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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randomling" data-source="post: 1300907" data-attributes="member: 8432">Interesting cosmology suggestion there Nifft, if a bit... alarming. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> It has lots of potential, certainly! I don't know if I'd be using Ravenloft or Ysgard wholesale (pirates in Ravenloft?) but couple that with the idea of the 7th sea itself... an ethereal sea that moves around... and of course the Bermuda Triangle...I wonder if there's a kind of a... second place. It's always there, a bit like, say, the plane of Shadow. It's very like home, but it's darker, mistier, colder, and the inhabitants slightly different: evil or not, they're certainly scarier.There is, I think, a fixed number of islands. Some big, some small; some permanently in the "shadow" realm and some permanently in the home realm. Most, though, phase between the two realms on an irregular basis. I'm not quite sure how or why, but I think that there's also strange disappearances caused by moving portals to the "shadow" realm. I guess all this comes under "bizarre cosmic setup".Islands probably take a while (a few years, maybe up to a couple of decades) to phase. During this time, the island slowly gets colder... the weather gets mistier and darker... it is visited less, talked of less... the people get nastier and more hostile... and eventually, the island just vanishes into the shadow realm as if it had never been.Next post: religion and stuff. Likely to be sketchy, 'cause my ideas on this are ill-formed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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