Another World: A Wizard named Catweazle

This Grubby Disheveled Wizard named Catweazle, fleeing the sword blades of Norman Soldiers, packs up his Toad Familiar Touchwood and casting a Spell leaps into a pond only to emerge nine hundred years later...

He doesnt realy cast a gate, rather it is more like a wish (to be wisked away to safety), so as this is a nineth level spell, Catweazle is at least an 18th level Magicuser. His age is to be considered decrepid (over fifty). His brown robes are foul and stained and he reeks of a nasty odour. He has taken Toad as his familiar and until his departure to the future, he lives with his spellbooks and laboratory in a candle-lit cave.

Its probably one of the early UK Isekai to be had in children's TV viewing.

Short Fiction: Takahashi's Fight

Takahashi Reiko sat on the cool concrete in her dark navy blue school uniform awaiting Kendo, out of sight of the crowd moving about the street that could be heard here behind the metal and brick of her Kendo school. The brutality of the high school far from her thoughts, though it had regularly imposed itself on her life and shaped those thoughts. Kendo was her retreat. A hiding place from high school bullying that afforded no grounds for retreat. Education increasingly was an equality afforded those who took it from others, and that was an equality her Sensei had taught her to fight for though she still struggled to comprehend why the fight was no longer a shared struggle with shared rewards.
Other than her Sword, Takahashi was not in anyway someone who stood out. She was at the age of seventeen, youthfully pretty, with the straight black hair of her mother, standing one metre-fourty six tall. She had sacrificed social popularity for a respect both learned and earned. One that her parents, though they had wanted more from her than mediocrity, and wanted more for her than high school, accepted as their daughter's destination in life.
"Perhaps you might find a husband if you do well." Her mother had commented this morning at breakfast though her mother had wanted her to do well and go on to University every conversation up to this morning. Takahashi wondered what had happened to her mother that she would have accepted so much less for her daughter.

Takahashi was brought back to the world when the noise of the street intruded down her alley and a young man made the blind turn down the alley behind the Kendo school only to be quickly nailed to the wall of the building in that distant alley end by a spear.
Takahashi, wide-eyed in surprise at the event that unfolded, screamed in horror when a giant well muscled shirtless man over two metres in height appeared near the meat on a stick and pulled it from the wall. Takahashi sat quietly clutching her sword until she was sure the predator had seen her at which she, back against the wall, she stood slowly and pulled her sword from its scabard.
Takahashi wasn't a killer, as her Sensei often reminded her, and she would always be denied the power it took to kill. Now, this monster of a man, obviously a foreigner by his dark skin and monstrous size had murdered someone with ease, and here she was in an alley way where he controlled one of two exits.
"Sensei?" Takahashi leapt at the back entrance to the kendo school and knocked. She desperately wanted her teacher to be early. At this the ugly man at the end of the alley accelerated toward her, speared meat on a stick in hand. She could see him now with greater accuracy. He was ugly and monstrous in a way that seemed reminiscent of Oni from some fantasy anime, and his clothing, what little of it she could see, though he hid behind his impaled victim, seemed predominantly bloody yet scant to non-existant. And now as the monster, the meat on its skewer screaming and flailing out of some last moment of life ahead of him closed on Takahashi, she screamed at the terror of it all and dropped into a ball diving beneath the skewered meat impacting the wall where she had been.
Her path, sword in hand, scratched her monster's leg as she passed unleashing a spray of blood that painted her, as she slipped its grasp. And she ran for her life down the alley toward the distant turn and the escape of the public and crowded street beyond.
Takahashi slid into the alley turn, her shoes slipping in the dark blood as she looked back down the alley and watched the giant monster chasing after her approach. Takahashi, on her hands and feet, finger painting like an awkward child, crawled out of the blood screaming, only to impact against an unexpected new obstacle that disarmed her of her now panicked flailing sword and silenced her objecting screams, attempting to strike her unconcious, though the impact had felt more like a hard body blow.
Takahashi vomited down the back of the individual now carrying her like a butcher a piglet over his shoulder and she would have remained there had the monstrous giant pursuing her not attacked her abductor for the prize piglet that was clearly his.
A roar of hostile intent screamed in Takahashi's ears as the Monster impacted with the thief, and she dropped against the alley wall with her scattered sword, the weight of a monster landing on her leg, breaking bones as she pushed her sword out blindly impailing something that dropped heavily and unexpectedly on the point of the blade. A voice screamed and died on top of her as she passed out from the pain in that alley-way in Ginza.

