Mating season on Boscage 4

After Wet Season on Boscage is mating season on Boscage 4, a dangerous time mostly spent in doors, and only travelers with an abundance of protection dare venture out during this time, which puts armor and weapon traders along with mercenary companies in high demand. It's for this reason that gold is considered useless and communities adopt iron, gun powder, and wood as their new currencies until the dry season begins. The majority of predators and aggressive herbivories com from the World Tree, which is the size of a small continent in terms of it's land mass, with all it's branches and roots that extend farther than physics seems to permit, and when mating season comes along the World Tree's inhabitants need nourishment that only the surface can provide, so becomes a bloody cornucopia for the next four months. It's during wet season that most of Boscage 4's inhabitants use up their stored resources to fend off massive attacks from herds and swarms, or concentrated attacks from apex predators which can challenge an entire city. After mating season is the Dry season on Boscage 4 when absolutely no rain touches Boscage 4, and currency changes to the water standard from the iron, gun powder, and wood standards.