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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 1544703" data-attributes="member: 1154">I'd originally intended for it to simply be magically (or divinely) sustained clouds, but I really like the idea of having a portal to hell at the bottom of an ocean, keeping the waters boiling hot and surrounding the coasts in thick fog-like steam. I definitely like the flavor of a portal to hell, but it seems like a portal to the plane of fire would make more sense. Hmm...I thought some more on the cloud skimmers, and here's what I'm thinking. They're both plant and animal. They have a sleek head with eyes and nostrils but no mouth or visibile ears on a prehensile neck. Their main bodies are large and disc shaped, the youngest typically being 5-10 ft in diameter and growing quickly to an adult at 30 ft in diameter. They are blue in coloration and have 4 tentacles arranged around their bodies ending in huge leaf-like appendages which serve the dual purpose of absorbing sunlight while the creature rests for photosynthesis and act as paddles to propel them along the surface of the clouds. Below their main body dangle dozens of tendrils which absorb moisture from the clouds. These tendrils are twice as long as the diameter of the cloud skimmer. They float on the clouds through magic and are capable of holding up any amount of weight, although if overloaded they are unable to move and may even become injured. If they should encounter an area of dead magic they would simply fall through the clouds into the wilderness below and provide a tasty treat to whatever beast should be lucky enough to find them.They are both male and female and reproduce sexually by getting near eachother and letting their tendrils intermingle, although they have an extremely low sex drive. The gestation period is about a year and a half, during which time they are incapable of carrying any load and spend all their time in the sun soaking up sunlight or resting. They can live theoretically forever as long as they are able to get enough sunshine and moisture from the clouds, although there are certain predators, primarily huge birds such as rocs, that prey on them.</blockquote>

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