis Tree====
[[Image:oasistree.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Oasis Tree'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Pool Hexis]]
As a result of the plains becoming drier, the Pool Hexises became what is now known as the Oasis Tree. The Oasis Tree is a small tree adapted to conserving its water supply. The pools between their twisting trunks are smaller than what the Pool Hexis had, but are also more concentrated. Their waxy leaves aid in preventing loss of moisture.
Massive, intricate system of roots support each plant with water and mineral absorption from the expansive underground aquifers of the South Continent. Vast stretches of the plains could be covered by an astonishingly small number of Oasis Trees.
A covering over the pool forces animals to stick their heads in to drink, which effectively covers them in the plant's spores. Aided by the production of caffeine, animals get addicted to their nectar. This ensures that there are always creatures to spread their spores.




====Whipping Hexis====
[[Image:whippinghexis.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Whipping Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Pool Hexis
<br />-> Coiling Hexis
<br />-> Shambler]]
The Whipping Hexis was a tree with more developed muscular tissues than most plants on Borgas IV. They were a species of carnivorous trees which lured in prey with a sweet scent similar to that of Oasis Trees. Root tips blending in with surrounding grasses would detect nearby animals, which the Hexis would then pummel into submission and stuff into its digestion cavity.

====Coiling Hexis====
[[Image:coilinghexis.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Coiling Hexis'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Whipping Hexis]]
To conserve moisture during the midday sun, or when it's leaves are damaged, the aptly named Coiling Hexis tightens its trunks together, becoming a tight knot. During the cooler hours, it spreads back out again to get the maximum surface area to photosynthesize. At the base of each of the tree's leaves are pores, which are used to take in any morning dew collected.










====Hexis Shambler====
[[Image:shambler.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Hexis Shambler'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Hexis Shambler
<br />-> Nimble Shambler
<br />-> Bare Shambler
<br />-> Ravenous Shambler]]
The Hexis Shambler (just Shambler for short) is a predatory tree. They hunt by tracking prey with a combination of smell, feeling vibrations in the ground, and infrared-sensitive eye spots. Despite appearances, these creatures are quite nimble. When they find their victims, they dash up and crush them with their powerful limbs. Newly grown shamblers appeared as a normal hexis, but they'd eventually outgrow their roots and take up their predatory lifestyle. While mostly found on the plains, they have taken to living in the jungles, using the surroundings as camouflage.

====Bare Shambler====
[[Image:bshambler.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Bare Shambler'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Extinct'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Hexis Shambler
<br />-> Puppeteer Shambler
<br />-> Lub Shambler]]
The Bare Shambler was a smaller species of predatory plant. After their uprooting, the leaves of this plant would wilt and fall off. This made them more efficient at retaining fluids. The tip of each limb terminated in a sharp spike and a gripping branch. What set this species apart from other shamblers most of all was that they would wrap around a still-living creature and live off of it as a parasite.


====Puppeteer Shambler====
[[Image:pshambler.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Puppeteer Shambler'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Bare Shambler]]
The namesake of the Puppeteer Shambler comes from their habit of using their dead hosts as puppets. After these parasites kill their hosts, they control the body by wrapping around its legs and making it appear as if it was still walking around. Upon finding a new host, they ditch the corpse and spring onto a fresh victim.

====Lub Shambler====
[[Image:Lshambler.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Lub Shambler'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Bare Shambler]]
Found in the rivers and swamps of the continent, beneath the lub canopy, the Lub Shambler has a specialized method of hunting. They allow their mouths to fill with water and remain perfectly still, just waiting for something to wander into the small pool which they create, often times being lubs re-anchoring themselves. When they have a catch, the shambler immediately snaps down on its unfortunate victim.

====Ravenous Shambler====
[[Image:Rshambler.png|thumb|upright|left|top|100px|
<br />'''Ravenous Shambler'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Hexis Shambler
<br />-> Inverted Shambler]]
The Ravenous Shambler is the most powerful hunter in the history of the shambler genus. The limbs of this species are tipped with highly sensitive feelers and scent receptors. While remaining absolutely still, they can get an accurate estimate of where nearby creatures are located. Around their mouths, they have tendrils which aid in restraining prey while being eaten alive.
The Ravenous Shambler is most often found in forests where they use their surroundings to ambush prey, but can occasionally be found in the open plains.

====Inverted Shambler====
[[Image:Ishambler.png|thumb|upright|right|top|100px|
<br />'''Inverted Shambler'''
<br />Status: <span style="color:#008000">'''Extant'''</span>
<br />progenitor: Ravenous Shambler]]
Among Shamblers, the Inverted Shambler is an oddity. It earns its name from when being compared to all other species of the genus, this one's usual position would be upside down. It also differs in the fact that it is primarily an herbivore. Using the tendrils around its mouth, the Inverted Shambler rips up foliage to eat. However, it isn't unheard of for them to occasionally scavenge.

==Siwari Evolution==
[[Image:Siwarichart.png|thumb|center|Siwari Evolution]]

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