🌿 I| Land of Tea | Nanabara Isles

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~Nanabara Isles~

Climate:
The Nanabara Isles like its sibling islands, is often consistently hot if not borderline seething throughout the year. The flora surrounding the island is dense but connects to the mainland via a small strip of land making it still connected to the Land of Tea, however, unlike the other strips of land which connect to the land mass known as the Forest of Collusion a barrier of thick thorny flora referred to as the Bramble Barricade prevents any unwanted entry. Travelers who lack a bird's eyes view simply assume these segments are dead ends in the Forest.

History:
The Daimyo of the Land of Tea has marked it as it's own independent territory along with a collection of four other sections of land that are strikingly similar. The Nanabara isles are but one out of five total similar landmasses that all seem to dangle on the boundaries of the Land of Tea's coastlines. Among two and a few other small landmasses too small to be called independent islands are known as the Nanbara Isles. The Nanabara Isles are a territory of which neighboring Hojo on the other three isles claim to be their's by birthright but by squatting rights belong to the Nanabaran's. The animosity between the two bloodlines is deep seeded. So much so that the Nanabaran's defended these islands with their lives from the 'squid demons'.

Customs:
•Nanabaran's are an isolated people they do not believe that the techniques ninja use are called jutsu but rather are natures gifts and shamanistic magics.
•Nanabaran's are a sect of Senju which deviated away from the beliefs of Ninshuu and ventured a path more associated with Senjutsu and the belief in attaining strength through nature itself.
•Nanabaran's are a warrior race, comparably they would equate to amazons and amazoness's in their builds and skin tones. They are inequitable hunter-gatherers
•Nanabaran's due to their isolation and primitive nature lack language skills. They will often speak in broken sentences and confusing sentence syntax.
•Women and Men are treated as equals, but dominance in a relationship is determined by who can defeat the other in combat.
•The sickly, weak, and other derivatives are often medicine men and women or assume the title of Shaman if they are intelligent. If they lack any survival skills and wisdom despite their age and weakness they are looked down upon.
•Nanabaran's pride themselves on excellent tropical foods but none is greater than the Banana. The fixation on the Banana originating on the yellow fruit saving their entire tribes during times of famine as even old Banana's were able to be repurposed into edible substance.

Features:
• Huts: Nanabarans are simple, they do not run businesses, they hunt for their own food and survived for decades in their isolation
• Shaman Hut: Rumors of a Shaman that resides on one of the Nanabaran islands spread of how he is able to rekindle wavering loves, and grant what a person needs most. None of this has been confirmed however.

•Shop:
◘Banana [5] Ryo
Description: There is no Banana greater or more delicious than a Nanabaran Banana.

Primary Imports:
•Do not believe in Importing

Primary Exports:
•Bananas

•Population Among Islands: 102

Defenses:

•Bramble Barricade: The inhabitants of these isles set up Barricades of thorny vines to surround the island. They extend to even through the waters. They are reactive and respond to movement lashing out at would be intruders at a C-rank efficiency. Unless being a Senju oneself this often leads to being ensnared or harmed unless invited personally to the islands.

•Palm Towers: The Palm Tower are towers constructed from palm trees that act as lookouts and see above the bramble walls. They essentially also serve as ideal bunkers for attacking an invading target from a distance. Affixed to each Palm Tower is what the tribespeople are canons which will often fire wooden shrapnel or other varying ammunition of a B-rank amount requiring reloading after firing. Each island has anywhere from 3 - 7 Palm Towers.

•Forest of Collusion: This forest primarily contains the C-ranked Giant Animal dubbed Devil Horns. A Devil Horn is much like a ram only it's horns are red. The term devil horn comes from the pigmentation of the horns. The name of the forest comes from their ability to call other Devil Horn's as they often all work together for creating a stampede. Their stampedes have been known to level parts of the forest. They are highly territorial but to an Endai who primarily remains high in the trees using their arms not unlike vines to swing from one to the other, they are hardly any concern.