Talking fish: When the astrodiods hit and many of the gods died magic on Shark World when into a period of upheveal. One of the best known stories of this is the city of Shardirod. Shardirod was an underwater city built in and around a great quantity of Quartz. They used their magic to create buildings and structures out of quartz to give the whol city a very beuatiful glow as the light was reflected and refracted by the crystals. When the metoeros where coming Dionde, the goddess of magic, was only a meer 400 miles aways when she used her great magic to try to destroy the great falling rocks. She died in the process, but using so much power had an unforseen side effect. Exess magic gathered to gether and started to flow through the water like torpedios. They passed through many things and creatures destroying them. When the hit Shardirod, however, the magic was refracted in the crystals and the spread everywhere. While the magic was weakened so it didn't destroy what it touched the crystals bounced it around so it affected everyone of the city. THey were all changed into fish, talking fish. They wree changed into a thousand different types. THey had all their knowledge but were rather limited as a fish with what they could do. They also become immortal, or close to it.
To this day there is a large school of fish roaming the great oceans. THis school is made up of countless varities. Some are the talking fish of Shardirod, other have just joined it over the years.
Not all the changed people of Shardirod stay with this school. Some of ventured off alone to try to find a way to reverse what has happened to them.