Hereid

[haseri]

Hereid is an ocean covered in islands. I'm going to focus on one of them.

'I hear the oceans around this parts are rumoured to be uncharted and dangerous.'
'That they are.'
'But that's all the are, rumours, aren't they?'
'*smile* Yes..if that is what you choose to believe.'
- A conversation between a foriegn dignitry and Litabu Petenab, 17th Secutary of Fotesor. The foriegner died three days later from numerous Sola bites.

Creatures of the deep
Sola (Leech):Click here
Aqula (Leviathan): Click Here

Angoli

(Made with AutoRealm)

North is the Mapolab Desert, the east has the Harabaj Mountains and the Ilabef Wastes. The west has the Dipaf mountains and the Oqunab forest. The city, the bay and the surrounding foest has the shared name of Fotesor.

Flora and Fauna
Mucema: A crocodile-shaped horse that provides food, clothing and transport for the Docaba.
Bato: A cow that has a boulder of fat on it's back kept on by skin. It has a flat face, forward-facing horns and a short tail. Used for transport by the Bodli.
Salirah: The most common edible plant of the Mapolab desert.
Isan: Most common edible fruit in the Oqunab forest.
Butadid: An edible root found in the Ilabef Wastes
Gabju: Quite like wheat
Jojuf: Not unlike maize
Upoliqu: Very nice tasting tuber plant you can make beer out of.
Qumab: A cross between a lion and a wolf.

The Docaba
Original Discription:The statuesque race. They have bony plates instead of hair. As a people, they are generally good at stealth. They are famous for their opera houses and popular beers. Their government is an aristocracy. They control all under the name Fotesor. Their architecture is based on flat faces and round edges.
Docaba - The City Dwellers
Located: Fotesor
Tech Level: Medieval (Steel weapons, mathematics with zero, stirrups, sailing ships, crossbow, plate and chainmail, castles, Mucema with Mucema-collar for power, amputations, crude prosthetics)
Special Units: Docaba Corsairs (or the Conoso) - Well armoured sailors armed with elegant swords.
Transportation: Sailing, Mucema-and-cart
Appearance: General: Slender humanoid with grey skin. Males have bony plates instead of hair. Used for mating fights in primative times. They biologically can create a hormone that makes them less inclined to be noticed by biological methods.
History: Coming soon

The Ebabafa or The Bodli
Original Description: The race of ox-people. In their culture, torture is a highly prized ability. They worship a single abstract deity who works via assorted servants and messengers. They are the descendents of demons. They live in the uncivilised areas of Angoli. Their architecture is based on triangles and pyramids.
Ebabafa - Barbarians or Bodli - Nomads
Located: All around Angoli
Tech Level: Bronze Age (Wheel, writing, agriculture, horses, carts, sailing rafts, small galleys, metal tipped spears and arrows, bronze swords, leather armor, water wheel, supportive medical treatment and herbs)
Special Units: Qumab Soldiers (The best warriors of the tribe, equipped with the best weapons).
Transportation: Bato Back
Apperance: Around 8' tall. Human with ox features, e.g. males have horns, females have low-set mammeries. Think of an ox, stood up and had some human features put on it.
History: Also coming soon.

Language
The Docaba and the Bodli have a very similar language, called Arad and Hepi respectively. The fact they are similar has lead to belief that they were once merely accents of the same language. (It sounds a lot like random Arabic words, but the Bodli speak with a much lower tone.)

Questions, praises, death threats?

[Darth Grievi]

Ummm... If you wanted an entire world, I think it would do better in the Worlds section. Either that or say that the islands are a part of a large ocean called Hereid. In this board, we're doing just one big patchwork world.

Other than that, it's looking good so far. Can you elaborate on "ox-people" though? Do you mean sapient oxen, Bipedal oxen, or people with ox heads?

[Hyperion]

This is exactly what I'm looking for!


"The vast uncharted waters of Hereid. None dare cross it, for it is rumored to be full of mysterious and dangerous creatures."


Perfect!


btw, I'm preparing to unveil my realm soon! Can it be located at one of the edges of the Hereid ocean?

[haseri]

Ok 3 things:
Darth Greivi:
1) Yeah, changed it to an ocean.
2) They are human-ish, just with ox-like traits, like ox-limbs, a tail and horns. And bigger than a human.
Hyperion:
3) Sure it can, Hyper.

[Hyperion]

Hyper... I like it


Anyway, cool realm. I wonder, do the two races ever have conflicts between one another? What is their architecture like? Do they have domestic animals (The man-cattle for the ox-people perhaps )? What is their language?

[Ashten of the Dark]

Its good, I like the idea of it just being on small place, but... This is a very vague description. Whats the Dominate Species? What kind of food does the people eat or what Inhabits the ground? Just some open things.

