Cosmo's Short Biography

Cosmo is an enthusiastic learner, and a proficient herbalist koala Alpha. He has reddish brown fur, with tufted eyebrows. His eyes are black, and has a dark tied beard. Above his eyes he has dotted markings, and a stripe pattern. Cosmo is clothed in earthly colors; a grass skirt, and wears a ski hat. In his left hand he holds a staff, on the horn- like tip it holds a candle, with a perched small red bird on the end.

"Cosmo the koala Alpha is an expert herbalist. He makes up for his small stature by being very animated and cheerful about everything, and feels that even a small person can have a big personality. Cosmo is a true academic, and loves to study books and do field research. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and their uses, and he's often consulted by other Alphas about threats to the natural world. He acknowledges the spiritual world but prefers to concentrate on things that he can see and touch... and eat. As a mentor to new koalas in Jamaa, Cosmo is friendly and patient with beginners. He's a natural born teacher and loves taking a group of students out into a field to study plants."


Cosmo would be the first to admit that most koalas aren’t very ambitious. And before he came to Jamaa, he seemed to be a fairly typical koala: he spent most of his time in trees, eating leaves. But even then, despite his outward appearance, there was something different about Cosmo. You see, Cosmo understands plants.
Now you might be thinking, “That’s no big deal. Lots of people understand plants. My mom understands plants.”
But Cosmo doesn’t just understand how to make plants grow. He understands what they’re saying — to each other, to animals, and sometimes even to themselves (a lot of plants talk to themselves, because they assume nobody is listening).
As soon as most plants in Jamaa realize Cosmo can communicate with them, they become willing to do some pretty amazing things to help him. They tell him how to mix various natural substances together to create potions with hundreds of uses. They can carry him quickly through the trees, hide him, and even create traps for Phantoms that are undetectable until it’s too late.
Cosmo and Peck are the youngest of the Alphas, and sometimes the others don’t really get their jokes or appreciate their pranks. But there’s one thing Cosmo never jokes about. He has a deep and reverent respect for the power of the natural world; perhaps because he is able to communicate with so much of it.

After all, his powers are so closely tied to plants that when a plant he has talked to dies, some of his powers are crippled for a few minutes.