Hollow Earth

"There's an ecosystem out there the likes of which we can't imagine...".- Danny Thompson

The Hollow Earth is an ancient but at the same time perilous, subterranean terrain located within the deep core of the Earth. It is a location in the ParaVerse that was first alluded in Don't Let the Darkness Consume You in a fantasy book, before becoming the main location in Hunt of the Blood Mandrake. It was also featured in Double Feature and mentioned in The Last Stand.

For many years, theories of a world located beneath the surface began to come around. The ancient location is widely believed to be the source of global myths and legends about people and creatures emerging from the Earth, due to mysterious creatures and ancient human ancestors having lived there at one time before coming to the surface world.

History
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Description
The Hollow Earth is an ancient subterranean ecosystem located deep within the Earth, close to the planet's core. It is surrounded by a gravitational-electrostatic "membrane" anomaly inside the Earth's mantle. Its gravity is unique and inverts at a halfway point, allowing creatures to walk freely on both floor and ceiling of the Hollow Earth without fear of falling from one to the other. The ecosystem continually radiates radioactive energy, allowing the creatures that inhabit it to evolve and develop otherwordly powers, shapes, and even sizes. Known entrances to the Hollow Earth include Valguero, Antarctica, the Mariana Trench, and the Loch Ness. In Double Feature, it was revealed by King Midas that Valguero was a small part of the Hollow Earth, but was separated from it after the Continental Drift took place, which is the reason why several creatures from the Hollow Earth live in the mysterious island.

There are many types of biomes found in the Hollow Earth. One of them is an extremely large and misty rainforest, called the Jungle Mists, where the colors and stranger things are always present. Although there is so much life in there, this biome is extremely dangerous due to the savage creatures that hide within. In another part of the Hollow Earth, is the Roots of Ruin, a mountain-like, rocky biome where the gravity is unstable and luminiscent rocks float in the air. Another biome, called the Fields of Delusion, is an aberrant and luminous region that shines with extremely radioactive energy, requirering protection in order to dwell within it with safety. There is also a tropical biome billed as Barebone Falls, consisting in watefalls and lakes dyed in purple, and has extravagant vegetation, including Valguero's Blood Mandrake. The last known biome is a nether-like Infernal Ridge, where lava and radioactive energy radiates like the sun, including multiple caverns filled with mystery. This is the location that is much closer to the Earth's core.

Geographical Features

 * Valguero (formerly)
 * Barebone Falls
 * Jungle Mists
 * Roots of Ruin
 * Fields of Delusion
 * Infernal Ridge

Residents

 * The Ancient Ones
 * Megan Wynter (formerly)
 * King Midas
 * Nozuki
 * Cornelius
 * Goliath
 * Araneomorphus
 * Blade Wasps
 * Deinonychus
 * Deinotherium
 * Dinopithecus
 * Gachas
 * Gigantopithecus
 * Lymantrias
 * Seekers
 * Titanoboas

Visitors

 * Anastasia Wynter
 * Talbot Dreadnoughtus
 * ARK