[haseri]

Hyper:
1) Yes, there are conflicts. The Docaba see themselves as civilised, living in a city; while the Ebabafa (babarians) live in nomadic tents. The Ebabafa call themselves the Bodli, and see themselves as one with nature; and the Docaba as stuck up snobs.
2) Docabian architecture features a lot of flat faces, but round edges. The Bodli live in tents, with strong emphesis on triangles and pyramids. These shapes are special to them.
3) The Docaba keep are sort of low horse. It's about the size of a fully grown salt-water crocodile (same shape) and it provides transport, food and leather to the Docaba. It's called the Mucema. The Bodli have a similar animal, but it is a huge, hulking beast. Think of you normal everyday cow/bull. Then add enough fat that it looks like a boulder is stuck to its back, thinly covered by skin. Then flatten the face, bring the horns round to the front, shorten the tail and voila, you have the Bato.
4) Language. The Docaba and the Bodli have a very similar language, called Arad and Hepi respectively. The fact they are similar is led to believe that they were once merely accents of the same language. (It sounds a lot like random Arabic words, but the Bodli speak with a much lower tone.)
Ashten:
5) Yes, it's vague because I like filling things up as I go along. Sort of a top-down creator.
6) Both are a dominant species. The Bodli control the most land, but the Docaba have the most built up area.
7) The desert Bodli eat what ever they can find. The forest Bodli eat wild fruit, while those on the wastes eat roots. Despite their scary demeanor and skills in torture, they are strictly vegetarians; both biologicaly and realigiously. The Docaba farm fairly boring things: something quite like corn, something not unlike maize and a very nice tasting tuber plant. They tend to farm Mucema as well.

I think that's everything so far.

EDIT: I added some of this information to the first post. And maybe tomorrow I'll add a crappy Paint sea monster...maybe.

[haseri]

The Sola

Of all the creatures out there...of all the beasts that swim or fly... there are none I fear more then the Sola - Saceme Efefane, Docaba sailor.

Picture:

Name: Sola
Plural: Solec (A Cloud of Solec)
Size; About 6 inches to a foot long.
Intelligence Level: Hive mind
Manner: Violent
Habitat: At the surface of paticularly deep water.
Range: Most of the Hereid ocean.
Animal Type: A cross between a sack of water and a leech.
Food source: Anything with blood that comes into their path.
Density: Huge groups of them dotted around the ocean.
Young: Thousends bord every year. Very few survive.
Defence: See Offence.
Offence: If the victim is out of the water, it leaps out, stings it with a barb of neurotoxin and then sucks the blood out of the paralyzed victim. More or less the same in water, but without it jumping out.
Locomotion: It justs lets the ocean currant take it where it will.
Behaviors: It doesn't think for itself, merely sences what the Cloud is doing.
Uses: Not realy any use, maybe an random defence against sea-bound invaders.
Reaction towards sentients: Attack!

Clouds about 5 foot across litter the Hereid ocean. They are hard to spot, and should a ship run into one, they are attacked by what seem to be transparent leeches leping out of the ocean. From afar it looks as though a heat haze has ingulfed the ship. The odd thing is, the neurotoxin isn't enough to kill something anything bigger that a human (~6' tall). The victim dies of bloodloss.

If you want to get them off, you can spray them with citric acid then sprinkle them with salt. The citric acid detaches them from the skin, and the salt messes with their way back to the ocean, as they use the scent of the salt from the water to find their back, so they die of dehyration.

A Sola that has gorged itself will look like a blood-filled sack. It's colour depends on what it just ingested, of course. It then slowly digests the blood.

Inside the sac is a hair-thin network of neural pathways, which also absorb the blood.

I'd add a link to the OP, but I don't know how to make so it's not the URL.

[Ashten of the Dark]

Name

Like that? Make make the normal URL link, ( You know, The name you want there, then close it with [/Url
Works with pictures I believe

[haseri]

Hmm, didn't really work...

[Ashten of the Dark]

Its hard to explain without it making it into a link.

[Snake]

[*url=PutAddressHere]Wanted,andShortenedName[*/url] without the *'s, but I think you figured out it at some point. Might help other's though.

[haseri]

Ah, finally. Thanks Snake.

[haseri]

Sorry for the double post.
I've just quickly changed some stuff to be more like Asten's nation descriptions. I'll do history at a later date. Tomorrow (if I have time) I'll add another creature of the deep, a bigger one.

[haseri]

The Aqula

'Those things are big...real big...no-ones neva seen all of one before. You can't fit 'em in yer vision, see? By the 'eavens, they move fast though.' Qumabo Nejabaf, deckhand on the Running Pole

Picture:

Name: Aqula
Plural: Almost never used as a plural, so just Aqula
Size: 3285 Cubic Miles
Intelligence Level: Intelligent
Manner: Calm
Habitat: Usually deep trenches
Range: Any of the Hereid Trenches
Animal Type: Maybe a whale, or a cephlapod.
Food source: Huge quantities of deep krill.
Density: Sparce
Young: One born every 100 years to each coupling.
Defence: Very thick skin. Possibly tentacles.
Offence: Several cave-mouth sized mouths.
Locomotion: Uses either it's flippers or tentacles to pulls itself along.
Behaviors: Lives to eat, eats to live.
Uses: No use.
Reaction towards sentients: Worthless

The above statement is quite true. Aqula are very rarely found up near the surface. It is either sick, or lost. Most live in the deepest trenches of the world. This has given them the name from the more enlightened civilisations of 'The Beasts of Hell'

On some of the Hereidian islands, dead, washed-up Aqula are worshipped as gods.

Whose nation wishes to have a dignitry of theirs in the conversation in the OP?