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Re: The merfolk conundrum
I agree with the trade route being the most advantageous to them. They could become an economic power house by providing the sea's bounties and acting as guides.
Though, yeah, the fact of "what can they bring back that wouldn't be ass underwater" is their biggest hurdle.
Re: The merfolk conundrum
(Anonymous) 2024-10-10 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)I could imagine almost a werewolf situation where they have this "civilized" empire but they swim around eating raw fish and sinking ships to let out aggression.
Re: The merfolk conundrum
Re: The merfolk conundrum
(Anonymous) 2024-10-10 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)The fact that bringing things to the ocean isn't a flaw, it's a feature! (Wrt storytelling)
Cracking open a bottle of wine to let it dilute around the room of your under sea home like incense is just like lighting incense. Wearing expensove clothes that won't last under water is just like wearing clothes that won't last on land. You feel me? These mother fuckers could be doing Shein hauls and eating gold leaf pizza with their tithes.
Wealth and domination as synonymous with waste and consumption destruction.
Your undersea dwelling masters keeping their shit from the poors (no mater how much it sucks underwater) as parallel to modern billionaires who want to colonize mars to get away from the filthy poors (mo matter how much it would SUCK on Mars. They don't even have an ionosphere!)
But no, yeah, the fact that it's dumb doesn't mean it isn't realistic.
Re: The merfolk conundrum
I was more thinking about how to make technology last. Yeah the food and signs of wealth works great, but if you want to smelt iron we start having a problem.