Water covers 95% of the planet's surface.

There are no large landmasses, simply chains of archipeligos.

>>17281215
Considering it covers over 70% of our own, that's not too extreme really.

I like how psychological suggestion has led this into a seafaring setting already purely because of OP's pic.

octopodes have developed enough intelligence to make tools

One of the big industries is Tree Farming. Everybody needs wood. You need good wood so it is essential that you tend to the trees to ensure correct growth patterns and health.

Hard wood is more sought after by warships because it's harder to damage but most cargo haulers prefer pine because it's lighter and so you can use some of that buoyancy to haul more cargo.

Besides humans, there are other sentient races. One of them is a species of large-sized crustaceans that become sentient when colonized by symbiotic fungi, serving as an expanded nervous system.

There are few actual nations or countries, most of society is based off of marauding and piracy. In fact, there are more groups of pirates and mercenaries which act as small armies for the lesser governments than actual national armies/navies/militaries. The majority of young men and women go off to join one of these faux PMCs as a start into the world.

The Liches of this world, the proper ones anyhow, are coated in corals and infested by living deep sea parasites. They still dwell in vast complexes deep beneath the world; from a time when more islands once existed.

>>17281277
are they crab people?
arethey pod people?

The main form of transportation between islands, for normal people, is hot air balloons made from seaweed cloth as wood is scarce and has to be saved for haulers and warships.

>>17281301
This is slow and inefficient, and is generally seen as transport for the poor and desperate.

The top left corner of every map says "here be dragons".

Correctly.

In the small government militaries and mercenary companies, dragoons and cavalry that makes use of large, trained war dolphins are common.

Bards are all properly trained at the Collegium of Mesmerism. Bards rely less on "singing" and more on illusion and psychological manipulation to boost their allies and demoralize their enemies. The Collegium attire is very much like Carnivale and classic Opera had a baby.

It is said that there were more islands once upon a time. But humanity did something so awful that the very universe recoiled in horror. It was not an act of the gods, who are pretty easy to annoy on a bad day, because they would never kill so unartistically.

Some say we fucked around with time travel, other say we tried to become gods and some even say we succeeded and the world as it is resulted from the Ascendants warring upon each other.

Others just see the world that has always been drowned all the way back to The Beginning. But if that is so then why do the fishermen dredge up so many old pots and tools and bones from the sea floor?

atlantis is a lovely little fishing village on one of the southern islands. very nice place. you should go sometime

>>17281277

Another is a species of small fish that develop a shared, distributed consciousness when they form large enough schools. This hivemind is known as the Schoal and is the source of many myths about gods of the sea.

>>17281337
because of them damn octopodes

The Dread Captain Coelacanthus Rex, is the bane of all southern bound trade ships. Rex is a human man who wears a set of bloodied laurels around his head. Rumor has it he's a were-shark or some sort of vampire, and that's the only reason nobody on his crew has mutinied. He's too scary or he's their sire.

It would also explain why he only leaves three people alive on each ship he hits. A young man to be forever scared of the water. An old man to carry on the dreaded tale. And a woman, the most comely of the virgins on the ship; to seek a better life from such monster.

Cliffracers live in abundance throughout the world

There is a perfectly round area in the middle of the ocean somewhere where there is simply no water. Much like the parting of the red sea, but circular. Nobody knows why, and boats do not fall in, they will just kinda sit along the edge. This hole is about a quarter mile in radius, and there is only smooth, dark stone at the bottom, which is miles deeps.

All Crustacean are dicks.

>>17281367
smooth stone and tons and tons of coins

The greatest metallurgic advancement is an ancient thing, known as Lemurian Steel. Items forged of it are a dull grey-black. When submerged in water, Lemurian Steel begins to glow with luminescent patterns that have no rhyme or reason to them.

To make Lemurian Steel, one has to smelt down a blue-black rock found in undersea catacombs. Some people think these items are cursed to return to the sea someday, dragging their wielder back with it.

All invertebrates have long, flowing beards

The Gunnery Forges of Albara Isla are considered to be the premiere place for young marksmen to seek an apprenticeship at. That being said, most graduates cannot afford an Alabaran Bull-Lock Rifle; as such a piece of work takes nearly two decades to create.

Many Graduates, if they survive their time in the world, come back to teach and begin work on their own rifles.

Graduates wear blue long-coats, treated with an oil to be waterproof. Professors wear tricorn hats with shark teeth pins to indicate years of service.