Linguistic Archaeology: Rivers in Japan

River Names
1. Abashiri
2. Ishikari
3. Chitose
4. Yūbari
5. Toyohira
6. Makomanai
7. Anano
8. Kushiro
9. Mu
10. Rumoi
11. Saru
12. Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu
13. Shiribetsu
14. Shokotsu
15. Teshio
16. Tokachi
17. Tokoro
18. Yūbetsu
19. Akan
20. Niikappu
21. Shibetsu
22. Shizunai
23. Koetoi
24. Mitsuishi
25. Iwaki
26. Takase
27. Mabechi
28. Kitakami
29. Naruse
30. Natori
31. Abukuma
32. Yoneshiro
33. Omono
34. Koyoshi
35. Mogami
36. Aka
37. Oirase
38. Kuji
39. Naka
40. Tone
41. Edo
42. Ara
43. Sumida
44. Kanda
45. Tama
46. Tsurumi
47. Sagami
48. Fuji
49. Agano
50. Shinano
51. Seki
52. Hime
53. Kurobe
54. Jōganji
55. Jinzū
56. Shō
57. Oyabe
58. Tedori
59. Kakehashi
60. Chikuma
61. Kuzuryū
62. Abe
63. Ōi
64. Sa
65. Tenryū
66. Toyo
67. Yahagi
68. Shōnai
69. Kiso
70. Nagara
71. Ibi
72. Kushida
73. Miya
74. Kuzuryu
75. Kita
76. Yura
77. Yodo
78. Seta
79. Uji
80. Yasu
81. Katsura
82. Hozu
83. Kamo
84. Kizu
85. Dōton-bori
86. Yamato
87. Maruyama
88. Kako
89. Ibo
90. Ki
91. Kumano
92. Shingu
93. Muko
94. Sendai
95. Tenjin
96. Hino
97. Hii
98. Gō
99. Takatsu
100. Yoshii
101. Asahi
102. Takahashi
103. Ashida
104. Ōta
105. Oze
106. Saba
107. Onga
108. Yamakuni
109. Chikugo
110. Yabe
111. Matsuura
112. Rokkaku
113. Kase
114. Honmyo
115. Kikuchi
116. Shira
117. Midori
118. Kuma
119. Ōita
120. Oono
121. Banjo
122. Gokase
123. Omaru
124. Ōyodo
125. Kimotsuki
126. -kawa
127. -gawa

Lets ignore repeat use of -gawa and -kawa and add them individually as these are repeating suffix that likely mean river.

