Essari Evolution Game/Magnarovic Era
Events Timeline
Magnarovic Start
Life has just beginning to make concerted recovery from the great volcanic event a few million years ago on Essari. The world has emerged into the Magnarovic Era once more as a semi-tropical sanctuary for life to flourish. While animals took some time to recover, plants immediately picked up where they left off, soaking up the sun and absorbing toxics gases from the atmosphere, while simultaneously pumping Oxygen into the atmosphere. In the arctic circles of the Essari, has begun seeing the development of ice floes and the first icebergs, which will gradually develop into the planet's ice caps.
Many recent generations of organisms have experienced a radical changes in their offspring's anatomy. In some aquatic and terrestrial organisms, a notochord has appeared, providing these organisms with a rigidity and a stronger internal bodies. These organisms will soon become the worlds first vertebrates. For aquatic organisms, some have experienced an internal change to their bodies, as the beginnings of a primitive circulatory systems for improved blood flow and/or primitive nephric ducts (protokidneys) that help gather toxins and later excrete them. Finally, in a select few organisms, there has been a recent development of nerve bundles in the cranial region of organisms. These nerve bundles have in recent generations developed into the first brain stem.
All these changes to the world come with the addition of an abundance of exposed resources that are crucial to the further advancement of life. This new era on planet Essari will finally open the floodgates for life to truly get big and complex.
--Planet Statistics--
Atmosphere: 74% Nitrogen, 7% Argon, 13% Oxygen, 2% Carbon Dioxide, 1% Hydrogen Sulfide, 3% Other Gases
Moons: 2
Tidal Forces: Present; Regular
Currents: Present; Earth-like, Warm-Cool
Average Global Temperature: 77°F (25°C)
Tectonics: Active
Volcanic Activity: Below Average
Weather Systems: Globally Subtropical
R1 - Mediterranean/Subtropical
R2 - Wet Temperate
R3 - Wet Tropical
R4 - Varies between Wet and Dry Subtropical
Lands of the Magnarovic Era
Region 1
This particular region is blessed with a mediterranean and tropical climate, that keeps the area humid, but relatively pleasant year round. This region consists of the braffbergs Gemini and Styrax, the landmasses Brouldia, Jobani, Morove, Ralia, and the Shatturne Isles. Brouldia and Jobani share an expansive coral reefs that help to nurture young aqauatic organisms, and provides shelter for most marine organisms. Inland, the fields of bristlegrass and braffious trees stretch across the landmasses. It is here where deposits of Calcium, Magnesium and Iron dot the landscape. Morove is less tropical than the more equatorial landmasses, but is much wetter with a large forest covering half the landmass. Here, life has found the cooler climate to be manageable enough to adapt to. Ralia is a cragged landscape, with only expanses of grasslands throughout the landmass and a kelp forest surrounding its coast. This region's cooler temperatures are accompanied by deposits of salt, copper, and iron ore that jut out from the surface.
Region 2
Region two is home to the largest braffberg colonies, the landmass Sujardin, and the volcanic island known as Denui. These two braffberg colonies have moved southward along the Southern Tropic line, which is considered to be the optimal place for the growth and sustaining the sessile colonies, and the organisms that rely on it. These braffbergs have become so large now that they even have their own localized weather systems. Sujardin is a predominantly temperate climate and is the only landmass that experiences earth-like seasons year-round, including the first instances of snowfall. This region has a mixing of resources deposits including, iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium, and sulfur, and has its own kelp forests and coral reefs that also have deposits of magnesium, iron, and calcium among them. Then there's the island of Denui, an active volcanic island that has only recent become hospitable in its northern region for life. In spite of this only grasses have begun growing on the island because of a mysterious tar-like substance that may potentially be useful to an organism. This tar-like substance is also found in the southern crags of Sujardin.
Region 3
Region 3 is home to Essari's largest landmass now known as Panoram and the northern Nihiloram Islands. This region has a predominantly wet tropical climate that has large swathes of land that have yet to be populated by inland organisms. While Panoram is not abundant with unique resources with only a few deposits of sulfur and calcium, the landmass is fertile and brimming with lush wetlands, forests, and grasslands, as well as multiple rivers and lakes. Likewise, the warm tropical waters around the great landmass is a comfortable home for any organisms big or small. Panoram also features some of the first expanses of mountains, a geographic marker only seen on this continent and the continent of Foltania. In the Northwest, the islands of Nihiloram is the only temperate climate found in Region 3. In spite of this, the wet climate of the region leaves much of the land with vast fields of Bristlegrass, and vibrant kelp forests around the coast.
Region 4
Region 4 has a mix of the wet and dry tropical climate throughout the region, and is home to the continent Foltania, and the Torray Isles. In Foltania, its one defining feature is the beautiful Trifolt Delta, a massive expanse of wetland that stretches across most of western Foltania. This wet climate expands to the forests found near the coasts of Foltania, and a small wetland in the northwestern part of the continent. Torwards the center though, the climate becomes drier due to its young mountain range, leaving Foltania with large swathes of dry plains with hardy grasses that have begun to adapt to the hot climate. In the seas around Foltania, many marine organisms that reside in reefs are fortunate to be protected from the fury of the Essari's oceanborn storms and are able to flourish because of this. On both land and sea, organisms will find deposits of Calcium, Iron, Copper, and Zinc. The Torray Islands are relatively new to terrestrial life, and have predominantly hosted life around its shores that are warmed by hydrothermal vents near the islands, and warm ocean current that passes adjacent to it. It's kelp forests and coral reefs have nurtured life old and new, and are abundant with Calcium, Iron, and Magnesium deposits. On land, the forests that have begun appearing, have unearthed a strange resource that was left untouched for a long time: Crystals. These crystals scattered across the Torray Islands have been recently found to be nurturing the plant life on the island, increasing their overall productivity. Who knows what effect it'll have on an animal.