Apeiron Lore: Fantastic Flora and Fauna

How ya doin’, doods and doodettes? Today, we’re going to have a sweet, sweet lore piece on the sweet, sweet plants in the godiverse, and…

Sep 14, 2023

How ya doin’, doods and doodettes? Today, we’re going to have a sweet, sweet lore piece on the sweet, sweet plants in the godiverse, and not only that, but we’ll also talk about some food…uh…animals! Because of course, what could be more appealing for our gourmandizing lil’ doods than edible plants and animals? Food is good! Food is LIFE! And our doods have successfully found ways to turn most of the flora and fauna into food (in dood-terms they’re really now known as “food and food”).

In this week’s blog post, we’re starting our introduction to the flora and fauna with the most common plants and animals that you could see around the Apeiron godiverse, those you could probably see mostly everywhere, particularly on Normal Planets. We hope you enjoy this jaunty exploration — and if you’d like to see more pieces like this, let us know!~

Buuuttttt before we begin, we of course have some announcements we’d like to share with y’all. First, we’ve updated the drop rates for Apostles during Booty Hours. You can expect during Booty Hours to get higher IV Apostles than you normally would — a great time to do some Apostle hunting!

Second, we’re dropping 1000 Dood Halo from now until October 11th, 6pm GMT+8. If you’ve never gotten a Halo before, now you can find one simply by playing! Dood Halo can be used to mint a free dood Apostle NFT, which, combined with the change listed above, means that there has never been a time to find that perfect Apostle you’ve been searching for.

Finally, and this is an important one, we’re removing neutral skill cards from the game. Previously, we highlighted that Planet breeding could produce Planets with Neutral skills, which would be less powerful versions of other elemental skills. Essentially, the way we had implemented breeding, there were certain situations where Planets could not or would not inherit skills from the parents, so to fill in these “blank” spaces, we came up with the idea for Neutral skill cards. However, in the current version of the Skill Tree system (which is still under development), every Planet will have access to at least 3 skills. In this case, there’s no need for the weaker Neutral skills to exist — so they’re no longer going to be part of the game. We’ll have A LOT more to say about the Skill Tree when it’s ready — so be on the lookout for that!

ALSO: a quick reminder that we are roughly halfway through our Off Season Leaderboard! Please note that you need to clear at least Room 100 AND end your run to secure your spot. With a prize pool of over $4000, it’s a great way to spend some downtime — check out the #Play-Now channel on our Discord for more details!

Ok, that’s our housekeeping done. So let’s head outside and…touch grass.

Flora

Hickleberry bush

Things might change over time, but the high quality of Hickleberry jam in the godiverse never changes. It was once asked by a curious dood at Tally’s temple: What’s the best jam in the godiverse to go with toasted bread? Tally, the Goddess of Hierarchical Lists answered, and then officially recorded, that Hickleberry jam is always the best. If you ever get a chance to taste Hickleberry jam, the sweetness is going to melt your tongue (in a good way). Indeed, dood legends say that Hickleberries are blessings from Horticult, the God of Agriculture. Every spring, Horticult would sprinkle sweet magic on the lands to fertilize the soil, of which some of the mana particles later became Hickleberries.

Nowadays, you can find Hickleberry bushes, which are low enough to the ground for any doods to pick the sweetest berries, growing everywhere in the godiverse, especially around the farmlands of the Axis Mundi. The famously rich Lamancha Dood family owns the largest plantation of Hickleberry fields, and they bring huge profits by producing the most reputed Lamancha Hickleberry Jam. “A fine example of dood agricultural produce.” — Horticult remarked, seeing the Lamancha Dood family’s farmlands.

Sugarmelon tree

Icy sugarmelon makes a great snack during the scorching summers. Worker doods are tasked with the daredevil responsibility of catching the plummeting melons from towering trees, but it is not often that they are able to catch them which adds rarity to this specific type of melon. The Days Without Accident sign at the sugarmelon tree catching zone is often at 0 as worker doods often find themselves on the receiving end of some serious sugarmelon-related bonks on the head…

From time to time, doods from the farmlands of the Axis Mundi would engage in friendly barters with their toasty dood friends from the hotter regions for the purposes of turning freshly caught sugarmelons into chilled and delightfully refreshing icy smoothies. Considering the amount of effort that is put in harvesting, delivering, and freezing these fruits, really only well-established doods can get their hands on these juicy treasures. Picture this — it’s midsummer night in Richie Town where the most affluent and cultured dood clans such as the Kardooshians and the Waltdoods, host extravagant, gossip-worthy sangria parties under the glittering stars. And in this distance, a green light…

Flour flower

We all know that doods are simultaneously slack masters and gourmets. In the beginning of creation, the High Goddess Cosmos estimated that doods would only need around 3000 years to discover bread and pastry but the doods were too lazy to grind and mix the flour. Eventually, Cosmos asked Horticult to create a plant called the “Flour Flower”, in which the process of fermentation starts as a bud and the fruit of the plant grows into bread during the autumn.

The flour flower was originally two types of plants in a symbiotic relationship, including a wheat-like plant and a yeast fungi. After years of evolution and the grafting of Horticult, they eventually became one. When the plant is mature, you would see the flower rise like a bread dough, and gradually grow into a bread-like fruit. The sesame-like sprinkles on top of the bread are actually the seeds of flour flower, which doods would take and plant them in their farmlands.

