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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8033943" data-attributes="member: 5142">Maybe "high elves" re-imagined as "high seas elves" who are uncomfortable on land for too long, and instead prefer following the stars on their navies. (Vaguely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_of_the_Stars" target="_blank">Crest/Banner of the Stars</a>.) The Court of the Stars aren’t just the constellations, but their fey lords who use the stars to reveal the Will of the Heavens. Wood elves did adopt to the land and they find their seafaring cousins strange. Dwarves live on volcanic islands, worshipping the elemental spirits of fire and earth, as well as the sacred minerals that the Earth Father produces.Tiamat is the goddess of the watery abyss and Bahamut is the god of the sky, and their conflicts produce storms. Dragonborn view themselves as children of the storms, and they seek to forge an empire across their archipelago with the aid of their kobold kin.Orcs live in the more extreme arctic climes, and they hunt large oceanic game in their longboats. Killing a leviathan (or whatever) on an expedition is a rite of passage in the adulthood of an orc. Aracokra build cities in the ocean cliffside, fishing much like many seaside birds would. Maybe they raid nearby ships. Maybe they have flightless, aquatic kin who live in arctic climes as well. Changelings could become the first humans. Maybe this is where humans get their sense of being "adaptive" from, but they were a group of changelings who were cursed to remain in a modest shape.Minoan style Minotaurs forging a thalassian kingdom.Gith are air-breathers who adapted to life under the water, by living in submarine cities built from red dragon turtles. There they wage a forgotten war against a race of aberrant cephalopods who seek to enslave the surface dwellers.</blockquote>

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