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Dholavira is a city found on an island located in the West Blue, known to be another city where a completely different tribe of winged extraterrestrial humanoids, much like Skypieans reside. Called themselves as the Harappan tribe, the Harappan are a much more primitive than Skypieans as they settled upon an island, a jungle with one singular white pillar towering even mountains. Since then, due to it being a significant landmark in traversing through the island, Dholavira is built by the Harappan. Much like most of the Sky Island Residents, the Harappans both are winged and wingless, and they have also develop dials as part of their culture and society.
Outside Dholavira lies a vast mountainous jungle filled with many old ruins and swamp, an ancient Reptilia tribe known as Kroxigor lies towards the northern end of the island, though exactly where is not known but King Izuna believes that there is a large swamp and ruins which is the home of the Reptilia. The Kroxigor tribe ever since the Harappan have made contact with them on the northern jungle, has attacked with great ferocity, using primitive beasts such as dinosaurs, primitive equipment such as bows, spears, swords and even using bone armors. Due to the small number of Harappan living on the island, they are not able to retaliate against the horde of lizardmen. However, for some reasons despite the Kroxigor encroaching upon Dholavira - they never attacked the city no matter what. This creates a sense of reprieve to the Harappan tribe but without the ability to leave the city in search for food, problems will eventually rise as food shortage will soon hit Dholavira.
While King Izuna hopes to get the World Government to help drive the Kroxigors out, but Seer Akane believes that communication between Harappan and Kroxigor tribe is possible, as there seems to be reason for the Reptilia tribe not attacking Dholavira. She believes that the reasons that Reptilia did not attack their city is due to the presence of the large white pillar in the middle of the city, that either the lizardmen are afraid of the white pillar or that they believe the white pillar is place of sanctity. Because of the presence of Byakko, Harappans believe the white pillar is somehow connected to the White Tiger as they worship Byakko as their 'God'. This led to the Seer believing that the Reptilia are similarly religious, thus having human-like intelligence and tries to establish communication in hopes for peace, but so far she have not been able to do so.
Jungle
The jungles are the main environment of the island, with essentially jungles and forests completely covering the island. There are no other forms of civilizations that resides aside from the Harappan and the Kroxigars. The faunas in this island are mostly dinosaurs, ranging to all sorts of them. Smaller faunas such as insects, herbivores like deers exists as well, but the island can be considered a dinosaur kingdom essentially. A fabled species in this islands are Hydras, believed by Harappans to no longer exists in the current age. Some Harappans thought that Hydras used to live in the mountainous regions of the island but till this day Hydras were only spotted by the Harappans ancestors a very long time ago.
Old Northern Ruins
A ruins of unknown origins, believed to be from the civilization that came before the Harappans that eventually disappeared. Some Harappans believed that the ruins are from the Gods that came before them, thus sometimes referring to the ruins as the ‘City of Gods’. Dialsmith Yama believes that the ruins are from another ancient winged tribe like they are, thus perhaps holds secret to an ancient dial blueprint. Ancient Harappans have manage to learn a few things from what they have managed to glean from the ruins, the first is the discovery of the God of War, Skanda as well as Byakko. And the other thing are the existence of ‘Lizardman’. The Northern Ruins is rather large but most of them which is actually an underground system with many access routes in and out of the underground which is believed to be part of the living space of the ancient tribe. Large insects have long since taken over what's left of the ruins.
Northern Swamps
The Northern Swamps is the home of the Kroxigar Reptilia tribe, far north from Dholavira – here the Reptilia tribe builds a large village using the natural defences of nearby mountains and the thick swamp to their advantage. The Kroxigars, similar to the Harappans are rather tribal as well – using ancient weaponry. However, they have used their homes to tame the beast of the lands – mostly dinosaurs and the fabled hydras. The Kroxigars do possessed culture on their own, as they seem to believe Byakko as their revered God. The entrance to their homes, whilst not really a secret – is fairly difficult to find within the swamps, but looking for the effigies the Kroxigar purposefully built for landmarks are the best way to get into the heart of the Reptilia tribes. With the ongoing war between Kroxigar and Harappan, the swamps are more filled with Kroxigars patrolling their homes.
Statue of Skanda
The infamous statue of Skanda is believed to be the home of Byakko, or at least that’s what the Harappans believe so. Ancient Harappan texts believe that Skanda is a God of War, and that Byakko is the personification of Skanda thus why the White Tiger resides in that area. However, for decades Byakko has never been seen again ever since the great grandfather of King Izuna first spotted Byakko on the statue of Skanda. No one knows where Byakko is, or if it still exists. The Kroxigars themselves have never seem to enter the area near the statue as well. Located upon the western end of the island – the current war between the Harappans and Kroxigars have made it impossible to traverse, and even should one risk traversing to find Byakko, it is unlikely that it may appear.
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