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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5402902" data-attributes="member: 2072">I took the approach that an undersea setting was a big enough stretch for the imagination of some players, so I added a sense of the familiar with some races. I added aquatic varieties of kobolds, orcs, goblins, and the like inspired by real life examples. <a href="http://web.me.com/aeolius/turucambi/Inspirations.html" target="_blank">Inspirations</a>   I also felt the locathah needed a bit "more" so I took inspiration from the shalarin (Sea of Fallen Stars) and gave them a caste system based on body pattern and coloration. I used larger angelfish as inspiration; the colors of the queen, imperator, majestic, and regal angels are quite stunning, plus juveniles have a different coloration than the adults.    I also made them hermaphroditic. In a group of females, one will change into a male. They are also viable with humans, producing the golden-skinned garibaldi.    I've used spells stored in living coral "wands" as well, plus shells used as spell tokens. I've also started work on Nacremancy, magic from the Plane of Pearls. For druids, you could take an example from Neptune grass, some patches of which have lived for 100,000 years. There's got to be power in that!    Have you considered making sea which clings to the inner surface of a hollow world/Dyson Sphere? I'm going that route with Oerth's lesser moon Celene.   Morkoth, kopru, seaholders (eye of the deep), aboleth, and certain undead ( lacedon, etc) come to mind. You might also enjoy researching the likes of feejee mermaids, globsters, Jenny Hanivers, and other cryptological beasties.</blockquote>

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