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Lokir

Character Info
Name: Lokir
Age: Mid 30s
Alignment: TG
Race: Werebear
Gender: Male
Class: Heavy Knight
Silver: 0
Deep within the Sahel forest is Cameroon, the Canopy City. The towering trees serve as the locals' homes, built within and around the ancient trees. Crafted from timber taken from smaller trees the locals have built their village high in the tree tops, their buildings anchored to, or sometimes created within the trunks, the trees themselves. Those that are build around the trunks usually have a railed walkway around it and a bridge out to a central platform that serve has a crossroad of sorts with branching pathways off to other homes and buildings. These buildings are typically one story as not to load too much weight on the stilts that hold them in place, as strong as they are. Roofs are generally pointed with troughs around them to keep the water from settling, some of the locals collecting the rain water to use for their planters and drinking.

Those houses that created from the very trunks of the trees are multi story out of obvious necessity. Inside of these homes the core of the trees are left untouched as not to harm the tree, and in most cases staircases are crafted around the core to left to the other floors. Otherwise the lay out is up to the owner and no two are alike beyond the core of the tree being intact, nature is to be respected at all times if the are to live within and among it.

Rope and wood walkways dominate the canopies, connecting all of the homes and businesses together in a network not unlike a spiders web. They make it as safe as possible for visitors so no one falls off the edge, since it is a very long way down and there are no safety nets to catch anything that falls. If you don't like heights this is not the place to visit.

To get to the village high in the trees you have two options. Around the trunks of some select and the largest of trees staircases have been carved to allow one to walk up. It's a long climb and at points there are platforms with places to sit and rest for at time, or just enjoy the view, for it is beautiful at any level. Another way to access the top are cargo elevators that have been built to allow easy flow of bulk goods to the locals. Generally used for cargo transport there are a few smaller passenger sides lifts for those that cannot make the stair climb for one reason or another. While the stairs are free the lifts cost a small nominal fee to help offset the cost of upkeep and to pay the workers who work it.

The locals are of a collection of races from all over Onnen. However the most common to see there are Basaa Hoomans and Twa Cheetah people. There are some insect races here as well, mostly Mantis and Termite, but there are smaller families of other races here as well. They all, for the most part, get along well, the one general rule they follow is respecting the forest they live in and the trees, otherwise it's like any other community.

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