So this idea has been a long time percolating in my brain, and has gone through many developments since it began with a dream... This intro is a bit of a teaser, but I felt it was the proper way to begin XD. This'll perhaps be a little different type of thing (don't I say that all the time?), and I've discussed it with some people already. I really push the dramatic, don't I? >.> Good luck as you read...
Vanikoro
In a primitive land an ancient people hid earth-shattering secrets more ancient still.
Yet even those secrets became forgotten as foreign pressure caused precious heritage to vanish.
In the Second World War, many small islands in the deep Pacific were touched by those who fought for the future of the planet, from Iwo Jima and its neighbors to the paradise of Fiji to Hawai’i, where the violence began.
Many of these islands, borne either of eccentricities of the life-giving coral reefs, or of the fire and lava of their volcanic cores, were so isolated and remote that before the War, they were largely untouched.
On one such island, tropical rain forests spreading and shrouding much of the geography formed by its volcanic caldera, natives have been losing much of their rich cultural heritage to foreign influence begun by a legendary shipwreck centuries past, and expanded by the use of its shores as a base for aircraft in the War effort.
The ancient people now gather about those shores themselves, imports from abroad causing constantly lessening need for the sustenance the deep forest provides in the midst of its native danger.
They gather, and they forget.
They forget their traditions, they forget their languages, they forget their long-held secrets.
As they forget, “local” yet still-foreign governments divide up their forgotten land.
Soon there will be a modern airstrip to support the population.
Soon new settlers, drawn by the development and wealthy enough to leave it all behind, will be brought to this lost paradise.
Yet there is always a first.
One adventurous young woman will bring a small cadre of like-minded, yet perhaps not as strong-willed companions to explore the paradise of a land just purchased from the local government, “owned” for the first time in its history spanning millenia.
The first of many to bring a new culture as ancient cultures fade.
The first to rediscover terrible secrets now otherwise long-forgotten
On the island of Vanikoro