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[tunesmithfr]

New Obelisk adoptable base that I’ll be offering during Light’s art-for-fodder thread next week, with my beautiful new Obelisk gal as the model :D

[slaughtercress]

ooh, care to give your thoughts on water's territory in this new map? i've always liked your interpretations!

oh i didn’t see this yesterday. i like it! like i said it’s obvious they don’t know a lot about the deep sea, nor do they seem to understand that deep sea life can’t exist in a deep fresh water environment, but i don’t think that’s a huge problem. it’s just a fictional setting to have fun in, and i’ve always taken what i like from FR and ran with it, rather than splitting hairs. 

i will admit the first thing i thought was how come there are so many vertebrates? but that’s me being really interested in invertebrates. i love whale falls but the first thing that came to mind seeing them is not ooh neat whales, it’s that bone eating worms are flight rising canon now and that’s exciting. i think what i really would have loved would be a hydrothermal vent community represented, but then again the boiling seas south of fire are right there and those are actually salt water, so i can think about riftia over there without needing it in water territory. 

i do like the concept of the sea of 1000 currents being fresh water on top and the deeper you go you breech into a brine pool like environment! still clinging to those starfish because echinoderms cannot live in fresh water, so it has to be at least brackish down lower. brine pools are so toxic tho so i’d have to suspend some disbelief, putting aside the fact you need like 4C temps and ridic pressure to have them form. but the idea of a sea with layers of hard salinity divide is pretty interesting. i’m also super interested in the oxygen minimum zone in the ocean, so throwing a layer of low oxygen on top of a salinity layer is also a fun idea to think about. 

so yeah i guess the trench being super toxic salty the deeper down you go is interesting to think about, esp since i like the concept of the shade being a force that thrives in chaos dragons cannot understand, which i also feel is parallel in bacterial communities that live deep in the ocean sediment without ever needing vertebrates to know they exist to thrive. maybe that’s nonsensical outside of my own head idk. but dragons warping to live in the toxic salty depths or low oxygen layers is interesting to me, so maybe i’ll pivot into that for the trench instead of just deep abyssopelagic ecosystems. 

i am def less interested in the rest of the sea of 1000 currents as i am the trench. i’ve been like hyperfocused on deep ocean ecosystems for several years now, i know less about more shallow environments than i prob should. I’m also less interested in like, regular water culture as i am the potential for deep water isolated cults, so i’m not as excited about the new cities as i probably should be. i love the floating one though! there must be soooo many valella living in between the houses there, blue dragon nudibranchs everywhere. i’m picturing oyster farms dangling below the surface of the water. i wonder if they’d farm sargassum or something? wait i guess if it’s fresh water at the surface there wouldn’t be anything as cool as the ocean neuston but they could farm mussels maybe? idk i just think the way a culture utilizes their available fisheries is very interesting and i want to know how water flight uses theirs!

[tunesmithfr]

You absolutely can have lakes that are salty on the bottom and fresh on the top! Differences in salinity like that are super common in the real ocean and I can name a few examples of fresh-top-salt-bottom lakes-- the issue is that a lot of them are cut off from the sea in some way so the bottom water becomes completely separated from the surface and deoxygenates over time, so if things were to live down there we’d need to have some sort of exchange of salt water-- hopefully a couple of the little straits that are on the new map are deep enough to bring in oxygenated ocean water to the bottom of the SoaTC!

[osiemfr]

hey, show me your one most valuable dragon in your lair. (it can be actual money value, like one with most expensive genes/apparel or sentimental value, your choice)

[tunesmithfr]

my BOY oberon

[spookysnoots-deactivated2021031]

Train acquired  ~

[tunesmithfr]

My favorite part about TRAIN was that I literally saw the auction sale notification six minutes after you bought him, checked it, and you’d already named him, dressed him, and given him his entire scry and bio. and then I checked back less than 12 hours later and he had art.

[osiemfr]

question, what is your favourite single piece of apparel?

[tunesmithfr]

I replied with something different but I do have two honorable mentions (and the combination therof)

[tunesmithfr]

An old pixel commission for Fr Fanart Friday! This was a long-awaited (seriously it took me almost a year to finally get it done) bust for the amazing and ever-patient Betta of their dragon Papaver!