A Brief Guide to the Thalassium
Everyone has heard stories about people swallowed by sea monsters, living there for months or years before miraculously returning to civilization. These stories are all false. Not the part where they survive being swallowed, the part where they come back. The Thalassium This is where old sea monsters dream. This is where the things they swallow go. It is the ocean as seen by a leviathan. For them, the deep is not dark, so you can see as well, alien sensations of distant currents and unfamiliar wavelengths of light translated into anti-colors. Almost-greens, nigh-purples, and not-blues, opposite of pale. You can breathe, of course. Sea monsters don't understand drowning. Sea Monsters They're not really here most of the time. They used to be, long ago, before they've grown ancient and huge. The world was different, then. Richer in life. Now if they are to sustain their massive bodies, they must keep moving at all times. Rest cannot be afforded. The most they can manage is a