Total: 127
Vowels
A % E % I % O % U %
71 55% 28 22% 67 52% 55 43% 43 33%

Consonantes
B % C % D % F % G %
16 12% 6 4% 7 5% 1 <1% 11 8%

H % J % K % L % M %
32 25% 7 5% 44 34% zero 0% 26 20%

N % P % Q % R % S %
28 22% 1 <1% zero 0% 28 22% 44 34%

T % V % W % X % Y %
33 25% zero 0% 3 2% zero 0% 19 14%

Z %
7 5%



River Names by Popularity of Use

55% A:
52% I, a: Ai, Ia.
43% O, i, a: Oi,
34% S, K, u, o, i, a: Kako, Ki, Aka, Kiso, Sa,
25% T, H, s, k, u, o, i, a: Asahi, Hii, Sho, Oita, Ota, Takahashi, Takatsu, Kita, Shokotsu,
22% R, N, E, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Oono, Kase, Hino, Seta, Shonai, Kakehashi, Seki, Shinano, Tone, Naka, Takase, Koetoi, Akan, Anano, Teshio, Shira, Rokkaku, Katsura, Tedori, Ara, Oirase, Natori, Naruse, Saru, Tokoro, Ishikari, Kushiro,
20% M, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: kimotsuki, Omaru, Kuma, Matsuura, Muko, Kumano, Kamo, Hime, Tsurumi, Tama, Omono, Kitakami, Mitsuishi, Mu, Rumoi, Makomanai,
14% Y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Honmyo, Yamakuni, Yoshii, Yamato, Maruyama, Yasu, Yura, Miya, Toyo, Tenryu, Koyoshi, Yoneshiro, Toyohira, Yubari,
12% B, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Ibo, Yabe, Saba, Ibi, Abe, Oyabe, Kurobe, Abukuma, Shibetsu, Yubetsu, Shiribetsu, Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu, Abashiri, Yubari,
8% G, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Gokase, Onga, Go, Shingu, Nagara, Yahagi, Agano, Sagami, Mogami, Abashiri,
5% D, J, Z, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Oyodo, Midori, Ashida, Sendai, Doton-bori, Yodo, Kushida, Kanda, Sumida, Edo, Banjo, Oze, Tenjin, Kizu, Hozu, Uji, Kuzuryu, Jinzu, Joganji, Kuji, Shizunai,
4% C, j, z, d, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Kikuchi, Chikugo, Chikuma, Mabechi, Tokachi, Chitose,
2% W, c, j, z, d, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: -gawa, -kawa, Iwaki,
<1% F, P, w, c, j, z, d, g, b, y, m, r, n, e, t, h, k, u, s, o, i, a: Fuji, Niikappu,
Zero use: v, q, l, x

Conclusions
The Oi River is known to 43% of the population using the minimum alphabet. This location will be the most significant site for initial Japanese population development Archeology. The Oi river source begins at Mount Aino (literally Mount-ain though Ai-noyama will be its later name). Implying a proto-english subgroup migrated east and settled the Oi river in Japan.

Those 34% tier rivers are significant water ways primarily south west two hundred kilometres in the direction of the Kyoto region implying a significant migration in a south-west direction. North west east of the Oi river is Mt Fuji volcano and beyond it the Sakawa (Sa) river. The only possible conclusion is that they have migrated away from the volcano, considering the proximity of the un-named Fuji River near the Oi river would seem just as inhabitable if not for the possibility of death by sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide from the volcano promising death.

Fuji and Niikappu Rivers are known by less than one percent of the population using the largest alphabet set at the time they are named.

As you can see, a model of population spread over time could be developed for these early peoples.

Art Folio: Castle on the Cliff

A partly ruined structure towers above you...

Preemptive strike: Some random meme

Other Worlds: Arifureta Novelization is psychological trauma

Having gone through the light novels for Arifureta Shokugyo de Sekai Saikyo I can tell you it is in the end a Mary Sue outcome for the Main Character, and thus an expression of the Author's desires. He gets to marry the vampire loli he rescued from the hell dungeon, and he also gets a 'relationship' where he is going to have relations with not only all of his other world harem, but his female teacher, and the surviving female students - all of whom succumb to the idea they want him sexually.

He goes from a bullied and despised weakling only cared for by the two most popular girls in class- yet imprisoned by the fact that any relationship he might attempt to have with them ends in being brutalized by the dominant male classmates to being powerful enough to kill any rival and enjoy any female his power attracts.

It is especially horrifying when you consider what happens to those female students not interested in being in his harem, being one of his wives or prefering one of the other male classmates as the story progresses through 178 chapters of light novels... dead to the last. Dead whether by the Main character's hand, in dispute with the MC's Harem, or in conflicts with others.

Frankly with the fiction peeled off, its a very terrifying delve into the Psychology and Life of the Author. Its almost as though his childhood is the deserved punishment for who he becomes as an adult.

Other Worlds: Arifureta Anime

Sensei levels up to Goddess of Fertility

Arifureta Episode 10 sees an army of Sixty thousand monsters sent by 'the demon lords' to exterminate a Social Studies Teacher who, along with her students, has been unwillingly transported to another world. While we know that a number of her students are 'volunteered' to fight for the Empire, Sensei has apparently escaped to a mountain village with a handful of students where she is teaching the locals modern agriculture.

She pleads with Hajime to save these people and he eventually agrees, though the speech he gives the villagers levels her up from Aiko Hatayama, Social Studies Teacher through Lady Aiko, Aiko - Goddess of Agriculture, Aiko - Goddess of Plenty, to Aiko - Goddess of Fertility (you dont see this in the subtitled version, but its the unsubtitled third time he describes Aiko in the same speech and moment she blushes in embarrassment).
Its also the moment she must realize that (a) not all her students are going to survive to make it home from this Isekai, and (b) Hajime is prepared to personally kill his fellow students to keep her alive.

