Chen Pui Droz, translated from Mernic as Dog Head Isle, is a remote and foreboding island cloaked in dense jungle and jagged stone. Few places in the known world are regarded with greater unease, for within its tangled interior dwell the mysterious people known simply as the Dog Heads.

To outsiders, the Dog Heads are strange and deeply unsettling—humanoid in form, yet marked by distinctly beast-like features and mannerisms. From the sparse witnesses of their kind, the name for them is literal. Little is truly understood of their customs, save for their fierce devotion to a shadowed deity worshipped deep within the island’s jungles. Some surviving accounts describe this god as a towering, cat-headed figure draped in darkness and smoke, though whether such tales are literal or born of fear remains uncertain.

The first known foreign encounter came through the explorer Nelso, who initially found the islanders unexpectedly welcoming. Trade was established through gifts, gestures, and patient attempts at communication, and for a brief time relations appeared peaceful. Yet this harmony ended abruptly once news of the foreigners supposedly reached the island’s hidden god.

What followed was swift and violent. Hospitality turned to hostility almost overnight, and Nelso’s expedition was driven back to the shoreline amid bloodshed and panic, several of his men vanishing into the jungle or dying during the retreat.

Years later, the explorer Avgardi attempted another expedition to Chen Pui Droz, only to meet an even darker fate. He and most of his crew never returned. Of the few survivors who staggered back to civilisation, many were driven half-mad by what they had witnessed. Their testimonies spoke of jungle rituals beneath moonlit canopies, towering cat-idols, and Dog Heads who walked upright like men yet barked mournfully into the night as though grieving for something ancient and unseen.

To this day, Chen Pui Droz remains largely unexplored, feared by sailors and scholars alike—a place where myth and reality blur beneath the shadows of the jungle.