NationStates Jolt Archive

The rainforests of Umbar held many secrets from the world, the high canopy shielding the view from above and the dense ancient trees added depth to the forest from the ground, people who wandered too far into the forest would get lost without a proper guide and even then there was a limit to how far these nature wise men would go. On the whole, it’s the largest collection of trees in all of Iuthia, a nation expanding well over 10’000’000 sq kilometres and for some time companies have been logging select parts of it while allowing other parts to grow back.

On the whole Iuthia doesn’t treat its environment with much care, the people see it as a resource and not a national treasure and many trees have suffered industries wrath, the people don’t search the forests for ancient history or interesting plants and wildlife as they have little need of either in their everyday lives. It’s just not as important as modern needs… they occasionally get food from it, they occasionally hunt in it. But overall the forest is mostly unknown; the terrain would change occasionally either way, so a map wouldn’t be worth while.


Near the north of the Umbar Rain Forest lay the village, Kendal. It wasn’t much and is only just connected to the rest of Iuthia through a series of roads and a railway line connecting to the rest of the Iuthian Rail Network. The village produced a small portion of Iuthia farm produce near the rain forest itself. In the distance the remnants of an old civilisation could be seen in the rain forest itself, an ancient temple just about broke the top of the canopy.

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The village people weren’t really too bothered with the pyramid, they knew it existed and they occasionally passed it on their trips into the forest as they went in for things they didn’t farm like various fruits and animals to hunt. The pyramid didn’t mean much to them, it was a wonder they never wondered much about… Iuthian archaeology didn’t really exist as the only important history was that of Iuthia’s past dark ages, to learn the mistakes of old and to show the children why they did things like they did… other ancient civilisations didn’t matter to the education of the people, they were just ruins of a long gone people.

They never asked what happened to that civilisation… it didn’t matter, but soon, perhaps it may have.

Taggedytaggedytaggedytag, due to possible relevence for the future

John Keeves had been preparing for this trip for some time now, eagerly working on getting the right equipment and guides to assist his travels to the lesser known parts of Iuthia. He’d grown up in the sprawling city of Suni in Ponchotopia, he’d studied ancient history at Goodlad University and had grown up fascinated in age old civilisations that used to exist all across the Urbanites region… of course, in those times it wasn’t called the Urbanites because most of the civilisations didn’t know about the others.

John had always been the kind of person to take a hands on approach to his studies and was always the first to sign up for practical assignments assisting others in local archaeological digs. Teachers always noted him as being a keen young lad who took a lot of pleasure in his work who took his time around the delicate job yet rushed when a new fact presented itself. He wasn’t at home in the city of Kieve as it didn’t have any mysteries to uncover… just the monotonous groove of the working city.

Though John’s social life was an odd one, he wasn’t an unattractive man as such, it’s just that he didn’t seem to be able to hold a relationship for long as his passion for his study would get in the way of long term relationships, some felt it was unhealthy but mostly it wasn’t really worried about. He worked hard and he got results and many thought of him as something of a detective for ancient wonders.

Eventually he passed his exams and got a job assisting at an archaeological dig in south Ponchotopia. It was satisfying work but it didn’t feed Johns hunger for adventure, mostly they were digging up pots and pans. Occasionally they found bones but never anything important. So he’d move from site to site as and when opportunity presented itself. He eventually got a good reputation among the Archaeological community for being pretty good at linking facts and finding important pieces of the puzzle…
Now he was readying himself for a trip to Iuthia… others hadn’t really bothered with the idea because it was hard to get funding for such trips. But John was convinced that Iuthia was one of the few places left in Urbanites that hadn’t been tapped for it’s knowledge… he was sure that the best place to look would be the Rainforest of Umbar towards the north of Iuthia, a huge jungle with many various dangers and a large canopy that could cover almost anything. There were even reports of possible tribes of people living in the jungle… but they were uncertain and sketchy.

He’d heard rumours of a pyramid near the Iuthian village of Kendal, a community mostly devoted to a simple life of farming goods for the larger population centres of Iuthia. His search would start there…


(Sorry for simple plot, I'm a little lost to be honest.)