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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrath of the Swarm" data-source="post: 1517431" data-attributes="member: 16402">Possible ideas:There have been several new islands created due to underwater volcanos.  The rapid production of these islands (which are mostly barren and slowly developing life) is considered potentially dangerous and indicative of geothermic instability.Only one island is actually lost, and it's mostly legendary, having vanished several thousand years ago.  Stories occasionally surface of someone finding its ruins far beneath the waves, but they're rarely verifable and false when they are.  Suddenly, it is noticed that one of the islands seems to be sinking into the ocean - and it is heavily inhabited.The islands are part of a game being played by incarnations of elemental powers:  Earth-fire against Water.  Each move of this game takes many mortal lifespans, and the game itself is as old as the world.  Unfortunately, several pieces are considered to be lost and are being removed from the game within a short span of time.A religious cult teaches that the islands were formed when the Sun God, Lord of Fire and Life, warred with the treacherously cold Ocean God, Lord of Water and Death.  The Sun God called to the deep fires of the earth, drawing them up from the clutches of the Deep One of the Ocean so that life might flourish upon them in Its light.  When the peoples of certain islands turned away from It and began giving homage to the Deep One, the Sun God permitted their land to sink back beneath the waves.  This story is completely wrong, but that doesn't matter to the cult.  They teach that aquatic creatures are really pale mockeries of life and that eating seafood is an abombinable sin.  Only food grown from the earth, and creatures that eat food grown from the earth, is acceptable.  If the number of people who live off the seas grows greater than those that live off the land, the island will perish.</blockquote>

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