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Sumil Kai
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A jewel of the archipelago, Sumil Kai lies like a delicate green flower in the waters of the Jade Sea. Its extremely irregular coastline is surrounded on most sides by extensive coral heads and reefs. The warm weather, crystal white sands, and protected waters make for excellent swimming and fishing.

The sole safe landing point for ships is the southern cape city of Tilesia, populated by a few exile and trader megi, the great ape people of the island, along with various humans, aoru, and others who have chosen to make their home in its tropical squalor.

Great mangrove and peat swamps and lush rainforests filled with towering tropical hardwoods choke the coastal lowlands. Further inland, plateaus and limestone cliffs rise, topped by great volcanoes, active and inactive, from the towering height of Kalawati and the Three Sisters to the beloved shapes of Balangetang and Maraya. The great megi cities of Balang Kang, Ulara Kang, and New Kalara are located in the defensible highlands.

Sumil Kai is home to an incredible diversity of flora and fauna. Colorful butterflies, disease-carrying mosquitoes, tiny wood buffalo, angry rhinoceroses, snarling tigers and shy pangolins are just a few of the many creatures that live amongst the tropical woods, lush ferns, and enormous flowers.

The greatest danger of the island is not the still-active volcanoes, the yearly monsoons, the occasional tidal waves, droughts, and floods. Nor is it the great tigers that prowl the jungle, preying on the buffalo, deer, and wild swine. What the uninitiated visitor should fear most are the diminutive Sumil, who jealously guard their territory from intruders, and expertly hunt four-legged creatures by day and two-legged creatures by night.

The shores of the vast inland Repa Sea are home to two abandoned megi cities, Ambala Kang and Sambar Kang. The jungle, and the various wild creatures that inhabit it, have taken over.
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