Ideas for a thread about the Fading Seas homebrew found on 1d4chan

-All the different versions and hypothesis for Atlantis.

-Javelin-fishes, a larger version of the real-life needlefish that can jump so high as to impale itself on the belly of a crewmember.

-Leviathan whales whose guts are much larger than their bodies.

-A type of candlefish which already burns like a candle alive and underwater. They like to follow ships and half the crew usually likes them, while the other half swears they are bad omens. Fights and mutinies happened due to this.

-A type of pistol which has a glass tube filled with water instead of a barrel. When you press the trigger, a small trained squid comes out of an opening at the top and shoots ink directly ahead. It has to be fed once a day to remain alive, and twice a day to produce up to five ink discharges. If you give it a certain type of fish, it can shoot venomous ink.

-The Caleuche, from Chilean folklore. A large ghost ship sailing the seas around Chiloé (a small island off the coast of Chile) at night. The Caleuche is said to be a being who is conscious and sentient. The ship appears as a beautiful and bright white sailing ship, with 3 masts of 5 sails each, always full of lights and with the sounds of a party on board, but quickly disappears again, leaving no evidence of its presence. The ghost ship is also known to be able to navigate under water. it is the magic ship that the Warlocks of Chiloé use to have parties and transport their goods. It is also used by the warlocks every three months when they go on a journey to improve their magical abilities.

-"Greenbergs" are floating mangrove trees whose roots are filled with air sacs. Their leaves serve as sails. Over time, debris, algae and even ship hulks are entangled by their root networks, becoming floating islands as rich with life and dangers as any reef.

-Half-dolphin mermaids whose voices work as sonars and can sing sonic bursts at frequencies that can break wood and break a man's bones.

-Living towers emerge from the waters. They slowly undulate and resemble sea anemones. Their tentacles seem to suck the clouds themselves out of the skies, and are so high and long as to be seen from beyond the horizon.

-A skull with two narrow slits instead of occular orbits. If you insert coins inside and ask it something, it will either answer "no" by rattling itself or "yes" by suddenly being upside-down. It is as fragile as a normal skull, but if you break it, the coins won't be inside.

-A swimming anteater using its snout to breathe while submerged. Its fur is silver-colored and very shiny. It seems hungry and thirsty, and its eyes suggest that, if it could talk, it would spin a tale worthy a few bottles of rum. It brings good luck to its owner, as well as the normal set of claws that can disembowel a jaguar.

-A three-meter long sea serpent with a parrot-like beak. It doesn't understand the sounds and words it copies from people, but can reproduce them perfectly. Very useful to transmit messages or singing what it heard at the tavern.

-A migrating tribe of sea giants, which have two snake tails instead of a pair of legs. Excellent whalesmen, they are always willing to provide services, meat, oil and ambergris in exchange for glass beads, and ingots and/or big speartips of brass and bronze.

-The Isonade, of Japanese folklore. Sharks which appear during storms, "fishing" sailors out of their boats with very long and barbed tails that can use like whips and tentacles.

-A sentient wave. It always seeks to move and test its power against anything on its path. If you survive the battering, it will reward you by taking you with it. It has both destroyed ships and rescued castaways.

-A murder of red crows whose beaks are like razor-sharp scissors that open and close sideways. They will descend upon flying fishes, chop and carry off chunks of flesh. Some sailors missing a couple of fingers say that the crows not only remember someone which has harmed them, but will spread his description for all others.

-Taquatu, of South American folklore, is a cannibal giant with a flying invisible canoe. They say it lives in a cave at a mountain, full of the bones of past victims.

-Hand-beaks looks like pelicans, but their beak divides into four parts, the lower mandible is normal, while the upper and side mandibles are long, thin and segmented. An opportunist scavenger, it uses the three mandibles as fingers to grasp whatever it can and store in the lower mandible. It likes carrion, fruit and shiny things.

-The zaraworm resemble a thin leech whose mouth is circled by as many as a dozen eyestalks. Its vision is extremely good, judging distance and speed of flying objects, while the fine hairs in the eyestalks measure the winds. When a prey comes near, it launches a venomous tooth as a dart at the end of a silk string.

-The Circus - A great disc-shaped airship, kept aloft by a combination of levistones, sails and balloons. Its crew is composed of the strange and the bizarre, a mixture of bards, acrobats, alchemists, prostitutes, freaks, storytellers, actors and misfits. They sell entertainment and pleasure, both as private services and as great public shows. Despite the quantity and variety of individuals, they all claim to come from a place called Sundaland, an island that sank as their ancestors escaped into an ark that eventually became the Circus. However, their tales don't quite match each other. Some said that they saw Sundaland cracking and falling into the dark depths. Others retell that their grandfathers no longer knew how long it had been since Sundaland fell. The more you press the issue, the more differences appear. But that is to be expected from Circus crewmembers. They live to entertain, creating illusions greater than life to the public and themselves. Truths and lies are equally recorded and remembered, gossip and secrets from every port from here to Gyangi are brewed into the cauldron that is the Circus hall. The result is a cheap soup as tasty as its ingredients are questionable. The plain truth, delivered without poetry and sensual dances, will cost you money, time and perhaps a relationship or two.

-Be wary of sailors which wears gloves. That means they have throwing urchins. Those are a type of flat sea urchin whose thorns can paralyze you with a mere prick. Very useful for capturing people.

-An iceberg with several masts and sails on top. It appears to have a tribe of Inuits using it to travel. Its blue-colored ice doesn't melt, and it's great to conserve foodstuffs or fishes. Each chunk of ice costs its weight in gold.