directstrike | All About Age Island

Age Island is a place where most humans and monsters live in peace together.

Just about every part of life revolves around raising monsters to battle in the arena. Even if people do not raise monsters for battle, they can still make money by offering goods or services to monster breeders, such as building and remodeling barns, selling items that affect monsters, working at the monster Hospital, and many different other jobs that are present on the island.

AGIMA (Age Island Monster Association) regulates most of the activities related to raising monsters. They offer coaches for hire to help train monsters, sparring practice, and set up tournaments for monsters to battle each other. They also arrange expeditions to the ruins for breeders and their monsters.

There are tournaments going on at the arena nearly every week. Most of the time they're minor tournaments, but sometimes they hold special tournaments for rare prizes and the ranking tournaments to increase the winning monster's rank.

Every breeder has a small ranch that has plenty of space for a single monster. The ranch has a house for the breeder, a small barn (it can be remodeled to bigger sizes to hold bigger monsters), and equipment to train monsters. There often is a pond present on the property.

Breeders obtain monsters by reading off of tablets at the shrine. Lower ranked breeders can only read off a few letters, while higher ranked ones can read off even more. The same combination of letters will always generate the same monster. Certain monsters can only be brought home to the breeder's ranch if they've won specific items from special tournaments.

There are quite a few measurements put in place by AGIMA to keep inexperienced breeders from getting over their head with monsters that are too powerful. First, they start off with a small barn that cannot hold larger monsters. Once the breeder gets enough money, they can pay to remodel the barn to have space for larger monsters if they desire. Secondly, breeders starting out can only read off a few letters from a tablet. As they increase in rank with their monsters, they are allowed to read more letters. Many of the stronger monsters require a larger amount of letters to generate. Finally, some monsters can only be generated if the breeder has obtained their items from special tournaments set aside to give them to the winner. There's also some monster breeds that must be found in other ways aside from generating them.

For the most part, humans and monsters live in harmony. However, sometimes wild or stray monsters will attack ranches. Usually they're carrying an item, so perhaps they were stealing from another ranch. Sometimes monsters raised by breeders will bring items to their breeder or run away if their breeder is too harsh. It's possible that the stray monsters are just monsters who wish to bring a present to their breeder or they're violently taking out their anger for their breeder on other ranches.

The ruins are usually full of wild monsters that will attack humans and monsters that explore the area. However, sometimes after they're defeated, the monsters will become more friendly towards the monster that defeated them. The ruins can be a dangerous place and sometimes very strong monsters will take up residence and cause trouble for anyone that happens to go in.

Age Island is not only populated by humans and monsters, but many other creatures as well, such as birds and frogs. It appears to be a lot like Earth, just with the addition of monsters and a society built around their use and presence.