This is a significant change in the Anime because when the dust has settled on this massacre, and her student Nagumo Hajime-san with the Aid of his OP harem is done slaughtering this army, and dragging its 'leader' back to his Sensei we find it is one of her other wayward students.
The 'demon lords' have concluded from the information they got from her wayward student about this Teacher concerned them so much that they sent him back to murder her and erase her village from existance with an army of sixty thousand monsters.

So what the hell is it about a teacher that could scare a demon lord?
If modern Agriculture is offensive, its to civilizations that prefer to control and manipulate a poorly educated hungry populace.
Its more than likely her lack of loyalty to the Monarch that summoned her and her students to this other world, and any of her objections to the sacrifice of her students to defend it with their lives.

Though most might not understand the significance of this episode, by the end of it Hajime has effectively declared Sensei his prefered political candidate as the next Empress of this Isekai Empire.

Hatayama Aiko: Normal Human, Lawful; Age 25; female; Str 5, Int 12, Wis 9, Dex 5, Con 10, Cha 9; Skills: Appraisal (plants), Teaching, Science (Social Studies), Science (Modern Agriculture); Other Aliases: Sensei, Lady Aiko, Aiko - Goddess of Agriculture, Aiko - Goddess of Plenty, Aiko - Goddess of Fertility.

Creature Catalogue: Young of Shub-Niggurath

Young of Shub-Niggurath
HD    12-20*
AC      -5
MV    90' (30')
AT      Trample or Tentacle + Bite / Cry
DA     10d6/6d6/As Hitpoints or Special
SA      Fighter: L12-L20
NA     1(0)
ML     12
TT       nil
AL      Chaotic
XP      1,900-3,150

A terrible black other-planar horror of writhing tangled tentacles, great trampling hooves, and gaping maws each of which give out a terrifying cry vaguely reminiscent of a goat, though anyone less than name level hearing it or looking upon it must undertake continuous charisma checks or flee in terror. These tower 12'-20' high, though there are rumors amongst summoners of dark ritual sites, combined with great sacrifices capable of summoning beasts up to a hundred feet in height.

Other Worlds: the early Isekai of Aura Batler Dunbine

Aura Battler Dunbine is an early 1980s Anime Isekai in which a Motorcyclist from Japan is harassed by idiots in cars on a highway ccausing him to jump his motorcycle over the car ahead of him only to intersect a dimensional doorway in the air. He awakens in the lower world which is populated by medieval european humans, monsters, and various fairy folk, along with ufo and mecha technology thanks to other recent humans from the upper world. The local lord (an American from California) has been enslaving a selkie (water-woman) to use her power to open the gate and snatch folk and technology from the upper world. A number of upper worlders are pulled through and the hero and companions- including an American who refers to the hero as 'Jap'.
A 'rebel' faction fairy incites the hero to stop enslaving the selkie to no avail at the gate site refered to as Byston Well and the upper worlders are taken to the lord's castle. On the way there they see a UFO which is a product of the local lord's greatness. Axxnd on arrival are treated to a gladiator event in which a hero uses a powered armour/mecha to butcher a large creature for the crowd's entertainment. That night a tiny rebel winged fairy (refered to as ferario) again attempts to make contact with the hero inciting him to help.

In further episodes there is revealed to be conflict with rival nobles who have slowly acquired technology including powered armour/mecha.
Next day during mecha flight training the hero fights a red haired rebel faction mecha knight who gets away. He recognizes her later at a meeting between a rival noble and his current 'lord'.
A noble woman travelling in a coach drawn by horses is killed when her coach is attacked by mecha having been mistaken for the rebel faction lord.

Its starting out interesting, and the red haired lady mecha-knight (an upper worlder named Marvel Frozen) reminds me of a similar anime character in the recent RE: Creators anime. She seems to have become a common trope heroine making her way through many such anime.

Dungeon Mastery: Ruined Castles in Anime

Castle of the Slime Wizard

Two different castle ruins to be explored by the heroes in isekai anime appear in the Anime Isekai wa Smartphone and Konosuba.
In Isekai wa Smartphone a castle sits on a lake at the end of a well maintained road. Here is the ruined castle of a dead Wizard who specialized in evolving slimes and jellies into Mimics- prefering to have them assume the shape of pretty girls. Of course the OP and support harem enter the castle and are menaced and generally endangered by slimes and Mimics.

