The Moon Lazulia
Salika's Knowledge #403
Lazulia is an icy world and one of the moons of Tarsuros. Silver Age texts speak of an entire water world underneath this ice, a world wide ocean dozens of miles thick, with creatures of almost every type imaginable from across Vreathe and many worlds beyond. The creatures got here by means of portals, created by the Dragon Lord Senget the Wellspring. This is why occasionally a completely unique aquatic creature is found somewhere in the waters of Vreathe but it is the only one that exists.
- Salika
A World of Ice
On first glance the frozen world of Ibora looks better suited to be the domain of Ibora's sister Nivema, the Goddess of Ice, rather than Ibora herself. However, the moon Lazulia predates the birth of Nivema by many, many thousands of years. The world was created in the Dark Days by the god Tazil, Ibora's Father.
When the created worlds were being given to the gods at the time, Ibora took this one. It was cold and icy at the surface, but it also has more water than every other world. Ibora got to work shaping her world and filling it with life. She placed the moon between Izi and Aros. The titanic forces of gravity of these moon combined with the planet tarsuros meant the center of the world would start to heat up, if only slightly. This created a massive ocean. She then got to work filling it with life.
Even though Ibora is long gone, having sacrificed herself to put out the All Fire, other beings have taken lordship over the moon in her place. Sea Elves live here as do the Sengar, as well as more exotic intelligent beings that not even Vreathe has ever seen. A complicated network of alliances keeps the world at relative peace.
A World of Water
Below the ice is miles and miles and miles of endless water. The world is mostly inhabited by various species of fish, but all manner of aether corrupted animals can be found here that live in the water because it would be impossible for them to do so otherwise.
Most of Lazulia's oceans are too deep for most forms of life, but again, aetheric corruption causes strange things to happen, allowing life to exist at ocean depths and pressures that could crush a human into a tiny ball in an instant.
In order to allow Lazulia to have a greater diversity of life, Ibora got the help of Altus, the God of Giants. She had him plant moutnain seeds in the oceans, This created gigantic ranges and underwater plateaus, larger than any the Elder Gods allowed Altus to build on Vreathe.
This creates large million km2 flat plateaus just under the ice where the ocean is only a hundred meters deep and the water pressure is quite manageable, and deep trenches where the ocean is 100 kilometers deep or more, so deep with such high pressures that the water is almost like ice regardless of temperature and life has to dig through it like it's dirt and rock.
Caverns of Lazulia
Under the plateaus of the oceans are large subterranean caverns with breathable air. It is said that Ibora carved these caves herself, wanting to fill her world with life beyond just the oceans. The twisting passages can be quite small at times, and other times, they can be massive open spaces. the ecosystems inside the caverns may or may nor be adapted for living in the water.
Some of these larger caverns are so out of the way and so isolated from the oceans that they are like sandy deserts on vreathe, filled with sand, and heated by the core of the world. Massive glow stones keep these caverns lit. It is said that Ibora took animals from Vreathe's deserts and placed them in there, and these animals are able to continue living just fine.
Other caverns are unlike anything on Vreathe, and are almost indescribable. some caverns are filled with towering fungal forests, while others are filled with gigantic aethercite crystals of every variety imaginable, some that might only be found on this world.
Sea Elves
Unlike the Fire elves of Izi, who only occur on that world, the Sea Elves are a very diverse group of elves that arose in multiple locations at once. When the Silver Age Cataclysm happened, many humans that were near the oceans were bathed on watery aether. This aether was mostly that of Ibora's even though she was long gone from the world of Vreathe by that point. Some were bathed in aether of Engara, Ibora's daughter who inherited her title and power. Others still were bathed in the aether of the Dragon Lord Senget, the Wellspring. There are some slight differences between all of these transformed humans but they all shared one thing in common...
Regardless of how it happened, these sea elves found that they could no longer breathe air. They were forced into the waters of Vreathe. The newly transformed elves that were on research stations on Lazulia raced against the clock as they dug through the ice to reach the water below. They used machinery and magic, anything they could to dig downwards. Many of them suffocated before they could reach the ocean, but many more did survive.
The sea elves that were bathed in the aether of Ibora are almost beings of water. Their deep blue hair will flow and move around even when on the surface. Green and red hair colors are also common. Their skin has turned pale because that no longer matters in the deep oceans. Some have turned more blue or green instead and some are darker than others. Their eyes glow and can change colors, the signals between them are one of the many ways sea elves can communicate under water. They can also echo locate, while others use sign language with their hands.
There are many different Sea Elven civilizations, with as many unique cultures as there are bodies of water on Vreathe. On Lazulia, this is no different, with hundreds of different kingdoms and nations of elves at various depths of the ocean as well as inside the caverns.
The Sengar
Ibora could have created her own human-like race of beings, but, her attempts all ended in failure. Those particular creatures can still be found in the depths of Lazulia's trenches. Because of this, when the Dragon Lord Senget requested to be allowed to create her race here, Ibora was overjoyed as this meant her world would have shepherds to help steer it through history, the same as the humans of Vreathe.
Even after Senget betrayed the gods and joined Tazil in attempting to destroy the World tree which would have ended all of reality, Ibora allowed the Sengar to live on her world. Senget herself regretted joining Tazil during that war, though that decision eventually led to her death.
In the many thousands of years since then, the Sengar spread far beyond Lazulia. They inhabit oceans in almost every world connected to Meliheal The World Tree, and can be found in locations and universes that would otherwise seem completely impossible.
On the World of Vreathe (and a good many others), the Sengar don't have their own civilizations, instead integrating with Sea Elven society. they are among the most powerful beings, and are often monarchs and nobility within Sea Elven Society. On the world of Lazulia, there are tens of millions of Sengar that live in their ocean palaces and cities. They have a complex society that is like any other spawn of a dragon lord: brutal and unforgiving.
Despite this, compared to these other dragon races, there is a certain, refinement among their ways. Duels are still common, but they are held in special arenas instead of in the streets. Also, money rules their decisions as much as raw power does. They are among the richest peoples on any world they live on.
The Sengar are very elegant and elf-like, or perhaps the elves are sengar-like since the sengar came first. The races of Elf and the Sengar are very alike in their ways which is why they can easily integrate into each others societies.
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