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Question 82 where is the Impossible Sea, source of stagfish leather and prawnskin, located? What is it like? Who rules it?
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Answer 82- The Impossible Sea
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Answer 43c- Imperial Realms
One of the Calledron Empire's provincial realms is the Impossible Sea. This realm exists on the interior of a tetrahedron, and is almost completely covered in ocean.
The majority of landforms on the Impossible Sea consist of vertical, tapered pillars of rock, called
kolonas, shaped like cigars or turnips, that float in the air with their tips just brushing the sea surface. The
kolonas may be 500 yards to 2000 yards tall, and a quarter to a third of that across the diameter of the top. Usually the
kolonas stand alone, but they may be tied into pairs by their inhabitants, and there are a few major settlements made of several bound together into ring or wheel structures.
The inhabitants of the
kolonas live in caves dug into their vertical sides, while the lower part of their tips are covered in hoists and boats in suspension moorings. They spend their days harpooning stagfish for their hides and antlers, or tending prawning pots for the elusive comet prawn. And they have to get back out of the water to their hang moorings quickly when regular swarms of hoomrays come up from the depths for feeding frenzies that roil the sea surface with their sonic blasts.
The sides of the tetrahedron are 500 miles long each. The sea continues smoothly from one face to another, and sailing through the 70° planar angle can be quite disturbing. The whole sea, then, is around 400,000 square miles. Clouds, storms and plagues of stinging insects regularly cross the surface. And in the dead centre, 204 miles above everyone's heads, is another tetrahedron that provides the realm's daylight. A mile on each side, it has stained glass faces showing murals of god-like and angelic creatures which light up in sequence for 12 hours at a time.
In the Impossible Sea, one may also find floating coral-like atolls which slowly grow and birth
kolonas from their surface before again submerging beneath the waves.
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Question 91 [IMPSEA]- Calledron Rule
What is the Calledron outpost here? How does the empire impose its rule?
Question 92 [IMPSEA]- Kolona Culture
What are the cultures of the various
kolona peoples like?
Question 93 [IMPSEA]- Impossible Depths
If a Calledron mage were to go plumbing the depths of the sea, what would they find?
Question 94 [MV][Name 4]- Tetral Realms
The Impossible Sea is one of a skerry of five tetrahedral realms. What are the other four like?