Fortress of the Devil-king's General

In Konosuba the Protagonist hikes way out into the middle of nowhere with an Arch-Wizard armed with Explosion magic so she can get some practice. They find a castle and Arch-Wizard Megumin nukes it with an Explosion spell from great distance on a daily basis.
The Headless Horseman who to the heroes unknowingly resides there is a General of the Devil-king's army and is backed up by an army of Undead Knights.

The difference in series is that these ruins vary in accessibility. One is at the end of the well maintained road that leads to it, the other overlooking a rickety track that might have once serviced the citadel.

Machine Overlord: Artificial Intelligence creates a Eurovision Song

Like when you encounter Modrons and suddenly realized the sound they make suddenly sounds like the most awesome song you have ever heard.

Dungeon Mastery: Building an Isekai

If you are going with an Isekai for your Fiction or D&D game it needs five things:

1. It needs to be happening in the Other World and the Earth World at the Same time.

So when the school bus experiences a warp transporting the students to Summer camp and the zero level PCs are dumped into the Isekai of their Nightmares, it literally cuts the bus in half leaving the players with characters sitting in the back of the bus and in a position to investigate the techno-organic gate that straddles the road, and their cell phones can communicate through the gate and are in a position to seek help, but also the second group of characters in the front of the bus who are now in the red wastes of Aard where there is no water or food that they can find.


2. It needs to be very different to the world they left behind. Its hard to achieve 'Alien' to the Characters from modern earth where knowledge of obscure landscapes, though unexperienced by a band of school kids from suburban Tokyo might be well known to them thanks to the internet and education.

Unlike Earth, Aard is a world where the PCs can survive by working together or through betrayal. The Red Wastes are brutal, where the soils are rich in iron that magnetic fields are going to create electrical fields. Electrical Storms are common. Dust Storms involve walls of dust a mile high rolling across the landscape.


3. A magic system exists that can develop over time.

The Red Wastes magnetic fields generating electric fields that can be made use of by intelligent characters. 
A Steel Rod can be thrown as a spear using a Womerra.
Because of the high electrical storm nature of the Isekai region, Lightning will go to ground through a spear of steel that has penetrated the target from above causing lightning to ground through the target.
Given the red soil is used to soak up sweat and mixed as mud in hair and coat the body to protect it from sunburn and reduce moisture loss.


4. Multiple Characters interacting and conversing in the isekai setting.

The Bus Driver/Teacher, and twelve Students are travelling up into the mountains to a camping outing.... the Teacher, and five students are pulled into the other world. Seven high school students are left injured on a mountain road. 

Characters in the Other World

• Miss Kobayashi (Teacher, involved with same teacher as Ai)
• Mio (Student, Photography Club President)
• Rin (Student, socially isolated, Manga Artist)
• Yue (Student, Athletic, Class President, bully)
• Umi (Student, socially isolated and quiet, regularly bullied by Yue)
• Ai (Student, secretly pregnant with a teacher's child, was planning to kill herself on the trip)

Characters in the Real World

• Miko (student, Involved with Jin)
• Jin (student, only male in class, involved with Miko)
• Reiko (student, Jin's previous interest)
• Tae (student, socially isolated Goth girl)
• Kanna (student, music club member)
• Akkane (student, music club member)
• Suki (student, music club member)

5. Self Awareness that the characters are Survivors as opposed to Heroes. Some characters establish them selves as 'survivors' early on. Others prove increasingly selfish over time.

Jin, who moments earlier had been fondling his fellow student Miko's thigh watched the front of the bus vanish. They are propelled forward from the exposed rear of the bisected bus. Thrown through the air toward the certain injury that would soon be shared by both, Jin grabs Miko and adjusted his position putting her between himself and the rock approaching outcrop using her to cushion their deceleration. Her impact on the rock comes with a terrible crack that caused her thighs to go limp in his hands. She will never walk again.

Yue, faced with starvation or living in a world where there is no rescue, murders Rin in the middle of their first night and prepares Rin's remains as their food source. Her actions lure a mud worm out of the soil which proves to be an alternate food source. She keeps Rin's manga art out of guilt, reading it in secret. Carrying nothing but Rin's Manga Yue flees the group. She finds that Rin's manga contains the dirty little secrets of a number of students and teachers including Ai's pregnancy and the father of her child.

