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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4595282" data-attributes="member: 64209">Sea stars (my biology friend in college forbade me from calling them starfish....cause they're not fish...*shrugs*...eh) are not particularly silly. At least, they're no sillier than squid heads or squid-fish (or some beast with the head of a Dragon-scary, a lion-also sort of scary, and a goat-WHAT???? Really? A scary, scary goat?).  Mythology fills us with silly ideas, but it is in the expression of those ideas that matters. Chimeras (and Illithids and Aboleth) DO scare my players (and me, when I play).  I think starfish, er sea stars, do have a lot of potential: regenerating limbs (a la hydra heads), squidlike, but passive in movement (if not in mind). They remind me of two things: 1. brain bugs from the movie "starship troopers"...kinda like queen fomorians...they're the brains, but they're vulnerable... and 2. Vermicious Knids from Willy Wonka and the Great Glass elevator. They were alien, ate people, and had amorphous geometric forms. I wonder if there couldn't be some perversion/antithesis of the Modrons that could contribute tot the story here. As far as the sea, I think that has a lot of potential....the far realm being mostly "fluid" whether actually the state of fluid (vs. solid or gas) or the other meaning of fluid...changing, mutable. (or both).  This still could fit with my idea (for me anyway...I'm not trying to push it on you guys, but I'll share my thoughts) that the far realm is an organism. The fluid could be like the fluid of blood (which does have solids, such as the cells) while the sea stars, aboleths, kaorti, and others could be other components....biology is complex, and we rarely control our bodies in exactly the way we want.  If you go my "organism" route, the question become whether the sea stars are working in the best interest of the far realms or not. They could even be "beneficial" creatures like when someone has allergies....antigens that try to fight off an unkown threat that's not all that bad, and actually make you feel sick through their actions. If you're not intersted in my motif, I'd love to hear any background/ideas about your star people. Creatures of the stars? HMMMMM. How Cthulhu pun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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