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The island is about 300 miles across east-west, and around 350 miles north-south. Mostly mild in climate, the hillsides and large mountain areas get rather chilly at night.

There is a huge reef around the entire island, including many tidal flats where fish - both beautiful and deadly - abound. What kinds are edible? Don't know.

The island is otherwise uninhabited, there is no competitive life form here. Most of the animal life is small, arboreal. Two kinds of major predators live here, one feline and another canine, both bigger than a human sized person would want to tangle with. The feline is close to a tiger in appearance, but with six limbs and two tails, massive claws, and sabertooth like fangs. It stands around 4 feet high at the shoulder, making them usually around 15 or 16 feet long plus the tails. The canine is a little smaller lengthwise but is at least as heavy - built like a dire-wolf, and traveling in pairs or small packs, they have heavy fur and broad bodies. A large pack of these animals might be able to take down a sleeping or unaware dragon. BE WARNED!

The small prey animals on the island are mostly of the springy squirrel or feline type. Several of these creatures live high in the treetops, and are extremely hard to see. Many small hooved animals live on the flatlands and near the central swampy lake. They are no taller than 4 feet tall at the shoulder, most half that, and most live in small family groups, scattering when noise comes near. Hunting them will prove challenging.

There are many birds, small and colorful, with only two species notably big enough to want to catch for food. One is a pheasant-like ground dweller living in dark hillside woods, the other is a more parroty and colorful short-winged tree dweller with a fat body and a loud call.

Bugs are everywhere. The swamp lands in particular, breeding mosquitoes by the billion. Anyone choosing to camp there will lose about a gallon of blood a night...

Land

The land is soft, and very fertile. However, the rainfall is not quite enough to make this a rainforest, at least in most areas. The three northern lakes (two small ones and one large bisected one) are fresh water and supplied by the mountain to the north west. The two vertical finger-like lakes toward the south area however are brackish swamp land and are definitely not a good place to drink from! The eastern lakes are salty, though clean enough to distill fresh water out of.

Most of the land that is 'green' in shade is actually grassland and low shrubland. Trees of all types, mostly squat and windblown, dominate those areas. Lands colored in 'tan' are more heavily wooded, with solid evergreen trees and typical 'forest' trees. 'Brown' colored lands and above are almost exclusively evergreen and designed for mountain life.

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