Ali'ikai

Ali'ikai (pronounced as Ah-lee 'ee kai) is a small island located in the largest Ocean on Mobius. Only very few people know about it, and an even smaller amount have actually been there.

Geography
Ali'ikai is mostly known for how small and isolated it is. It is around 3,500 miles away from any major continent, and it's size is only about 600 square miles large.

Another defining trait are it's only three mountains. The two mountains connected together in the western region are known as Ailani and Keilani Mountains by the natives. Meanwhile the single mountain on the northern peninsula is known as Nahoa Mountain.

Other than that, the island is tropical and covered in forests with very few predators. Large villages are located generally in the southern peninsula, and smaller ones tend to be scattered around the island. Being tropical, it is always hot and humid year round, no matter what the season, and it rains frequently.

The Chao Island
To the southeast there is a much smaller island that isn't inhabited by the native people, and is instead completely populated by Chao. Thus, giving it the name "Chao Island". It also has the same general geography of Ali'ikai, only it doesn't have any mountains.

Despite being a small distance away from where the majority of villages are located, rarely anyone goes to the island. For some odd reason, whenever most people try to sail to the island, they return with heavily damaged boats without ever setting foot on its shores. Every traveller says that there were too strong of tides and they were forced to turn back. Over the thousands of years the island had existed, only a handful of people made it successfully to the island.

Culture
Ali'ikai's population consists of only Echidnas (save for Chao Island). While they have been isolated from their origins at Angel Island for centuries, they still retain some beliefs and styles that originated there.

Politics/Leadership
The entire island is ruled by one Cheif, which could be either male or female. They aren't any part of Royalty or depend on bloodlines to rule. Instead, they are selected by spiritual leaders who use Soultouch to select an Echidna best to rule. While the inhabitants of Angel Island use Soultouch to find their soulmates, the spiritual leaders of Ali'ikai use it to gain a brief understanding of an individual's personality and balances. Below the main Cheif is the head of each village, and below the head are the individual Echidnas who reside in the villages.

Religion
While the natives don't have any gods that they worship, they have shown that they fear Chaos and most things related to it. However, there is a very wide range of how much the people fear it. For example, there are some people who see Chaos as a fictional creature in fairy tales, while some other people see it as a real monster that can attack at any moment. But in general, there's only a handful of people who don't fear Chaos.

Due to this general fear, the Echidnas of Ali'ikai praise the idea of harmony, peace, and balance. In fact, the Cheif is chosen by how mentally well-rounded they are. Violence is heavily looked down upon in their culture, and aggressive people are outcasted. However, hardly any of the natives know how to fight (since they have no enemy tribes and non-aggressive wildlife), so finding one that does is very rare.

Before Perfect Chaos
4000 years ago, back when Echidna civilization was flourishing, Ali'ikai was an unnamed and uninhabited large mass of land. Seeing as how it was open, the Echidnas of Angel Island claimed the land for their own and made it into a colony.

Other than that, the colony ran normally and smoothly until...

Perfect Chaos and Afterwards
After the disaster that wiped out nearly the entire population of Angel Island, it effected the colony as well. The land all around it was flooded, and it turned such a large landmass into an Ocean, thus leaving what was left of the colony as an island.

Now that they had no contact with Angel Island or any other civilization, the Echidnas believed that the entire world was drowed and that they were the few who were spared. This is what began their fear and hatred of Chaos, and as generations passed, the Echidnas began to develop their own culture and skills. They renamed the island to Ali'ikai, and as the time passed they eventually began to forget the origins of their ideology as it just became natural to them.

Characters who live in/are from Ali'ikai (can be edited by other users)

 * River the Echidna (native)

Trivia

 * Ali'ikai is heavily inspired by the Hawaiian islands. In fact, the name of the island and its mountains are all Hawaiian names.
 * The people fear Chaos, a god of water, and ironically they are surrounded by the largest body of water on the planet.
 * The Chao Island was inspired by my own experiences at Hawaii, since there were all these different types of animals roaming almost everywhere. But to be specific, it's based on "Cat Mountain", a nickname for a small area we found there that was filled with docile stray cats.
 * The Island doesn't have a flag of its own, as there was never much of a reason to make one.