Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Sea of Spices - Location Influences Brainstorming

The Boats of the Glen Carrig Weed-Continent/Mini-R'lyeh
Mini Dreamtime Australia
Skull Island/Dino Island
Submerged Air-filled Dome City
Drowned City Ruins - visible from surface
Interzone
The Nameless City
A Black Ziggurat
Gigantic Jungle Cave System
Sorcerer's Tower
Ape Civilization
Scylla
Sea monster graveyard
Monstro - Giant whale that swallows vessels whole a la Pinocchio
Sinbad islands
Necromancer civilization
Miniature cyclops civilization island
Man eating homo floresiensis island
Ridiculously Tall Mountain/Volcano Island (possible landmark for navigation?)
Ancient Faux-Spaniard Ruins (although I originally imagined the Sea of Spices of being pre-Age of Exploration, it struck me to "invert time/history" with the Spaniard-analogue civilization, long since vanished from the world, having attempted to colonize the region in the far distant past)

6 comments:

  1. Well, I happily offer you my Necromancer City, which can be found at Telecanter's, on his "How to host an Empire" post.

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  2. Sounds like a lot adventures & fun. :D

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  3. I know what you're getting at with "Man eating homo floresiensis island", but at first glance it looked like the island itself ate people, and that's awesome.

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  4. O, there's plenty of good real-world stuff to look at:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumbawa

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambora_(culture) DM: "You detect magic about nine feet down in the ash"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marapu

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasola <-- seriously you can't make this stuff up.

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  5. @Kelvingreen:

    An island of man eating hobbits.

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  6. Thanks!

    @ C'nor: Thank you, but I already have something vivid and lurid figured out, CA Smith meets Fulchi... ;)

    @ Kelvingreen: That could be Monstro...

    @ Eric: Those are great! Thank you very much :)

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