Even though it’s cool that there are mutated land animals in the dark sea, other then humans and sea creatures. But it raises the question, how are there land animals in the dark sea in the first place and how are they surviving despite the lack of food on dark sea islands. The dark sea is a result of the monstrous individual Durza (I ain’t calling him Acheron), the blast he would use that caused the Fracture instantly vaporized BILLIONS, which obviously includes lots of animal life. Anything on the surface is dead.
The only life able to survive were sea creatures, but eventually they would mutate into various enlarged versions of themselves. The only mutated land beings are humans who are a result of staying around in the dark sea for far too long after willingly traveling in there. So that raises the question. How are there land animals in the dark sea?
Edit: Guys! I just made this post to see if there was a lore explanation for some things. I don’t mind mutant animals in the dark sea, I was just curious! That’s all!
How is there plant life which needs light to survive
How is the loamy earth that hasn’t been washed away into the ocean by the rain
Where is all the rain coming from
Why do only humans mutate marine animal characteristics
Yeah, now that you mention it, there is a lot of questions raised by the dark sea and it’s affects. I guess you can argue plants are more stubborn than animal life, but still though. And also why do humans have grotesque marine features, but not mutated animals? Also why marine features? Does all of that magic energy, chaos, like aquatic stuff? I know this game is a fantasy game, but lots of fantasy settings at least have some explanation on why things are the way they are.
it rained for like ~2 millions years on earth once (okay fine not continuously but ig but like, magic and fucking up weather is a known phenomenon, and the dark sea is a super-magically polluted place that continuously expands, so it isnt hard to imagine the weather being permanently fucked in there imo) it isnt hard to imagine if you fucked the weather up enough something similar could happen again, especially when magic is involved, which is known to cause abnormal weathers
magically mutated to live off magical energy probably, plus there are plants that live in near-total darkness so it isnt that impossible to believe imo
i havent the faintest idea
i would say its to adapt with life in the dark sea since but then it wouldnt explain why animals mutated like that so idk either. if u want my 2 cents its because chaos is semi-sentient and it likes themes and such so yk yk
Still. In real life, all that rainwater had to evaporate from somewhere, and it had time to do that.
The AU has had a period of around 800 years during which it rained continuously over 90% of the world. By now, the oceans should’ve long flooded the world. Unless the 5th sea cluster has temperatures in the high thousands which immediately evaporate all the seawater that comes from the Dark sea, and also immensely powerful winds which carry the newly formed clouds across the world.
i mean, there should be some kind of natural selection to the few animals that survived the fracture, so the ones we see and fight are the ones that somehow did not die before we show up with whatever means.
and maybe fish rain exist with how often these damned tornado shows up near the shore so animals never really starved.
That is quite literally impossible. They can’t sustain themselves that way.
Every living animal spends energy. Every bit of movement uses it up. Running, jumping, walking, digesting, eating, breathing, it all costs energy, not to mention all the fighting these predators have to do to even get to eat one another.
This model would require for an ecosystem consisting solely of predators to last for 800 years. The amounts of energy lost in that time are so enormous, the islands the moment Fracture happened would have to be covered in literal hills of predators. These would need one hell of a lifespan as well, seeing how taxing pregnancy is.
It’s an interesting question but is ultimately misguided. One answer I can give is that it’s not important and that that’s not how art works. I’m sure that if you interrogated the existence of magic long enough you would be met with contradictions that are unresolvable. Actually this applies to all art. We have the good sense to answer questions like “the British census doesn’t contain any characters named Sherlock Holmes during so and so time, how is it possible? Maybe he wasn’t registered?” with “Holmes isn’t real, what are you talking about?”
So I guess another answer I could give you is that magic isn’t real, even though that answer offends our generational tendencies to fixate on “lore” when it is convenient for us and ignore narrative entirely. On that note, the most productive thing would be to ask what people tend to fixate on when asking these questions and why (@BlueFighter15 is content to ignore what mutation even is in this world, how it works concretely, why magic should have such reconstructive powers given the lore document’s insistence that its effects are impermanent [to an unspecified degree], what the permanence of the magic’s effects have to do with the permanence of the dark energy in the dark sea, what it means for Chaos to have even created magic, what Vetex means when he says that magic does not tend to have a permanent effect and what that would imply for a “miasma” of dark energy to be sustained for a while, and so on). But I don’t think I have the tools to answer that question yet, except a faint guess that people tend to think of ranges of possibility attached to genres and do not attempt to critique the logic within any individual work on its own. Everything with time.
Right, magic is a representation of “unalienated human creativity” and the “general intellect of humanity.” By “representation,” I mean metaphor, at least in the broadest sense. Metaphors are useful within a particular range of application, after which they collapse. So again, a lot of these questions are kind of like if I said that my girlfriend sits like a cat and you started talking about how a human spine and a cat’s spine have fundamental morphological distinctions and anyway human beings sit down in different situations than cats do. The only complication is that both Vetex and the fans (and artists in postmodern fandom in general) think of art in an ahistorical and disconnected way, so a lot of the historical meanings of these things are lost and what you have instead is a pastiche of disparate cultural artefacts where the historical meaning is insignificant and everything is reduced to tropes (like a meme).