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[Furtuka]

They have no other visible facial features other than a small mouse located on the underside of their head, which can only be seen if you are somehow looking at them from below.

((Typo or do all these guys have rodents living under their chins?))

((Oh man, that would be amazing. Make them into some sort of symbiotic amphibious rodent that keeps their hosts' shells clean, maybe?))

Hmmmm. The crustaceans, the Eida, have a symbiotic relationship with an amphibious furry creature called a mamukma. Mamukma hatch from eggs which are placed inside an Eida's shell shortly after birth. After hatching the mamukma is cared for by the host and will spend almost its entire life on their body. They have a small psychic ability that allows them a primitive form of communication with their hosts through which the host can give them commands. In exchange for this protection, the mamukma keeps the interior and gaps of the Eida's shell clean, and apply their saliva to wounds, which can accelerate healing and prevent infections.

[Detoxicated]

The deserts are populated by sharkworms, named for their fin-like spike on the back of the body, that reaches out of the sand as they travel the evermoving dunes. A mature female specimen can grow to ten meters in length, while the much fiercer males can reach a size of only 6 meters. Their meat is delcious and part of many dishes around the desert regions.

[Dermonster]

There exists in the south eastern corner of the world a race of three feet tall bird people. Having an affinity for Wind elementals, they constructed the Grand City of Air up in the sky. For those who cannot fly, a service of dirgibles run taxi's across the clouds and bring up people from the town below.

Brilliant plumage.

[WillowLuman]

(So, we have bird people, and bird-reptile people. Is there a connection?)

[Dermonster]

*blink*

Uh.

Sure.

The reptile people are kinda like dinosaur people, and mine are gnome harpies.

[Kadzar]

((So I guess that means Thaefar is the city of lightning, then? Or I suppose it could alternatively be the city of earth or metal. Actually, I wanna see what other elemental cities people can think of before we assign its type.))

[Dermonster]

Lightning would be good.

I was thinking the city of steel would be nearby the city of lightning, and in between the two there would be this magitch space program town.

[WillowLuman]

*blink*

Uh.

Sure.

The reptile people are kinda like dinosaur people, and mine are gnome harpies.

And to make it even more complicated, we have lizard people in a desert somewhere.

Hmm, let's put a name to all our races:

Chasm-wall-dwelling dino people: Maraxi
Shore-dwelling crustacean people: Eida

[Flying Dice]

((In a collaborative effort like this, it might be best to leave some ambiguity for mythic past stuff, rather than setting it all in stone. Not totally chaotic, but ambiguous enough.))

For geography, though, it's best to err on this side of specificity. "To the West of the Chasm" is a bit ambiguous, since half of the planet is West of it. Do you mean there's a region of desert adjacent to the western rim, or is the entire Western rim a desert?

Center-west, near enough that the rim at the same latitude is mostly steppes/scrubland. It stretches perhaps a quarter of the way to the Farside, but rises into mountains. Just west of the mountains is a smaller sea, with verdant coastal jungles.

The Earth city exists through the mountains, literally. The major hub is on the seaward side, but a not-insignificant strip of development stretches through a series of tunnels and caverns, culminating in the minor hub on the desert side, which acts primarily as a port for airships and sandskimmers. The mountains themselves are rich in mineral resources. The remnants of an ancient structure project from the eastern edge of the mountains, a construct of stone and iron which extends several hundred meters past the city wall into the desert. Its original purpose is lost to time, but it serves as a convenient dock for airships.

Sandskimmers are desert vessels primarily used by the small oasis clans of the desert, and by the cities which border it; they resemble outrigger sailboats in terms of structure. The desert winds are useful at times, but hardly a constant; most skimmers tend to be family heirlooms, and their operators have a tendency towards bonding wind elementals.

The delicately balanced desert clans continue to exist primarily because they are the first (and often the best) scavengers to reach old ruins uncovered by the shifting sands. Nevertheless, such unpredictable fortunes and limited sources of water keep their numbers low.

[Dermonster]

My bird people are called !@#!%#.

It turns out a bunch of clicking sounds doesn't translate to english that well.

[WillowLuman]

My bird people are called !@#!%#.

It turns out a bunch of clicking sounds doesn't translate to english that well.

Well, what do the humans and/or other races call them?

[Dermonster]

*types random letters*

Klukou

[Detoxicated]

The other races sometimes call the bird people Featherers, a term which can quickly lead to a bar fight as it is quite insulting to the humble bird-people.

The Reptiles of the desert are known as Sizzlak, and have formed alliances with some desert clans, while waging wars with the remaining ones.

[WillowLuman]

Some believe the Maraxi and Klukuo have a common ancestry. Among the two races, opinion of this claim ranges from agreement to deep offense. Still, it remains lost to histroy which of the two invented airships, though both make heavy use of them. Only the Knowledge-Spider knows, though no one has bothered spending a secret to ask it.

[Dermonster]

((((Knowledge spider is totally a Titan-Spider from the dawn of time that's lived long enough to gain intelligence.[/theory]))))