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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5926475" data-attributes="member: 92511">Hand of Evil took [what I thought was] my best one, the "Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning." Just reeks of all kindsa good (or bad) portent/omen flavor.There is, of course, the Albatross (easily mutable to any rw or fantastic sea bird you want) and the whole "killing one is bad luck [for the whole ship if not just the sailor that killed it]."There is also an alleged superstition that the albatross was the reincarnation (not that they thought in such terms, but that's what it was)/contained the soul of deceased sailors...whether they "died at sea" or just died, is unclear...which obviously leads to the above, "don't kill it, it's one of us, it's bad luck." Could probably get some mileage out of that.And catching them but then releasing them was believed to be a show of "good faith"/inducing "good luck" for the ship.Sirens luring ships to their doom and mermaids (easily transferable to sea elves for a D&D-ish game) rescuing sailor/ships/leading them to shore are well established.Following sea birds' flight to bring a lost ship to land (not entirely reliable, but it was a considered option). Tie that in somehow with a Noah-esque, send out a land bird and if it comes back, you're screwed. If it doesn't (or does come back with some land flora or something), it found land somewhere so follow where it went.Also, the presence of dolphins "playing"/leading you out at the beginning of a journey was a very good omen/luck (not sure if them doing the same upon return had any significance...but why not <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />There was also something, a fairytale or folkloric myth, about a talking fish...but I don't recall the details.I would imagine that there's a TON of material surrounding the whale-hunting industry. I honestly don't know what it might be.But sailors, in general, have always been a rather superstitious lot, so I'm sure there's lotsa good stuff I haven't thought/don't know of.That's all i can come up with at the moment. Good luck.--SD</blockquote>

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