>>17281399
yesssss.... I love this

The seas are comprised almost entirely of drinkable, fresh water... As long as you don't mind the taste.

Clean rain water is highly sought after by brewers as sea water, despite being potable, makes for poor beer.

Captcha: Farming Rookag.

Rookag is a staple food-stuff of the lower classes of the world. It is an underwater growing fruit that comes from the tops of enormous vines of sea-weed.

Magic normally doesn't break the rules of physics as we know it, rather, it works with additional rules to apply the desired effect.

Thus, wizards are the nearest equivalent to scientists and there is a magical equivalent to Mythbusters somewhere, run, ofcourse, by dwarves.

Sea-Lions can speak and have a camp German accent... And they wear lederhosen

>>17281412
You can judge it's ripeness based on bouyancy. If it floats, it's ready to be picked. It is also a darkish green with wavy orange stripes.

When a man dies at sea, his soul is dragged down to the bottom of the world where all his sins coat him like a tar. If the man is able to break free, he becomes an albatross and emerges from the sea unscathed. There are a lot of rumors as to what happens when a man cannot break free from his sins.

Of course, this might all be some old fisher wife's tale used to scare children. Doesn't explain why the Albatross aren't allowed to be shot at.

The Mermen once formed a proud, wealthy and globe-spanning civilization, but they grew decadent and their civilization collapsed under the weight of their upper class. Now the few Mermen that remain fight a bitter war with squid and human hunters, who are after their bones.

The greatest seaborne dangers are in order: Cliffracers, Giant sea spiders, storms, shallow shoals, scylla, sawfish.

In the remote Northen Waters, the ocean is covered with mist all the time. It's impossible to tell whether it's day or night.

Ships who travel there do not return. Nobody knows what's beyond the Northern Waters.

>>17281332
>>17281416
Under a joint-expedition of the Collegium of Mesmerism and the more productive Mages, a device known as the Bathysphere was created. as large and elegantly design and decorated as a ballroom, and equipped with harpoon guns to fight whatever might be in the deepest trenches, the best and brightest went down to where "the water ends, and darkness begins".

When they returned, their hair and flesh had drained of all color. They could not speak. When others tried to assist them off the vessel, the expeditionary remnants attacked.

The records, though mostly stricken to protect the public; at one time indicated that the expeditionary remnants bled little more than pure saline.

>>17281327
Dolphins are born with strong ADD

dolphin still rape people

One of the largest and most powerful nations is founded around what's essentially a tropical paradise, think Hawaii, just a bit bigger. It's people are largely prosperous and happy. It's kept safe in part by the size of it's empire (you have to go through a lot of colonies to get to paradise) and in part because of it's highly professional navy. All men serve in the imperial navy at some point between the ages of 16 and 24, but the core is a group of dedicated volunteers from the inner circle of paradise, utterly dedicated to it's preservation.
In fact I think the country is just called paradise.

>>17281608

Does he have a king/founder named Utopus?

>>17281624
sacrelige! only the glorious octopode master race can use the term "pus" in their names! this means war!
EXTERMINATE!
EEEXTEERMINAAAATE!

>>17281537
wat

vampiric octopodes exist.

>>17281646
true fact dude
dolphins rape people
never trust a dolphin. might save you your maidenhood.

time travel is impossible, only a omnipotent would be able to change this

Axelella scalatella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, is abundant on the sea

>>17281645
>Octopi
>Daleks
>ISeeWhatYouDidThere.jpg

The amount of human male homoxesuals is 25%, the amount of human male heterosexuals is 25%, asexuals males are 25%, bixesuals are 15% and pansexuals are 10%

while being convinced of their racial (or rather special) superiority, the octopodes have little interest in the land areas.
leave unto the leg-beast what is theirs and the ocean to us. some octopus philosopher said.

IE: they are not all evil, hateful pricks

Humans are divided into two groups:
- Monogamous
- Polygamous
They don't mix, as it had led to tons of drama in the past - The polygamous persons are psychologically incapable of not fucking more than one person.

>>17281726
Stupidity or trolling, and irrelevant. I vote retcon.

>>17281726
it begins...

Sea slugs no longer glow. But they have long, thin, human like legs and feet.

>>17281742
Some say this psychological difference is the start of the two cultures slowly becoming different species.

There are fishermen histories about an old dwarven clan that designed a floating city made entirely out of old ships, their goal was to fund portable colonies that could be placed wherever profit could be made (as supply points).

