Biome concept: the candle peak mountains
One biome ive been thinking about ive actually seen in a game once. That game was Yonder,¹ and the biome was a mountain peak filled with candles of all sizes. Admittedly in that game it was man made, but I have been ruminating on how it could work as a natural biome, something which the senseless genetic tinkering the Shee did would make possible. Hollow, icy peaks, glittering with thousands of little flames. These caves are full of life. Boreal brushland stands at the foot of these mountains. The waxy moths (inspired by a short story²) that nest in the peaks flutter down during the night, harvesting resin and eating pine needles. They find their peaks through the light of the natural candles. The nests and cocoons they grow with waxen secretions form natural candles. moth and waxen cocoon The smaller hitch bee gratefully nests in the cocoons of the colossal moths. They feed on moth larvae and on pupating moths. Horrid as this sounds, the idiotic moths do not seem to notice the scant ...