Editing Magical Realm Cyoa/Megalodonia (section)

==Landscape and Biomes==

===Overview===

Megalodonia is a Pangaea of epic proportions that stretches the width and breadth of a Jupiter sized planet surrounded on all sides by four vast oceans equated to the four main directions of the Compass. It mirrors Earth in many ways, there is one sun, one moon called Lobos, four seasons and there is 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. A massive mountain range spans across the entire Pangaea like an arching spine, crowning the 50 km tall Mount Megalodon at its center. The gravity on Meglodonia is 2.5 times greater than that of Earth.

===Nitrogen Tundra===

The northern fringe of the Pangaea is covered in mercilessly harsh tundra broken by vast liquid nitrogen lakes and snaking river veins, temperatures here can plummet close to -150 degrees Celsius. 

Many different species of eldritch liquid nitrogen life forms live in this biome able to flash freeze its victims in burning dry ice to desiccant brittle corpses instantly. 

Enormous cracks scar the tundra landscape leaking inky black morass fog.  At the deepest point of these crevices it is said that temperatures drop to absolute zero, and at these depths terrible entropy eating shadow creatures roam; these are all but dark rumors used to scare children. 

Historically, the lowest point reached by any Megalodonian had temperatures register at -250 degrees Celsius, the Muscle Wizard grand master who attempted this expedition dropped dead from severe frost bite and hypothermia at the doorstep of his home city, just as he returned from his journey.

He had tied his entire expedition team on tandem sleds and dragged their corpses through many hundreds of thousand kilometers of horrendous wilderness so his body and the bodies of his comrades can receive proper burials at the footsteps of Mount Megalodon. What little we know of the expedition was etched into the Muscle Wizard's own flesh, as their research documents and journeys are all frozen brittle and crumbled to icicle dust.

===Boreal Carnivorous Forests and Tentacle Lakes===

Further south of the Frozen nitrogen tundra, we begin to approach boreal forests teeming with carnivorous conifers and fresh water lakes connected by subterranean rivers. 

Woolly Shoggoths stalk these forests; their pseudopod appendages snatched and gobbled up morsel by bloody morsel in the thousand jawed branches and razor sharp pines of lumbering carnivorous trees in their mindless pursuit of smaller prey. 

Fresh water world gorging kraken reside in the lakes, their poisonously barbed tentacles stretch many miles through the networks of subterranean rivers, snatching any fish or beast that try to quench their thirst in one of their unsuspecting waterholes. 

Howling banshee wolves prowl these lands in large packs numbering in the hundreds, the collective power of their howls can level city blocks flat and violently reverberate any poor soul into flesh paste at point blank range. 

Swift Pyro Antler Caribou roam the boreal forests in protective herds always alert and on the move, aggressively ramming their thermite tipped antlers into anything they perceive to be threats, this allow a few of the adult, lame or old members of the herd to sacrifice their lives in a pyrophoric blaze of glory, allowing the rest of the herd to breakthrough encroachments made by carnivorous conifer trees seeking an easy meal, all-consuming woolly shoggoths or survive Howling banshee wolf ambushes.

===Temperate Shoggoth Forests, Spine Savannas and Shrapnel Shrub land===

As we approach south of the Boreal forest, we reach temperate coniferous forest, wild savannas and shrub land. 

These lands are the most tranquil and most inhabited by Megalodonians. A wide variety of smaller and tamer species of shoggoths roam the temperate forests, many domesticated as pets and livestock. 

Rodents thrive in great abundance, monomolecular razor teethed rabbits and beavers live in large warrens and in dammed river ways, their presence is extremely hazardous to major city infrastructure, gnawing through alchemically enchanted, reinforced concrete and carbon nanotube meshed rebar in minutes. Hive rats scour the sewers and dark places protecting their primal and savage psionic rat king hosts with their own bodies. 

The diamond barked oaks and strangling tangle cord willow trees, shrapnel wire shrubs, spine grain wheat fields, creeping shamrock claymore lichen and land mine moss and herds of rampaging tarrasques are all too common sights, as well as parasitic crab grass and flowering thorn thistles growing everywhere and on everything, sometimes on unsuspecting Megalodonians, their roots drilling so deeply into flesh they choke arteries and rupture organs. 

Many ruins and labyrinths of Megalodonia's forgotten past dot the temperate landscape as well as dark malicious hot zones; dangerous regions where the malicious influence of the cosmic horror taints deeper than all the rest.

