I will check on those links you posted Azelor. Hrmm... A candy biome? Horror biome? Mmmmmmm...
Horror depends on how you define a horrific biome.
I checked the definition on the Cambridge dictionnary just to make sure of the basic elements. : ''an extremely strong feeling of fear and shock, or the frightening and shocking character of something''.
That in mind, Azelor, I don't mind taking the subject further for either the candy one or the horror one, but the first will be hard on me.
let me break my reply in two then...
***Candy biome***
I do not know about the flora, or the ecosystem but I do have several ideas. From the top of mountains could flow a certain water with some floating frosting. One could then gather some frosting for their cookies and cinammon roles.
erm... How about swamps being replaced with thick syrop and having some kind of celerie plant which absorbs the sugar and therefor acts as a giant sugarcan?
Milk would be important as a raw ressources, maybe some milk catcus could be an option in a desert full of dark chocolate, really dark?
***Horror biome***
Fear, shock. How to represent both. It can be something bloody and full of bones but that is so cliche. Maybe something deeper than just first degree fear. I would love to see some concepts in such a biome....
1-Lack of fertility and a heavy curse which would also make women barren, unable to have children. Society in ancient middle east often linked fertility of the soil with fertility of the human race. So being unable to have crops and some child would be really ominous. But how to represent that? A flourishing tree at first glance, but filled with scorched flowers. A cracked and parched earth with every now and then some organic soil, but barely.
2-Deception, disillusion. Having a landscape playing with the hope of people and then crushing it. A beautiful landscape at first glance, but cruel in its struggle. Maybe switch it around and have a desert with some kind of plant or mushroom from which a toxic emanates and causes despair, so as when people see a mirage of a lake they don't go knowing its false, but refusing also to go when a real one is near refusing to believe it could be true. A mix of wealth, but in same time people refuse to take the opportunities because they have been deceived. A combo of desert and lush forests.
3-Imposing and dangerous. A valley with a beautiful forest with supper tall trees, but here and there some holes leading to the abyss lay hidden beneath the branches.