The first one was burned supposedly by a rival company, the second one exploded and the third disappeared the night before it's inauguration.

>>17281742
Monogamous have their rules/prejudices and works like this:
-Choose who you will date wisely, because you will spend the rest of your life with her.
-You NEED to get married
-Sex can only be made after you get married and with the intention of having a kid (making sex because you want to make sex and not caring if you have a kid with this sexual relation doenst count as making sex to have a children).
-You need to have a children before you die.

>>17281751
I second the vote.

Dwarves have blue, translucent skin

>>17281780
Yep, If the guy want's a gay haven we don't make his own?

>>17281777
Make it easier:
There's two kinds of people - married people and virgins. Full stop.
What you do in the bedroom, though, is irrelevant, as long as you do it with your chosen person.

Married people mustn't wear revealing clothing.

>>17281215 The planet's flat. There are 8 giants who stand at the 8 corners of the map they ward off the innumerable evils from beyond the end-falls.

>>17281789
>Yep, If the guy want's a gay haven we don't make his own?
>Statisticly shared (excluding the pansexual and bixesual ones).
>gay haven

Pick one

>>17281777
...Dude, I think you just sort of have a personal hate-on thing for monogamous people.
And are trying to turn this slightly towards an ERPG. Please stop this shit. It doesn't need to come up. Eberron has never gone out of its way to mention how much vagina a certain species likes or how often humans in different cities bone eachother and when.

>>17281794
Also explains why there's only one season.

>>17281800
In this case it actually causes a divide in society.
As long as we don't focus on the fucking aspect, it should be ok.

>>17281780
Thirded, the population would never survive with only 25% breeding population. Motion carried.

>>17281801
I didn't even think about that thank you.

There's animals too dense to swim in water.
Instead, they live in water like we on land, swimming in underwater lakes. (Dunno of what element they actually consist)

>>17281751
>>17281780
>>17281810

OP here, retconned.

>>17281784
Elves are an all female species that can mate with anything, but always produces an elf. That is, unless they mate with a human; then a half-elf is born

Elves don't believe in wearing clothes

Down in the south there's this shallow sea. The bottom of the water is covered in brilliant colors of coral and fish and all kinds of other sea life. Now inside this sea there are these lagoons, strange things, each of them having only three entrances.

They say inside one of them, there's a fourth exit. If you find it, it's supposed to lead to a fantastic treasure. Gold and jewels and naked women and all that.

>>17281827
Sort of an Asari copypaste but with more "Lol sexy wimminz hurr sex". Vote against.

>>17281827
They can also walk on water.

They can swim through the air and build fortresses out of water - Though these fortresses can only be built directly on water and any other species trying to enter will sink.

Dwarves can swim through soil and need take a breath of water once very half hour, which explains them living underground, close to water reservoirs.

>>17281827
Elves don't exist. Neither do dwarves, or any other "regular" fantasy race.

>>17281827
I'm not sure you understand the whole "Not making an ERP setting" thing.

>>17281859
"if two statements contradict, it means that it is ambiguous and shrouded in rumor"

>>17281859
OP here. I'll hold that Elves don't exist since the idea was kind of stupid, but Dwarves have been mentioned several times in the thread already. No need to pointlessly retcon more stuff.

>>17281880
In other words:
Air-swimming elves and soil-swimming dwarves are a rare sight and don't meet humans often.

>>17281792
>Make it easier:
>There's two kinds of people - married people and virgins. Full stop.
>What you do in the bedroom, though, is irrelevant, as long as you do it with your chosen person.
Previous text you would need to have a children and so would not be able to stay virgin after some amount of time.
Also the text said you would need to get married with the first girl you date.

The text I made was based on 2 real things I saw on internet.
On a wikipedia questions part, on a question about condom, one guy answered saying to the other guy not using condom, because he need to choose his date wisely and because he spend the rest of his life with her, he also said that sex can only be made after being married, when you want to have kids.

On another place, another guy said "you need to have childrens", he also said " sex can only be made after being married, when you want to have kids"

>>17281880
So does that we have maybe/maybe not elves and dwarves and orcs etc.?

>>17281827
I SUPPORT THIS!

Also, according to a common, ancient law, every captain is to be considered "king over his ship", as long as he's not on any kingdom's claimed "water space"

Now that i think about it, we need a draw/geographyfag to cartographer itt

Retcon rulings so far:
Human sexuality is irrelevant, and is in the same proportions of gay/bi/straight/asexual as normal.

