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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8972431" data-attributes="member: 6750306">One general thing to remember about canal cities is that they don't necessarily need to be sitting out in open water, or even be stationary - a canal city sitting in the middle of a huge swamp or salt marsh would have an entirely different feel than one like Venice (especially if you go for an older or less technologically advanced feel), and you could also have an &quot;island&quot; canal city that's not actually anchored to the bottom of the water below it - maybe it actually floats around on a natural or magical current... Having an adventure to try to stop some villain from cutting or blowing up the huge iron cables that temporarily (or permanently) anchor the city in place would be cool.On a different note - what if your canal city wasn't just built on top of older structures from a few decades or centuries earlier in the same city's history? What if it sits on top of an even older city (or cities) that also sank?&nbsp;Random thought - what if the original city was actually built on the sea bottom by an aquatic people who just kept building and building until they hit the surface? And then land-dwellers eventually came and lived in their abandoned (?) city, and as the crushing pressures of the sea depths eventually began crumbling the lowest levels of the aquatic city and the whole thing began slowly sinking over the millennia the land-dwellers simply began building more and more buildings on top of the old ones, thus making the whole thing sink even faster? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure&nbsp; &nbsp; :unsure:"&nbsp; data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />And tying that back to the first thought about the floating city - what if the city wasn't originally built as a floating city? And whatever used to be underneath it is simply gone? (What happened to it? Why does the remaining city float?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8972431, member: 6750306"] One general thing to remember about canal cities is that they don't necessarily need to be sitting out in open water, or even be stationary - a canal city sitting in the middle of a huge swamp or salt marsh would have an entirely different feel than one like Venice (especially if you go for an older or less technologically advanced feel), and you could also have an "island" canal city that's not actually anchored to the bottom of the water below it - maybe it actually floats around on a natural or magical current... Having an adventure to try to stop some villain from cutting or blowing up the huge iron cables that temporarily (or permanently) anchor the city in place would be cool. On a different note - what if your canal city wasn't just built on top of older structures from a few decades or centuries earlier in the same city's history? What if it sits on top of an even older city (or [I][U]cities[/U][/I]) that also sank? Random thought - what if the original city was [I][U]actually built on the sea bottom by an aquatic people[/U] [/I]who just kept building and building until they hit the surface? And then land-dwellers eventually came and lived in their abandoned (?) city, and as the crushing pressures of the sea depths eventually began crumbling the lowest levels of the aquatic city and the whole thing began slowly sinking over the millennia the land-dwellers simply began building more and more buildings on top of the old ones, thus making the whole thing sink[I] even faster[/I]? :unsure: And tying that back to the first thought about the floating city - what if the city wasn't [I]originally built[/I] as a floating city? And whatever used to be underneath it is simply gone? (What happened to it? Why does the remaining city float?) [/QUOTE]

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