The Skysea
In the world of sky sea their sky is an ocean. The "ocean is very very "deep" and houses tons of giant kraken, leviathans other sea baddies. Compared to other worlds this skysea is "low" around 3 or 4 km above ground level. So the SkySea us quite "near".
What keepa thw water up there and not falling down? Nobody knows. Reason is free to be any WotC needs it to be, a Demon Kraken perhaps, or maybe an ancient mechanism, natural planar metaphysics?
The Lands
Lands are the lands. There are no oceans or seas, only the sky sea. This can lead to an interesting desert world. Cities or population or races may vary. Any you need it to be.
The Mountaingates and Rivers.
The tallest mountains reach so high into the sky that they touch the Skysea. Where the land touches the skysea, rivers are created. This turns the mountains and the lands around them the fertile lands, ripe for farming and nature. Rivers dry up a few km away from the mountain base, these are the riverplains. Beyond the riverplains are dryplains, then beyond that desert and wastes.
The rains
Ever period of time (month? Quarter?) The skysea lowers. It drops further by a kilometer and rain starts to fall. When the waters lower, it also rains. When it rains sea monsters reach from the sky and terrrorize the lands below.
Swamps
During the rain, mountainside engulfed by the lowering of the Skysea, turn to swamps. Very damp places bathed in dark essence of the skysea, death by sea monsters stench the land.
Lightaource
Very open, and I have not thought of it yet. Maybe the world is dark, maybe the are lightspota coming from the ocean, bathing the world in luminescent ripples, maybe it could be like blackeeach from skyrim. Another Idea I have is that there are tectonic chasms / vents which light and heat comes from. Or sinkholes in the Land, inside these sinkholes is a light source.
Other possible phenomenon
The depth gates. If you dive deep enough into the skysea, you will find gates to the depths of other planes. Making Skysea the a hub of all other great oceans in the multiverse, accounting for the large number of sea monsters.
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In real life, the oceans are salty because of erosion of the continents. Since the Skysea isn't a basin, it has no reason to collect salts, so you can just call the whole thing fresh water. Likewise, the salts that erode from the mountains (I'm assuming the rivers flow down from the Skysea) will collect in the basins where the rivers end, there should be salt flats out there.
Is everything in the skysea magically suspended, or is it just the water? What I'm getting at is, when a sea creature dies, does it float around forever, or does it fall from the sky?
The lightsources require some thought. In the deep, deep ocean, lights attract predators and prey. So if the lights are on the ground, they would attract the monsters to the ground during the rains. If the lights are in the skysea, the light would be fainter on the ground below, and the sources would likely be the monsters themselves, which would have some serious implications. If the lights are prey lures, then it seems likely that the prey would be those living on the ground below, and the lights draw them together for easier hunting during the rains.
The lights could also be between the ground and skysea, and could be connected to whatever force is holding the skysea up. This would make the bottom of the skysea function more like the surface of an ocean than the bottom, as life congregates near the light. If this is the case, the I see two ways to go with the interaction with the rains. 1) The lights are immobile, when the rains come, the dropping skysea engulfs the lights, making the ground darker and possibly being the cause of the rain itself. 2) The lights are moving objects. When the lights move away, the skysea drops and the rains come. This allows for a more visible cycle, as you would be able to see the rains coming by watching the movement of the lights.
Either way, remember that the light provides not only visibility, but warmth and a means to grow food. If your lights don't do all three, you should provide a source for the missing bits.
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The Skysea
In the world of sky sea their sky is an ocean. The "ocean is very very "deep" and houses tons of giant kraken, leviathans other sea baddies. Compared to other worlds this skysea is "low" around 3 or 4 km above ground level. So the SkySea us quite "near".
What keepa thw water up there and not falling down? Nobody knows. Reason is free to be any WotC needs it to be, a Demon Kraken perhaps, or maybe an ancient mechanism, natural planar metaphysics?
The Lands
Lands are the lands. There are no oceans or seas, only the sky sea. This can lead to an interesting desert world. Cities or population or races may vary. Any you need it to be.
The Mountaingates and Rivers.
The tallest mountains reach so high into the sky that they touch the Skysea. Where the land touches the skysea, rivers are created. This turns the mountains and the lands around them the fertile lands, ripe for farming and nature. Rivers dry up a few km away from the mountain base, these are the riverplains. Beyond the riverplains are dryplains, then beyond that desert and wastes.
The rains
Ever period of time (month? Quarter?) The skysea lowers. It drops further by a kilometer and rain starts to fall. When the waters lower, it also rains. When it rains sea monsters reach from the sky and terrrorize the lands below.
Swamps
During the rain, mountainside engulfed by the lowering of the Skysea, turn to swamps. Very damp places bathed in dark essence of the skysea, death by sea monsters stench the land.
Lightaource
Very open, and I have not thought of it yet. Maybe the world is dark, maybe the are lightspota coming from the ocean, bathing the world in luminescent ripples, maybe it could be like blackeeach from skyrim. Another Idea I have is that there are tectonic chasms / vents which light and heat comes from. Or sinkholes in the Land, inside these sinkholes is a light source.
Other possible phenomenon
The depth gates. If you dive deep enough into the skysea, you will find gates to the depths of other planes. Making Skysea the a hub of all other great oceans in the multiverse, accounting for the large number of sea monsters.
Lightsources could be biological e. g. bioflourescent forests on the foothills or such algae floating on the oceans "surface".
Is the ocean salty? Are the rivers flowing from the ocean or towards the ocean? The rivers have to be sweet water somehow to bring life.
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Is everything in the skysea magically suspended, or is it just the water? What I'm getting at is, when a sea creature dies, does it float around forever, or does it fall from the sky?
The lightsources require some thought. In the deep, deep ocean, lights attract predators and prey. So if the lights are on the ground, they would attract the monsters to the ground during the rains. If the lights are in the skysea, the light would be fainter on the ground below, and the sources would likely be the monsters themselves, which would have some serious implications. If the lights are prey lures, then it seems likely that the prey would be those living on the ground below, and the lights draw them together for easier hunting during the rains.
The lights could also be between the ground and skysea, and could be connected to whatever force is holding the skysea up. This would make the bottom of the skysea function more like the surface of an ocean than the bottom, as life congregates near the light. If this is the case, the I see two ways to go with the interaction with the rains. 1) The lights are immobile, when the rains come, the dropping skysea engulfs the lights, making the ground darker and possibly being the cause of the rain itself. 2) The lights are moving objects. When the lights move away, the skysea drops and the rains come. This allows for a more visible cycle, as you would be able to see the rains coming by watching the movement of the lights.
Either way, remember that the light provides not only visibility, but warmth and a means to grow food. If your lights don't do all three, you should provide a source for the missing bits.
And hey, celebrate. It's by 1000th post!