Elves are not nudist fap-bait.

If you fly far enough into the air (which is possible, as the air becomes too thin at that point), you will find floating islands, populated by humans who use these islands to fly around and use them as base of operations.
These people are afraid of ever falling, as it means certain death (their aircraft that they build on their islands stop working once the air gets too dense), though sometimes there's artifacts of them found on water level.

(Anyone who played Project Nomads knows what I mean)

>>17281827
"HEY GUYS, GUYS I GOT THIS GREAT IDEA GUYS, WHAT IF THERE ARE ELVES, BUT THERE'S NO FAGGOT GUY ELVES, THEY'RE ALL LIKE, TOTALLY HOT ASS CHICKS AND THEY'RE TOTAL NYMPHOS AND THEY ALWAYS WALK AROUND NAKED WITH THEIR TITS AND VAGINA OUT, AND, AND THEY'LL FUCK ANYTHING AWESOME AM I RIGHT GUYS GUYS AM I RIGHT?"
-fapfapfapfapfapfapfapfapfap-

>>17281986
There's a shitton of ways to make that concept non-fappable.
But it's been removed already.

>>17281982
trade with these people is possible, they're actually very friendly, but uncommon.

>>17281982
Their aircraft are mostly of the Da Vinci-esque engineless variety due to the materials at hand and to suit the technology level of the setting.

In the centre of a underwater lagoon there is a mage who was banished from the topside for practicing a form of steam based necromancy, using copper tanks and steam power to return a being to life, with augmented body parts, or simply just the mindless order following. No flesh eating, but merciless once beings, had to be at least sentient. Can use simple tools, the more intelligent in life, the more intelligent in undeath.

>>17281982
>(which is impossible
I derp'd hard.

...On the other hand, the idea of trading with them appeals to me.
But it should be something that happens very rarely and not in regular intervals. The two peoples should know next to nothing about each other.

>>17281992
My good man, you are on the internet. It does not matter how twisted you make the situation; If it involves sex in any capacity, someone, somewhere will fap to it. And that means, by extent, a great deal of people will probably fap to it. Knowing that these people do so, the situation then becomes fap bait.

For example: Anthropomorphic characters in RPGs, and their reputation.

Dwarves can't be religious. Their eyes tend to glaze over when other races speak about their beliefs. Gods and such don't even appear in their fiction, humans think dwarves have a mental defect blocking their imagination, dwarves think humans are a bit loony.

>>17282049
Dwarves literally can't understand the concept of "meaning" behind action - An action either achieves a desired result or it doesn't. So they never bothered to search for the meaning of life and don't know what the hell a religion is supposed to do.
If a human talks about religion, dwarves can't get themselves to take. Originally they did listen - But they thought the humans talked about something really. Now they know better.

Every year, there is a sailing tournament held on the coldest archipelago. The total race spans hundreds of miles, much of it through icy waters. Despite its high crash rate (as of late they have made an effort to make it at least less fatal by keeping on hand rescue ships), many join in the hopes of becoming the King of Sails. The tournament draws men (and occassionally women) from across the world, and sometimes politics are discussed alongside the event.

>>17281794
They all have names from a very old, very nearly incomprehensible language. this language is used to perform magicks of most kinds. The way this works is the mage/sorceror/wildebeest speaks the name of what he wishes to affect, then his desired effect, in this tongue of giants.

>>17282065
Neat.

>>17282049
There are rumours in educated religious circles that perhaps this was from the efforts of their creator-god himself, to create a rational, forward-thinking race focused on the material plane. Or perhaps a rival god intent on removing his enemy's worshippers.

>>17282072
As they don't know any vocabulary besides these few words, the effect can be quite random.
If you say the name of a person, then the word for fire, it might change one of their attributes (in our world it would be raising their strength due to the meaning of fire... but it would be different on that world) or they might burst into flames. Or become immune to fire.

>>17282072
Wildebeest are considered holy and represent wisdom in many circles.
They're still good to eat, though.

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1014

The three human superpowers, their protectorates, and colonies are currently slowly building up in an arms race of warships, balloons, infantry, cavalry, sea-cavalry and artillery over a newly discovered stretch of archipelagos which their sanctioned explorers and privateers have been fighting over for months. It is a land of dense, thick jungles and ancient temples from some (supposedly) long-dead race. Scorpion-like creatures are carved into the hieroglyphics of their formerly mighty Ziggurats.

