[h3]The Barkolopus[/h3]

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[i]Crude drawing of a barkolopus meandering the smokey hills of Cansma, unknown origin[/i]

Massive beings who dwell among the rolling, smoke colored hills of Cansma which expand for hundreds of kilometers known as the Barkolopus make their stopping grounds, scouring the cloudy realm for aetherial energies.  They are massive things, with bark-like skin, like massive leathery centipedes meandering the seemingly endless plains.  So massive these creatures are, with their millions of limbs stretching dozens of kilometers each even though they are but a few hundred meters wide among the body with their kilometer long legs that whole societies have built themselves on the backs of these massive animalistic creatures, of whom host whole ecosystems lining their back like some fanciful green coating which they parade around, perhaps for mates or simply because they are just so mindless as to not care of the life that subsists off of them.  The Barkolopus are attracted to aetherial energies, lo and behold whatever has it- for the Barkolopus are mindlessly persistent in their desire to absorb such energy for life.  The Barkolopus aren't plant or animal, yet they are something living.  It is unknown what the Barkolopus are, except that they are some form of ruse.  The exact nature of which to this day remains amazingly unclear.

As the Barkolopus come in numbers, huge numbers in the sprawling plains and hills whole civilizations have built themselves between various Barkolopi over the ages, subided off the vegetation and material one can find on the back of the Barkolopus.