Basic Expert: Enchanted Gingerbread

Gingerbread-folk
Magic-use has resulted in contamination of the everyday world to the point where anything crafted in a vaguely humanoid form has a chance of becoming sentient on completion of their crafting. So it was inevitable that bakers producing popular treats such as gingerbread-folk would on occasion produce the diminutive and sentient foodstuff.

Weapons
Weapons usable by Gingerbread-folk are rare if not outright non-existant. So they can use makeshift weapons such as cutlery and leather sewing needles.

Level   Experience     Hit Dice        Spells             Thief Skills
                                                             1st        Move Silently   Hide
  1                         0          1d3               -                   90%            92%
  2                     500          2d3               -                   91%            93%
  3                   1000          3d3               -                   92%            94%
  4                   2000          4d3               -                   93%            95%
  5                   4000          5d3               -                   94%            96%
  6                   8000          6d3               -                   95%            97%
  7                 20000          7d3               2/hour        96%            98%

Saving Throws
Given the magical nature of Gingerbread-folk they save as elves of the same level.

Ability Bonus
Every level a Gingerbread-folk gains a +1 bonus to any one of the six primary abilities. The player may allocate the bonus as desired to strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution, or charisma.

Spells
At seventh level Gingerbread-folk may tap their own magical nature to cast first level magic-user spells (twice per hour).

Thief Skills
While the Gingerbread-folk can move silently, its harder to hide from any creature capable of detecting food by smell. Animals looking for food get a +50% bonus to detecting gingerbread folk.

An enraged Gingerbread Princess...

Enraged Kill
The Gingerbread may, having watched a companion die, become enraged inflicting bonus damage equal in hitpoints on their opponent. If the roll is a critical hit aka natural 20, the opponent is killed by the hit.

Linguistic Archaeology: The Age of the Frost Giants

Hoar means frost. So when we get the short-form Hor in predynastic egyptian kings we are faced a marker refering to Frost.

 Time Table of the Frost Giant Kings 
 -Hor Suffix     Long-form      Period   
  Ny-                   Nkuku           3200 BC 
  Hedju-             Hkudjku        3175 BC 
  Iry-                   Kuarkuku     3150 BC 
  Nat-                  Nart               3100 BC 
 Hor- Prefix     Long-form      Period   
  -Aha                 Arhar            3050 BC  
  -Us                    Kus                2900 BC  

Name-Hor form flips to Hor-name between 3100 BC - 3050 BC. This suggests a significant change in language development.


Linguistic Popularity shortform
A    %      E       %       I     %       O       %       U     %
2    33%   1       16%  1     16%   0       0%     2     33%

B    %      C       %       D    %       F       %       G     %
0    0%    0        0%    1     16%   0       0%     0     0%

H    %      J       %       K     %       L       %       M     %
2    33%  1      16%    0     0%     0       0%     0     0%

N    %      P       %       Q     %       R       %       S     %
2    33%  0        0%     0     0%     1       16%   1     16%

T    %      V       %       W     %      X       %       Y     %
1    16%  0        0%     0     0%     0       0%     2     33%

Z    %      
0    0%

Popularity of Use                                  Shortform
33%     (A, u, h, n, y):                             Ny-, -Aha
16%    (I, d, r, s, t):                                  Nat-, Hedju-, Iry-, -Us

So we see a pattern where the first of their cycle is popular, but those that follow are less popular. Oddly Kuarkuku (the long form of Iry-) has 50% popularity of use compared to all other longforms (Ku being 66%, and Ar being 50%). -Kuar being Crown Prince in suffix form, it exists here in prefix form of Crown Prince Kuku. So who is Crown Prince Kuku? Perhaps a descendant of Ny- (Nkuku).

Primordial Plants: Radial Clumping Palm

Found growing on rocks in a high moisture environment much like lichen, the plant growing from a central root/trunk feels to be little more than wet clumps like a wet wooly towel on the bathroom floor. It is however made up of leaf layers radiating from a central point through which the root/trunk grows. A new leaf layer grows at the top of the plant, and expands open the previous leaf layer. The individual leaf is around two inches (five centimetres) in diameter fully grown in its continually moist environment.