Notes for Tiponi's Rites: KEEP OUT

My task was two-fold: to investigate why the Un'goro jungle has not fallen prey to the silithid or to the deserts which surround it.

I wish I could tell you it all. I experienced so much, good and bad, and my heart soars with the memories I now cherish. So first I would like to thank you, my kin, for entrusting me with this task.

I saw too many wonders to speak of, so I will tell those tales perhaps another time. Let me cut straight to the core of the matter and tell you my findings.

Firstly, there are strange coloured crystals which litter the crater. They glow with an ambient energy and be classified into four distinct groupings by colour.

(Remember to give out crystal samples).

They are called power crystals and they interact with these strange... machines I've taken to calling crystal pylons.

These pylons are found in the north, east and western mountains. They are absent in the south and that is where the silithid have broken through.

It is my belief that the Earthmother, or her first spirit children, placed these pylons around the perimeter to protect the jungle.

I saw no sign of a ruined pylon to the south, which leads me to believe that whoever put these pylons in place, assumed that the ocean to the south of Un'goro would prove to be an effective barrier.

This leads me to my next point. I believe that the Un'goro jungle is not a desert because the little water that falls on its neighbours flows down into the crater and soaks deep into the ground.

I saw a number of things that support my theory: a waterfall, ruined boats, threshadon carcasses, the strange roots of the trees and the water pools boiling from the volcano.

Un'goro is lush and green because there is an underground water source.

It is also possible that if water deterred the silithid, as is probable due the placement of the missing southern pylon, that the silithid have been impeded in their infestation of Un'goro because they have encountered the Un'goro water source in their burrowing.