The Octopodes use colossal squid as both beasts of burden and war machines. They worship the Great Kraken and build inverted pyramids in the sea bed.

>>17281511
>>17281453

The Isle of Baywind, a relatively important port in the west suddenly dissappeared in the night.

An expedition was carried out to find out what had happened. Only a handful of broken houses and corpses were found resting in the middle of the ocean. The corpses were drained of colour and had an expression of horror in their faces.

The schoal strip mine whale carcasses and trade the bones with the Octopodes who use them for harpoon blades.

The Polygamous peoples primarily inhabit the Empire of Paradise and it's dependencies.
The Emporer Paridio XIV has over three hundred children.

The dragons mate once every one hundred years.
They fly through the world (and even under water) and emit a magic that randomly teleports anyone looking at them into a parallel dimension.
That dimension is full of people who got transported by dragon sex.

>>17281855
As most of them live near the coast tunneling inlets into the coastline they are known as d'wharves, literally "builders of Wharves"

>>17282100
>SCP

Get that weakass shit outta here

>>17282284
...No thanks.

The sea floor is made entirely of clay cups.

Can we have ironclads?

There is an icy farming and trade nation in the north in contest with Paradise for new resources, called Skjorinn. Inhabitants are tall and dark-skinned. The College of the North teaches expert swordsmanship to those who can pay for it, and those who have been taught at the College are hired throughout the world as professional duelists and bodyguards. It is not a government institution.

>>17282471
Rare ones would make sense. Like, technology only just being made experimentally.

From time to time children are born with the ability to walk on water. They can also breath in water if they jump correctly into it (-> breaking surface tension to submerge) and are able to see even in complete darkness as long as submerged.

These children are important for the people.

I'm under the impression that this thread needs archiving. Somebody ought to give me a title and description and i'll put it up on suptg

>>17282556
This is a case of one in every few million. There is a religious order that believes their powers have been gifted by devils, and has a sub-order dedicated to hunting them.

>>17281827

Not that anyone with working eyes would lay with an elf. They have pale sickly grey skin with mottled spots of lichen growing on them. Their ears hang long and floppy like that of a jackass. The eyes of an elf are best described as being like the eyes of fish.

>>17282562
That's a thought, we need a title for this thing. Suggestions?
Also, description should be "/tg/ creates a Colonial Era High Fantasy setting."

>>17282585
ReadTheMotherfuckingThreadBeforeYouMotherfuckingPost.gif

>>17282585
Read further. This idea has already been veto'd.
Though we still got elves. They walk on water and swim through air.
(Does that mean that they have trade relations to the sky people?)

>>17282585
Ah shit missed OP saying no elves. Ah well then.

>>17282588
How about Oceanworld. simple and fitting

>>17282596
Pillarworld
It's round and there's people on the ground and up above. It's shaped like a pillar.

>>17282596
>>17282602
do i have a second?

"Hell on Highwater". The world being called Highwater.
Sounds suitable enough.

OP overruling
title: Hell on Highwater
description: /tg/ creates a Colonial Era High Fantasy setting. Highwater an adventure on the seas.

>>17282633
Oh, I wasn't overruling, it was just a suggestion, but okay.

archived

Some people achieved godhood and created massive Dyson sphere- like structure around setting's solar system. Gods power attract some souls of the dead, who come to Sphere and spend rest of eternity there.. So, basically, it's afterlife in same dimension that world of living. Bonus: Sphere is in 95 % sea.

>>17282650
...Could you please repost that?
I don't understand shit.

>>17282656
Um, sorry. You know, just imagine there's a big structure made almost entirely of water, which surrounds setting's planet.

>>17282650
Dyson spheres in a fantasy setting with technology around the late 1700s American Revolution era?

>wat.gif

>>17282656
I think what he's saying is that under the sea there's an enclosed underworld where the souls of the dead return when they die.
Although what's kind of derp is that he suggests it's holding its own star.

>>17282676
Well, the water-walking children with the ability to breath under water would fit perfectly.
They can visit these spheres and talk to the dead.

>>17282682
Yeah. Okay, there's a waterless underworld beneath the sea, that makes sense, but a dyson sphere? I'm thinking no, man. Anyone else with me on this?

