Thread:The Reptile King/@comment-39280634-20190923172721/@comment-27950421-20200930164641

The Reptile Kingdom is incredibly dangerous, but not because of the mamono, mamono love humans in the kingdom just as much as the ones outside of it do. They're more willing to to use violence and murder than the ones outside of the kingdom, but that doesn’t mean they want to. Even a rampaging Jho isn't going to kill you unless you give her a good reason to do so. But if an bunch of Order soldiers show up threatening their hubby, the mamono there are more than happy to end their lives.

What makes the kingdom dangerous isn't the mamono, it's the wildlife. You have animals that have reached the peak of the predator/prey arms race walking around. You could be out camping and a Tyrannosaurus can come stomping in and eat you. Not a Tyrannosaurus mamono, but an honest to God(zilla) dinosaur. That's not even touching on the reptilian monsters there who aren't under the influence of the demon lord. You could run into an actual, 100% monster dragon, no girl added.

Add that to the fact that the overwhelming majority of the kingdom's land is virgin wilderness, untouched by man or mamono and you have an environment that is profoundly hostile to people that are dependent on the advantages most humans take for granted, even in a medieval setting. Simply put, being a sapient species with complex too use does not guarantee a spot at the top of the food chain.

Now I can't give statistics on mortality rates and the like, I leave stuff open ended so people can figure stuff out for their own head cannon and so writers have an easy time using what I have put out for their stories but I can say that, aside from a few pockets of thoroughly established civilization, pretty much everyone in the Kingdom is used to evading and fighting large predators or hiding behind the mamono that do it for them. The average Joe can survive, but without finding help, it will certainly be a trial in and of itself.

Failed Order incursions are often times their own fault. I'm sure you can imagine what an Order zealot is going to think when he sees a dinosaur and doesn't know what he's looking at. Probably something along the lines of "It's a demon!" And they go to kill it. Picking fights with random wildlife is not a wise choice. That and the emotional impact they have when doing shit would be incredibly irritating to a Godzillasaurus and that’s pretty much the end for anyone who doesn't leave the territory fast enough. So they kind of make the place more dangerous to themselves than it needs to be.

If you wantbto imagine a borderlands feel for the rural reptile kingdom, go ahead. Like I said, I keep stuff open ended.

Entering the kingdom is easy enough and how to do so is on several of the pages I've written as would be various activities. I'm not gonna explain it all, but I will say that the Kingdom has physical borders in the real world as well as several entry points at sea. The area it takes up in the material world is tiny, like the size of Connecticut, but the internal size is fucking massive, like, Eurasia sized, not counting the seas.