>>23019260>>23018318>>22935204Luknight Lore: Flora and Fauna (not that one) of Candy Kingdom
In general, Candy Kingdom is sweet, with more naturally occuring sugar in the plants and animals than in other regions. Crops and meat from livestock all contain a higher sugar content. This is believed to be because of the region's chuubanite, which slowly turns materials around it into sugars and candy, creating mineable underground deposits. This chuubanite-made sugar is ultrafine, actually being light enough to float up with evaporated water and turn the rain and mountain snows slightly sweet. As a result of the sugar everywhere, Luknights have also long ago evolved a very strong resistance to diabetes.
The primary crop of the south river basin province, Lunanora, is a specially bred cold-resistant sugar cane. This particular variant gets its resistance by growing its sugar on the outside as insulation, which ends up making them look like candy canes. This is shaved off by farmer-naitos, and sold as a luxury export as Candy Kingdom's main source of income. Up north, a few of these candy canes can still survive, but it is often too cold even for them to be farmed.
In the southeast province, Walanana, the 'Bunaitos' ranch livestock, mainly domesticated Luboars, and grow onions and herbs for sauces. Cotton candy tumbleweeds and apple trees also grow here, and the 'Bunaitos' who ranch other animals mainly do so for the naturally sweet milk. Candy Kingdom cows' milk also takes on the flavor of what they are fed.
In the southwest province, the economy is overwhelmingly mining based. The region is just too rocky for agriculture of any kind, but thankfully much of the ore is edible candy material. There are also chewy, sweet lichen that resemble gummy candy. These lichen must be trimmed from time to time, as they are known to reanimate corpses of large animals and cause havoc in order to spread itself. The youth are told to be wary of so-called "gummy bears" lurking in the highest regions. Sweet herbs also grow here.