>>17282682
>this sphere


So... We got a fuckhuge hole in the sea. We got air-islands. Our planet is flat. The after world is beneath the sea...
Does that mean that underneath the circle is a dyson sphere made of water?
Is that the reason for the hole?
And am I just contradicting myself?

>Dyson spheres
I isn't Dyson sphere per se. It just resemble it.

On remote islands, far removed from civilization, one might find the remnants of might cities. These ruins, made of coral that seems almost grown into the shape of buildings, contain numerous murals and reliefs depicting a human civilization. Scattered murals show the civilization destroyed by some sort of invasion or unknown force; the murals all depict the destruction being caused by thousands of hands pulling people and buildings apart.

>>17282689
That reminds me...
How does this world get light?

But the dyson sphere seems kinda pointless... But I'm also not opposed.

>>17282700
A sun, I'd imagine. Although since the planet doesn't spin there remains only one season.

>>17281794
Once every (century/millenium), eight crocodiles emerge from the ground beneath he hole in the ocean and immediately go to battle the giants. They have been defeated every time so far, but they always cause massive destruction on their paths to the corners of the world.

In the setting,
if anyone has an obsessive interest, or a sexual fetish, they are only comfortable discussing and expressing it around people who share their interests.
This is because a wizard with a lot of power, but bugger all ambition, couldn't be arsed using his power to make any big changes to the world, but nonetheless was irritated by obnoxious faggotry.
Some say the wizard still lives, and watches adventurers.

>>17282748
>Wizard dedicated to destroying aspie That Guys
>Suddenly, setting is Utopia

All magic is really utility fog and all mages can use said ridiculously powerful nano tech because they are born with parasite nanomachines that latch to their inherited engineered DNA strands.

It is said that some gold pieces are cursed, such that when the ships carrying them sink, any soldiers drowned serve as skeletons or ghosts to guard them, and for every 10 years that a treasure remains, guarded by ghosts at the bottom of the ocean, one single coin in the treasure becomes cursed.
Lately, adventurers have been recovering a lot of sunken treasure...

>>17282783
This is silly and doesn't fit the setting. Vote against.

>>17282284

If a person kills a unicorn, squirrel, lizard, or dolphin, the punishment is a horrible, horrible death by their associated gods and allies within 7-14 minutes. 7-14 because time is measured in increments of roughly 7 minutes. Also, the people of the land are terribly clumsy, and upon missing an attack have a 35% chance of injuring themselves instead of their target, making combat unbelievably lethal and random. This leads the civilizations to be pacifistic farmers who cannot hunt any game for fear of missing their target and injuring themselves permanently, and even if they successfully hunted game, their associated gods would quickly enact vengeance upon then for killing their favorite animal. People must choose wisely their course of actions on a daily basis as well, because once they start a task, they must continue doing it for a full time measurement period of 7 minutes, which can cause many people to waste lots of time on menial tasks. Every year, chaos dragons hurtle through the many planes of existence in an elaborate mating ritual, and any caught in the vicinity are swept away with the dragons are brought with them to their next random destination on the planes. Around 30% of the worlds population is caught in the crazy, world rending dragon sex every year, unfortunately. It is truly a wonder civilization exists at all.
We shall call this cruel, horrible world Atlantasia.

>>17282826
But it is original! Something fresh so it is...

>>17282837
All paragraphs of myth and religion convey no useful information if they are too long, or a pain in the ass to read.
This may be why the world is talked of in snippets and shorthand. Books were written, but were useless.

>>17282861
It's not. It's been done before in a bunch of /tg/'s settings and it was silly and out of place and changed too much then too.
Vote against from me as well.

There are giant creatures that walk on the surface of the water in herds, scooping up plankton and fish with their massive jaws. Their long life spans and slow movement speeds causes trees and other vegetation to grow on their bodies over time.
Some of the older members of the species rival large islands in size.

>>17281663
>dolphins rape people

Lurker from /d/; my fetish is that I am in the Eclipse Phase universe and that I was resleeved against my will into a female Aquanaut morph and then endlessly raped by uplifted dolphins.

TLDR: Don't go to /d/ unless you wont wtf fetishes.

How about this: the gods have punished the population for their wicked ways by introducing a potentially fatal allergy to bullshit. As in, lying has a 50% chance of killing you.

>>17282906
I am ok with you not using it in your setting. But how is it "silly and out of place"? Granted, I might be too biased as a fan of scifi more so than fantasy, but I don't see why it can't be done right in the right setting.

People great eachother by cuddling.