Glowstool

Glowstool is a fungi with a glowing star-shape on top of its cap. It glows with the mana energy it absorbs from the soil, even stealing mana energy from neighboring plants — the nerve! This can, however, be sometimes helpful: these pilfering fungi are particularly effective at curing Manaphytosis, a plant disease which involves the over-absorption of mana energy. More practically for the doods, Glowstools come in different sizes, with some of them large enough to become stools for doods, while others grow only as tiny as a dood palm.

Some doods who tried to eat Glowstools ended up glowing, and were mistaken by other doods as dood ghosts. As the effect was too spooky, Glowstools were banned from consumption (*sad dood noise*) by most village chiefs — although sometimes some cheeky doodlings will still eat some for fun and to cause a bit of mischief. Nowadays, doods would attach the Glowstools to the end of a wooden stick and form a torch on dark winter nights, or take a secret bite when hungry (which is all the time).

Fauna

Groat

Groats are herbivores but are still vicious creatures. Normally, you would find them wandering around brainlessly chewing on stalks of grass. However, some doods know from first-hand experience that if you treat them poorly, they can go from chill to kill in 2.5 bleats. Many a hungry dood has tried to take a bite out of these guys and guess what, they get the infamous groat punt that they deserved.

These creatures live on the hills and slopes around mountains, but really they can be spotted anywhere from Gigas to plains. They usually travel as a herd or in trios, climbing through mountains and valleys, and as their natural habitat is full of slopes, they develop strong hind limbs to climb the steepness. There are a few rare species of groats that can be tamed and domesticated — notably on worlds where a special type of “blue grass” proliferates, one which has a notably sedative property. In any case, these much more chilled-out groats make delicious milk that can be fermented and used to produce different types of cheese, a highly valued product among doods, who use it on everything from doodburgers to pizza.

Dolk / Batterdolk

Dolks are one of the few species to have been fully domesticated by doods. They are large, chonky creatures, rather fluffy, standing on four legs, with a pair of impressive horns on their heads. Despite their large size, the doods had no problem domesticating the dolks, because these animals, unfortunately, are dumb as bricks — dumber, even. They spend most of the time lazing around eating grass or staring up at the sky in wonder (it never stops amazing them). When they are under the blazing sun and wandering around the fields, they enjoy rolling around and getting nature’s scent all over themselves as they nourish their fur with dirt. They are the doods’ primary source of meat.

Beyond regular Dolks, there also exist Batterdolks. These are Dolks with horns that curl around their head in such a way that it almost works to shield their skulls in a fashion akin to a battle helmet. Batterdolks tend to be a touch more aggressive and livelier than their almost catatonic cousins, bashing their helmets together in displays of clattering violence. Most doods consider the Batterdolks something of a nuisance, but certain Apostles love to ride or be accompanied by a Batterdolk into battle. Similarly, if two villages of doods have come to war, Batterdolks will be employed on the frontlines of assault. Still, each side must be careful, because Batterdolks don’t have the best eyesight, and more than one conflict has ended prematurely as both sides end up working together to control their Dolks.

Tupeck

There are no Tupecks crowing in the morning of the godiverse. Not because the Tupecks don’t want to, but because they have veil-like majestic bangs formed by their long feathers and which cover their eyes, making them pseudo-blind creatures who can’t see the sunrise. The doods specifically chose this species to domesticate, as they didn’t want their morning dreams (mainly about food) interrupted by the noisy crows. Moreover, they are low maintenance and doods simply need to feed them with flour flower seeds.

Still, their comical appearance comes down to more than just their lengthy bangs. You might notice that the anatomical components of the female Tupecks are not exactly balanced — a tiny head containing a tiny brain, and a HUGE pair of thighs (very meaty and juicy, yum yum), the latter making up 80% of their whole body. The male Tupecks, on the other hand, due to some evolutionary twist, are much tinier, remaining practically the same size and shape as when they have just hatched from their eggs. As they look rather round and cute, some doods keep the males as pets. Well… just never ask if they eat their pet Tupecks.

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As the flora and fauna continue to flourish in 1 godiverse street, Axis Mundi, we look forward to hearing your thoughts. Are we loving them or just LOVING ‘EM?! Do you want to hold hands with the Dolks? Let us know on our Discord, where we talk about all things Apeiron related, and don’t forget to also follow our Twitter for the latest juice. We promise there’s more to come, but for now, thanks for reading and as always, see ya next time godlings.

About Apeiron

Apeiron is the world’s first NFT-based play-and-earn god game. Apeiron will feature a unique card-based action-adventure combat system combined with god game simulation gameplay inspired by classic god games like Populous and Black & White. Players will be able to build up planets from above before descending to the ground as a powerful Avatar to solve the mysteries of the universe. Players will grow their planet to the point of developmental stagnation, then reset the planetary cycle via an Armageddon event to allow for even more advancement and thrilling late-game alliance level GvE and GvG activities. Apeiron will use a tri-token architecture, which means that there will be three separate tokens to navigate their ecosystem: a governance token, a play-to-earn token, and a premium alliance token.