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The Route was an empty land.
Most of the land was forested, only areas around the road weren’t. The people leading the kingdom cut a lot of it down for their building.
There wasn’t many species wanting to hunt people, there weren’t many people either. If there was, they didn’t commonly live long enough for others to see they were there. Many were humanoid though.
By chance, new species appear a lot, some of them resembled what old drawings of humans looked like, but most didn’t. But, lady luck blessed who was alive, fate kept humans on the top of the food chain.
The weather was warm, but it was consistent. Night and day have no schedule. It happens when it happens, and the Mauxam have been content with that.
The Mauxam co-existed with the Moths, even starting families together. In time, the kingdom flourished. The population growing, the elders teaching the young what was and wasn’t safe to eat, and as more species appeared, everyone could teach somebody something.
Going beyond the walls of the kingdom wasn’t a great idea. Their security was strong, and the area outside was unstable with efforts to uncover the road, and the extension of the kingdom needed a lot of supplies for it. Of course; you couldn’t stop people from going outside it though. It was natural curiosity. Natural curiosity that would get hundreds, if not thousands, killed.