The
Sea of Wrecks is a rocky and broken seascape, a vast ship graveyard,
dominated by ravaged ships, jagged rocks, and marine detritus. Below are some of the animals that live there.
Long-Necked Seal
Long-Necked Seals are pinnipeds with a long streamlined body with four powerful flippers. They have an elongated and flexible neck and a long powerful tail. They have a thick layer of blubber and a fine water wicking fur that together keep them both warm and dry. They eat mostly shellfish and small fish but it is not unheard of them to eat sea birds or other creatures if they get close. They use their long flexible necks to probe crags and holes in the sea floor (of which the Sea of Wrecks has many) where food might hide. They are mostly aquatic, but will bask on the rocks and beaches when it is warm out, or when it is mating season. They have strange and complex barking songs (the Inked Mages think that it might be code). They are hunted for their fur, blubber, and their meat. All of the major wrecking crews eat seal meat. They also all do not hunt the pups. Most lamps and torches in the Sea of Wrecks burn thanks to Long-Necked Seal blubber.
Sea Centipede
Sea Centipedes are horrific looking aquatic centipede. They grow anywhere from one to two feet in length, have segmented bodies that are a dark, greenish-black color, and long pale legs. Underwater they swim powerfully like an eel with horizontal undulations. Water will roll off of their body and they will dry in seconds. They have a large set of mandibles and a venomous bite. While a single bite is not deadly, the venom is excreted along with a pheromone that attracts other Sea Centipedes, causing them to swarm over the wound. When not in the ocean they like to hide under rocks and pieces of driftwood. If the internal organs of a Sea Centipede are all mashed together and fermented they make a powerful psychoactive known as ‘bug meat.’ Inked Mages take bug meat to ‘better understand the universe’ and Dragur mix it in their berserker brew.
Arachnopus
Arachnopusi are large amphibious cousins to octopuses. They are larger than their sea based cousins, often growing to an arm span of 30 feet. They have a thick toad-like skin that must stay damp with sea water that is a deep reddish purple with bright blue rings. Eight large eyes ring around the base of their bulbous heads. Eight powerful tentacles with suction cups allow Arachnopusi to walk on land, even upside down, albeit slowly. In the water they are extremely fast using jets of water to propel themselves. They have a black beak that hides no only their mouth but two different glands, one that shoots black ink, the other that shoots webbing. Arachnopusi are known for coating their webs in their ink making them all but invisible in darkness, then dropping on their entangled prey. They are prolific breeders laying dozens of egg sacs at a time, each one with thousands of eggs. Thankfully they have relative short lifespans, the upper limits of which are about five years.
Hippocamp:
Hippocampi are aquatic horse like creatures that are not originally from the Sea of Wrecks. They have the head of a horse, with two front legs that come to great translucent fins, and a long and powerful tail. They general have green-blue scales except for their bellies that are a pale blue. They sometimes have dark blue stripes or patches of gray scales. They live in herds of about twenty members, including foals and are spooked easily. They munch on the abundant see weeds and kelp that grow on the wrecks. The Sahuagin despise them, a mixture of fear and loathing, as the Fin-Folk use Hippocamp riders to hunt down Sahuagin that get to close to their domain. The Hippocampi in the Sea of Wrecks are all feral; either escapes from deep sea Fin-Folk domains not far from the Sea of Wrecks or the descendants of wrecked sea carriages.
Other animals and plants that you may find in the Sea of Wrecks:
Brilliant green and yellow anemone that are squabbling for dominance in the tidal pools, squat ugly fish the color of the rocks, colonies of algae that look like a diminutive copse of palm trees, hairy crabs with tufts of white fur, starfish all the colors of the neon rainbow, slicks of green algae that when dry bloom with small white flowers and smell like a corpse, huge clusters of blue mussels with thin white stripes, pale shells with fractal shapes, sea snails leaving a slimy trail on a wreck, parasitic clusters of barnacles hanging from smashed ships hulls like tumors, jumping limpets that can hop from host to host, fat red blood worms that wriggle now exposed by the waves, cephalopods that scurry into the gaps between submerged rocks, razor clams that pop out of the sands like a switchblade, schools of striped prawns growing fat on plankton, sea roaches that scurry from the rocks when you pick them up, nearly unseen jellyfish with poisonous tentacles, bulbous spiny urchin the colors of a fresh bruise, slow sandcoins that bury into black sands, gray birds that looks like the bastards between a pelican and a pigeon, flocks of flying fish that skip on the crests of waves.
