High Beavers

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High Beavers are one of the races in SotE.

Poem From the Eons



Along each winding watershed,

From thousand streams and rivers fed,

The Beavers build their cities.

A dam, canal, a Beaver's dream,

Spent eons turning deserts green,

Their work is never finished.

Behind great walls of rock and timber,

Craft great deeds with toil and cinder,

On lakes of lapis blue.

Description High Beavers are intelligent beaver folk who are known for their skill as ecosystem engineers. High Beavers are skewed K-selected. They require more calories and protein than humans and have slightly slower gestation, slightly slower maturation, and slightly longer lifespan.

High Beavers are the most specialized of all races in Songs of the Eons. They have no naturally occurring favored biome, and High Beavers are incapable of surviving as hunter gatherers in the wild for very long as they are extremely vulnerable in virtually any non-fluid landscape due to their cumbersome bodies and slow speed. They are the only race considered to be “Completely Civilized,” as they have been dwelling in “civilized” settings since before they even evolved sapience. They only thrive when a naturally occurring environment has been transformed into an artificial one via ecosystem engineering.

Converse to most other races, High Beavers have no naturally occurring preferred biome and instead create their own biomes by settling along rivers and damming them. This results in the water behind the dam rising and forming unique biomes known as "beaver lakes" in which they may thrive. These lakes are then used in extremely intense agriculture similar to ancient Aztec Chinampa agriculture in lake Texcoco. This form of agriculture yields upwards of 100x more yield per acre than land agriculture, allowing High Beaver societies to create self-sufficient agricultural societies behind the walls of their beaver lakes.

Throughout their beaver lakes, High Beavers create a sophisticated, agricultural urban setting accompanied by dikes, causeways, canals, and sluices. High Beaver societies are almost 100 percent urban, making them extremely difficult to dislodge from their beaver lakes, or even successfully raid. However, High Beavers are almost defenseless on open ground and terrible at conventional warfare outside of their spectacular walls. This disparity between lackluster offense and exceptional defense disposes High Beaver societies strongly toward powerful, independent city states similar to the Greek Polis. A High Beaver culture often consists of numerous independent city states throughout a watershed, with warfare being conducted on the various natural waterways and artificial canals.

Beavers rarely utilize roads, and instead will criss cross a landscape with canals, which also serve as logistical gardens within which they cultivate food. Beaver lakes become more and more opulent with time due to the accumulation of fertile silt and clays, making elder beaver lakes extremely powerful and influential. Beavers tend to quarrel with rival beaver lake polises, but are disposed to live very peacefully with other races, so long as their neighbors are neither up stream nor down stream of a given beaver lake. A human city downstream of a beaver lake is ominously referred to as being "dammed." That is to say, it can easily be obliterated should the High Beavers up stream choose to open the dam gates and release a deluge of water. Its common for such cities downstream to become tributaries to beaver lake polises which are upstream.

Ancient legends recount High Beaver civilizations damming rivers as great as the Nile or the Ganges, resulting in Beaver Lakes capable of supporting a continent’s worth of population in great beaver cities the size of the Aral Sea. These legends are known just as much for the deeds of these High Beaver cultures as they are for the inevitable, biblical catastrophes that result when the mighty dams responsible for these cultures at last rupture.

After an elder beaver lake has been destroyed, its common for other races settling the dried up beaver lake to enjoy a massive burst in population. The rich silts and clays which accumulated at the bottom of the beaver lake make for exceptional farmlands for many years. Statistics Note that Humans are a baseline of 100 on most statistics Primary statistics

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