===Phoenix Jungles and Napalm Badlands===

As we venture even farther south of the temperate biome, we arrive in the tropical phoenix jungles and snaking napalm badlands that exist in scattered microcosms across all of Megalodonia. 

Explosive thermite flora, metastablized hydrogen metal coated prey and predators as well as plasma fuel rod insects and bugs thrive in the greatest abundance, and every so often flash fires known as great bombardments scorch the entire biome. 

Thermite seeds of dynamite trees ignite, and the coats of the many beasts combust with great thunderous fury, signaling destruction and the beginning of new life. New dynamite saplings sprout from the ashes and charred remains of victims with no flame retardant protection or were too slow to escape or hide from the raging explosions. Fertile mothers shed and combust their hydrogen metal hides, furs and scales to signal the start of mating season and to burrow and bare many children. 

This is also the biome of disease, terrible insect carriers and plagues. The carriers and causers of contagions mutate and evolve newer and deadlier strains every couple of months. 

Station posts of medical expedition detachments can be found nestled in the canopies, skilled doctors and their nurses and apprentices busy themselves analyzing and studying the myriad number of diseases that continue to kill Megalodonians in the most excruciating painful of ways, elucidating cures and ailments whenever possible.

===Azure Flame and Alabaster Deserts===

At the southernmost point of the Pangaea lies the endless alabaster desert, caked in white salt and burning limestone sands of azure flame from burning oil wells and seeping deposits of asphalt and natural gases. 

Temperatures reach 100 degree Celsius on the surface, boiling away any moisture to vapor. What life that remains, reside here living deep underground in networks of convoluted subterranean tunnels carved out by the acid of massive bulimic sand wurms seeking the juicy meat of plasma bombardier beetles, bioluminescent cave shoggoths, plasma pot ants suckling on the oil wells, gases and tar pits and also on phosphorous alkaloid tuber roots. 

Great glass and molten slag cathedral mounds of white phosphorous welder termites also dot the landscape, gathering the white salts and sands and melting them to slag to expand their colonies. 

These termites collect the pollen and floating seeds of drifting methane gas palm trees, the webbed and methane filled ballooning leaves allow these trees to glide and float on the rising hot air and wind currents, their spindly porous trunks hungrily absorb the condensing water vapor and the dangling umbrella like root systems extends hundreds of feet down to the sand and salt, anchored by termite cathedral mounds. 

The welder termites cultivate and grow methane palm saplings to feed their Brain infesting fungal groves to nourish their growing colonies as well as to act as a defense mechanism against intruders. 

Vicious flesh eating and necrotic bacteria exist in these lands, decomposing dead sand wurms, insects, flora and shoggoths to oil, tar, and natural gasses as soon as they die; continuing the circle of life.

===Coastline and Oceans===

Finally, the coasts and shores of the Pangaea are accented in jagged tooth like rocks and steep spiraling cliffs, blistering supercavitating barnacles and carbon filament coral. 

Many great flying horrors can be found along the shoreline, the dagger headed and blade winged sea striders and gaping maw dragons fly in large flocks. More teeth and maws then body or head, they swoop down skimming the waters and dark abyss with their jaws wide open, pulling up to gorge on their catch. 

Inferno mantis shrimp and blade spine ramjet nautili can be found lazily floating along the shallow ocean floor, when disturbed the inferno mantis spays its vicinity with a magnesium ink and instantaneously swing their claws with such force and acceleration, the waters ignite in fiery infernos of burning magnesium and cavitation that burn as hot as a star's core. 

The ramjet nautili ram themselves at their prey or would-be predators at excess of Mach 5 riding in supercavitating vacuum bubbles cutting their prey and predators sometimes in half on their carbon filament razor edged shells. 

Different species of amphibious ramjet nautili can take up sand and small stones in its hyponome ramjet organs and expel streams of high pressure water that can cut through the strongest of steel and hardest of armor a kilometer away. 

Extremely monstrous creatures can be found in the deeper parts of the four oceans of Megalodonia, from the leviathan vacuum whales, massive kilometer sized beasts that sit at the lowest point of the ocean creating gigantic whirlpools and underwater slip stream vacuums trapping and devouring any creature caught in its rippling siphon to sate its hunger. 

To the seawater world gorging krakens that can grow many magnitudes larger than their fresh water cousins, not to mention the swarms of ravenous turbine sharks with mouths full of jagged dagger-like teeth that spin and grind in rapid succession and seawater bonesplitter piranhas that can chew and digest through any material, leaving a not trace of their victims.