Long-Necked Seal
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| Pinniped is a very fun word to say. |
Long-Necked Seals are pinnipeds with a long streamlined body with four powerful flippers. They have an elongated and flexible neck and a long powerful tail. They have a thick layer of blubber and a fine water wicking fur that together keep them both warm and dry. They eat mostly shellfish and small fish but it is not unheard of them to eat sea birds or other creatures if they get close. They use their long flexible necks to probe crags and holes in the sea floor (of which the Sea of Wrecks has many) where food might hide. They are mostly aquatic, but will bask on the rocks and beaches when it is warm out, or when it is mating season. They have strange and complex barking songs (the Inked Mages think that it might be code). They are hunted for their fur, blubber, and their meat. All of the major wrecking crews eat seal meat. They also all do not hunt the pups. Most lamps and torches in the Sea of Wrecks burn thanks to Long-Necked Seal blubber.
Sea Centipede
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| Everything about this guy is real except the last two sentences. Nature is the best DM. |
Sea Centipedes are horrific looking aquatic centipede. They grow anywhere from one to two feet in length, have segmented bodies that are a dark, greenish-black color, and long pale legs. Underwater they swim powerfully like an eel with horizontal undulations. Water will roll off of their body and they will dry in seconds. They have a large set of mandibles and a venomous bite. While a single bite is not deadly, the venom is excreted along with a pheromone that attracts other Sea Centipedes, causing them to swarm over the wound. When not in the ocean they like to hide under rocks and pieces of driftwood. If the internal organs of a Sea Centipede are all mashed together and fermented they make a powerful psychoactive known as ‘bug meat.’ Inked Mages take bug meat to ‘better understand the universe’ and Dragur mix it in their berserker brew.
Arachnopus
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| Arachnopusi sounds like a knock-off Bond villain |
Arachnopusi are large amphibious cousins to octopuses. They are larger than their sea based cousins, often growing to an arm span of 30 feet. They have a thick toad-like skin that must stay damp with sea water that is a deep reddish purple with bright blue rings. Eight large eyes ring around the base of their bulbous heads. Eight powerful tentacles with suction cups allow Arachnopusi to walk on land, even upside down, albeit slowly. In the water they are extremely fast using jets of water to propel themselves. They have a black beak that hides no only their mouth but two different glands, one that shoots black ink, the other that shoots webbing. Arachnopusi are known for coating their webs in their ink making them all but invisible in darkness, then dropping on their entangled prey. They are prolific breeders laying dozens of egg sacs at a time, each one with thousands of eggs. Thankfully they have relative short lifespans, the upper limits of which are about five years.
Hippocamp:
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| Aqua horse, not the part of your brain. |
Hippocampi are aquatic horse like creatures that are not originally from the Sea of Wrecks. They have the head of a horse, with two front legs that come to great translucent fins, and a long and powerful tail. They general have green-blue scales except for their bellies that are a pale blue. They sometimes have dark blue stripes or patches of gray scales. They live in herds of about twenty members, including foals and are spooked easily. They munch on the abundant see weeds and kelp that grow on the wrecks. The Sahuagin despise them, a mixture of fear and loathing, as the Fin-Folk use Hippocamp riders to hunt down Sahuagin that get to close to their domain. The Hippocampi in the Sea of Wrecks are all feral; either escapes from deep sea Fin-Folk domains not far from the Sea of Wrecks or the descendants of wrecked sea carriages.
Other animals and plants that you may find in the Sea of Wrecks:
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| Tidal Pools are cool as heck. |
Brilliant green and yellow anemone that are squabbling for dominance in the tidal pools, squat ugly fish the color of the rocks, colonies of algae that look like a diminutive copse of palm trees, hairy crabs with tufts of white fur, starfish all the colors of the neon rainbow, slicks of green algae that when dry bloom with small white flowers and smell like a corpse, huge clusters of blue mussels with thin white stripes, pale shells with fractal shapes, sea snails leaving a slimy trail on a wreck, parasitic clusters of barnacles hanging from smashed ships hulls like tumors, jumping limpets that can hop from host to host, fat red blood worms that wriggle now exposed by the waves, cephalopods that scurry into the gaps between submerged rocks, razor clams that pop out of the sands like a switchblade, schools of striped prawns growing fat on plankton, sea roaches that scurry from the rocks when you pick them up, nearly unseen jellyfish with poisonous tentacles, bulbous spiny urchin the colors of a fresh bruise, slow sandcoins that bury into black sands, gray birds that looks like the bastards between a pelican and a pigeon, flocks of flying fish that skip on the crests of waves.
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