History Characters / CodexEquusMeridia

* CaptainErsatz: He's based on the psychopathic Raiders from the {{Film/MadMax}} film series, with a little extra inspiration from the depraved [[DemonOfHumanOrigin Apostle]] Wyald from [[{{Characters/BerserkAntagonists}} Berserk]] given his personality and having supernatural powers derived from a pact with a diabolical being. He even has Wyald's personal motto as one of his favourite quotes.

** Pillar Shrooms are named as such because they sporate invisible clouds of spores that cannot be seen or felt until they come into contact with a surface - any surface - or are inhaled by living things nearby. Then they germinate and grow within seconds into new millions of tiny new Pillar Shrooms within and without the unfortunate exposed creatures, overruning their bodies and leaving them little more than immobilized pillars covered in fungi growth.

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* KnifeNut: Uses a Divine Bowie-knife as her main close-quarters armament.

** To put it in perspective, even sniffing the most seemingly harmless flower can kill you. By shooting its seeds at you so hard and fast they can blow your head off. And that's one of the few NON-poisonous plant-life on the continent. [[UpToEleven And just about]] [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou everything else]].

-> ''"Welcome to Meridia - where even devils fear to tread."''
--> -- '''Common Meridian Saying''' (confirmed as mostly--and literally--accurate)

Located in the southern hemisphere of Equus, Meridia is the homeland of many sapient races and civilizations such as the Great Kangaroos, and throughout Known History widely considered one of if not ''the'' harshest and most dangerous 'Deathlands' in the world, where even its myriad titles and epithets do not do justice of the sheer lethalness of the southern continent. The sheer inhospitability of Meridia's environment, climate, wildlife and natives maims and kills (or worse) many if not most who come unprepared, and those who not only survive but even thrive, be they plants or animals, and many indigenous and settled beings there become some of the most dangerous people in existence.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She has an aqua-colored, Pony-like mane.

** A [[TooDumbToLive foolish]] [[HawaiianShirtedTourist non-Meridian tourist]] foolishly wandered off the safe zones to go on a free safari, and then tried to pet a very majestic black swan he ran into. He was last seen being torn apart by the entire flock of [[KillerRabbit Meridian Killer Black Swan]].

--> '''Tourist:''' These black swans are so majestic! Why, I can just go and ''[[OhCrap OH]] [[OhMyGods GODS]] [[KillerRabbit IT]] [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge BIT OFF]] [[AnArmyAndALeg MY ARM]] - !!!''

[[folder:Devil Dingo, the Nightmare's Claws]]
!!!'''Character:''' Villainous
!!!'''Alignment:''' Chaotic Evil
!!!'''Type:''' Violent Psychopath, Raider, Mass Murder, Hedonist, Warlock, Psycho for Hire
!!!'''Faction:''' Himself, the Nightmare Kingdom

-> ''"They say the Routback is worse than Hells - but it sure is the Heavens for me!"''

Devil Dingo (his entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-Heroes-and-Villains-28-841213149 here]]) is a Meridian Earth pony who worked for Lord Waking Nightmare, and a particularly vicious and sadistic Raider who clashed with Meridia's Nightmare Breakers team.

* AwesomeAussie: The various Great Kangaroos and their Giant relatives, the Giant Kangaroos, have a greatly in-depth knowledge of Meridia that allow them to survive in such a dangerous place. And then there's the Kangeroos' mother goddess, Marlu, who [[DeityOfHumanOrigin was once one of the First-Age "Ponyfriends"]] and is a badass warrior/survivor of Meridia herself.
* TheApunkalypse: The DeathWorld aspect of Meridia was so terrifying that early settlers who broke instead of dying would up becoming bands of psychotic raiders and cannibalistic reavers who live to pillage, torture, violate, butcher and destroy everyone and everything they encounter, even their once-fellow colonists. They are still a problem in present day, where they threaten travel and civilization from their Meridian Routback territories.

* NothingIsScarier: As the Meridians [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain flatly refuse to talk about]] the '[[NoodleIncident Emu Wars]]', we are left with only the barest of hints as to what the conflicts were like. It appears like the actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War Emu War]] in RealLife, it didn't go very well.

--> -- '''Marlu''', after getting half of her skull seared off and one of her arms blown off her shoulders. She quickly recovered and walloped her stupefied attacker.