If any person becomes a little TOO into any one specific species of animal, that person is suspected of demonic possession, witchcraft, or supernatural trickery, and the person in question is killed.

>>17283024
This includes hypothetical and fantastical races. One race cited often is called the Elves.

>>17282990
(not the person who said it, but wants to respond anyways) If you admit that it doesn't work in this setting, then that's "out of place" explained right there. I personally think it's silly just because of the manner in which it was proposed ("all the wizards are really nanobot users in this 1700s-level-tech era") is ridiculous in context. In a sci-fi story with the proper tech level, it's a diff story.

>>17283024
>>17283024
>>17283024

>a little TOO into any one specific species of animal

But what if I really love the best animal species: Humans?

>>17283048

>In a sci-fi story with the proper tech level, it's a diff story.

Like a medieval tech level planet oblivious to a Eclipse Phase tech level space faring civilization?

The Merfolk farm from Dwarf Fortress?
It exists in this world somewhere.

For those who don't know:
It was a fort in the ocean that boiled the sea, and captured any sealife that was sucked into the vortex. Most sealife captured was butchered for its meat/fat/bones/etc.
But not the Merfolk.
The Merfolk women were kept alive and tethered in small ponds. The water flowed past them, but they were kept in place by their leashes/chains.
Some Merfolk men were kept with them, for fertilization. The rest were butchered.
Along with the Children.
You see, Merfolk bones are extremely valuable - on par with mythical, shit-wrecking beasts that have entire AGES named after them. Merfolk are much easier to farm than said shit-wrecking uberbeasts.
So, the Merfolk - which are intelligent, mind you - were forced to birth children, year after year, to watch their newborns flow a few tiles away, and into a serrated disc trap, that tore off every single one of the child's limbs (more bones that way). There, the children's bodies would rot, and upon rotting, the water would temporarily be drained to allow the dwarves to harvest said children's bones.
Less than 10 meters from where the mothers were chained, they watched their children slip away in the current, be chopped apart, rot, and be harvested to be made into bone crafts. For the rest of said mothers' lives.
Every merfolk woman that passed into the vortex was captured and chained this way, to serve as a factory for valuable merfolk bones.

It was very, very dwarven.

>>17283321
The merfolk would die from the stress.

>>17283367
Nah, all you need to be happy is good food, good drink, a waterfall, some expensive shit to look at, and a truly pimpin' dining room.

'sides, if you knew how the Dwarves raised their own children, you wouldn't find the plight of the Merfolk so upsetting.

>>17283367
True, that's why we keep some of the children to replace the losses.

I think we've had a pretty good thread here guys, aside from the last stretch of it. Add any more at this point if you wish, I'll compile all the good stuff from the archive and have another thread to build on this within the next few days. Thanks, /tg/.

These sapient octopi have advanced to the point of 1960s technology (including nukes), while humanity is still in the dark ages.

>>17283600

But...Humanity though failing at all other forms of tech, have somehow got all things biology and medicine up to 2150's level tech. We now have genetically enhanced soliders that look like that >>17282950 being assisted by rouge sapient octopi in underwater terrorism attacks against the sapient octopi country.

Sirens are mythical, solitary creatures said to be responsible for thick mist and fog.

Some bards can sing in the language of the Sirens and can create Mist/Fog.

>>17283600
>>17283626
...No.

>>17284117
see
>>17282950


/d/ and /tg/ go well together, but let's be sure to lock that hybrid behind fifty tons of steel four hundred feet below us. Also be ready to nuke it if it ever gets free.

Far to the north, the ancient Merfolk kingdom of Kelc'an has collapsed. Its royal house, descendants of the Imperial line, have been thrown out of their palaces and the last king was staked out for the sharks.

The new rulers are the nebulous Committee for the General Interest (CGI), a tribunal of learned commoners. The CGI has granted itself great powers in response to the renewed threat of bone hunters.

A death only results in a ghost if the death occurs over water, but such a death produces a ghost fully 1% of the time. Thus, ghosts are fairly common.

Most birds are aquatic. Some fish fly.

Most large land-based animals are marsupials.

This causes some debate among sages as to whether the intelligent air-breathing races are native to this plane.

Some parts of the ocean are flowing so slowly that they freeze during colder days - There's no seasons, but not every day has the same temperature.

Dropping any substance with an acidity too different from water's into the ocean can result in a chain reaction that causes large extinctions, so the disposal of matter is dealt with under strict regulations