LIFE IN THE FAIRY KINGDOM
Earth wildlife programmes are admired though mainly for the contents rather than the humans producing or presenting them. FNN has yet to do a similar programme but when your average creatures include dragons, getting close up and in depth films on these is only for the very brave, which is one thing Roherum admits he is not! Also there is a quiet debate as to whether orcs and trolls should be studied as many in the Kingdom would argue argue they were wildlife too. Naturally this is a quiet debate as nobody wants to kick start the riots of yesteryear again. Underwater wildlife programmes are especially admired though the Kingdom despairs of what humanity has done to its seas.
Trees are considered incredibly important in the Kingdom, partly because so many of them are used for transport and their role in providing oxygen is appreciated more here than it is on Earth. Timber is used in building materials but only from select, non-transport trees, which are harvested in a sustainable way. Trees thrive well in a good magical environment, they wither, even burn away in a bad one. While there are barren areas made that way thanks to magical fighting, most places do have trees and even the sprites don’t damage them. (They damage other plants, buildings and so on but give the trees a wide berth, sprites have been known to use the transporter type as getaway vehicles).
Villagers living near rivers go in for fishing, swimming and boating much as we do though they face fiercer fish (the kind that make pike look timid) and swimming has to be done very quickly (because of said fierce fish, they won’t eat people, they just resent sharing their special space and say so at length. Would you fancy being nagged at by a trout with attitude? Well neither do most folk in the Kingdom!). As for boating, the fish resent that too but there’s not a lot they can do about solid, magical wood! These fish aren’t eaten - nobody can ever catch them and they’re impervious to spells. The less fortunate fish, the smaller varieties, do form a major part of the Kingdom’s diet. There are fish eating birds of prey (though they too leave the nagging big fish be) which tend to take after our osprey in appearance but at ten times the size. They cast a massive shadow whenever they turn up and most magical beings stay out of their way, just to play safe. Understanding nature, in this case the birds really do just want to eat the fish, is not a big thing here.
Certain species cross dimensions. The Kingdom, for example, has bees similar to those on Earth and that carry out the same roles. The one difference is bees don’t sting if they die here. Their sting inflicts a mild curse on their victim. If they sting a humanoid figure, the sting results in an attack of boils for a few hours. There is no remedy, these aren’t ordinary boils, they come up purple and green and magic used on them to remove them only makes them get bigger. Leave them alone and the boils go away on their own. Bees vary in size to match the varying sizes of the flowers they pollinate. The Queen’s giant flower garden attracts the largest species of bee, being two feet long from tip to tail. There are no wasps in the Kingdom, mainly because nobody can see the point of them. They like their “ordinary” creatures to be useful. They see it as offsetting the fire breathing dragons to a certain extent. It’s nice to know you have wildlife that won’t kill!
Trees are considered incredibly important in the Kingdom, partly because so many of them are used for transport and their role in providing oxygen is appreciated more here than it is on Earth. Timber is used in building materials but only from select, non-transport trees, which are harvested in a sustainable way. Trees thrive well in a good magical environment, they wither, even burn away in a bad one. While there are barren areas made that way thanks to magical fighting, most places do have trees and even the sprites don’t damage them. (They damage other plants, buildings and so on but give the trees a wide berth, sprites have been known to use the transporter type as getaway vehicles).
Villagers living near rivers go in for fishing, swimming and boating much as we do though they face fiercer fish (the kind that make pike look timid) and swimming has to be done very quickly (because of said fierce fish, they won’t eat people, they just resent sharing their special space and say so at length. Would you fancy being nagged at by a trout with attitude? Well neither do most folk in the Kingdom!). As for boating, the fish resent that too but there’s not a lot they can do about solid, magical wood! These fish aren’t eaten - nobody can ever catch them and they’re impervious to spells. The less fortunate fish, the smaller varieties, do form a major part of the Kingdom’s diet. There are fish eating birds of prey (though they too leave the nagging big fish be) which tend to take after our osprey in appearance but at ten times the size. They cast a massive shadow whenever they turn up and most magical beings stay out of their way, just to play safe. Understanding nature, in this case the birds really do just want to eat the fish, is not a big thing here.
Certain species cross dimensions. The Kingdom, for example, has bees similar to those on Earth and that carry out the same roles. The one difference is bees don’t sting if they die here. Their sting inflicts a mild curse on their victim. If they sting a humanoid figure, the sting results in an attack of boils for a few hours. There is no remedy, these aren’t ordinary boils, they come up purple and green and magic used on them to remove them only makes them get bigger. Leave them alone and the boils go away on their own. Bees vary in size to match the varying sizes of the flowers they pollinate. The Queen’s giant flower garden attracts the largest species of bee, being two feet long from tip to tail. There are no wasps in the Kingdom, mainly because nobody can see the point of them. They like their “ordinary” creatures to be useful. They see it as offsetting the fire breathing dragons to a certain extent. It’s nice to know you have wildlife that won’t kill!