Otaria Forever: Colour Identities

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­ White

Benalia withstood The Mending, but not before disease, famine & decaying infrastructure took their toll. Townspeople turned to the Church of Serra during the crisis, and the parish experienced a resurgence in popularity. As the colony slowly recovered, an expedition of settlers ventured across the ocean to discover other survivors and spread the Song of Serra. They've founded a colony named Westernesse on the northern end of the continent, and presently have a small number of outposts on their colonial fringes.

The Parish of Westernesse is the most impressive building in the colony, and was the first to be built. It's led by a young priestess named Farah, whose visions of a purified Otaria elevated her to the position of a prophet and spurred colonial expansion. However Farah's visions are hers alone, and as her influence within the colony has grown her invocation of Serra through hymns and sermons has become little more than lip service. The faith of the colonists has never been stronger, but their cause has never been more hollow.

­ Blue

Life underwater was less affected by The Mending, and so the Cephalids weren't acutely affected by the event. However the Riptide Laboratory had long since closed its doors, and the decline of the oceanic ecosystem forced Cephalids to focus on their own survival rather than luxuries like historical record-keeping. Generational succession eventually caused them to become individualistic, only concerned with their own personal welfare and ability. Cephalid cities were eventually built once again, but the creatures who lived there were very different.

A chance discovery of the Laboratory blueprints and research documents while scavenging led to it being rebuilt by Cephalid aristocrats, who continued the research and created the Extraction Machine: a device that removes the souls of living creatures so that they can be used by others. This gave them dominion over other Cephalids, and a class divide was created with a vast chasm in the middle. Now the elite rule over their underclass relatives, who live in fear of the day they encounter the Machine.

­ Black

As Riptide began producing more and more waste by-products from the Extraction Machine, the corpse pits in the cities were soon filled. The Cephalids made use of a nearby trench, and the decaying bodies thrown in there are crushed and pulled under the Otaria landmass at the subduction point. Coastal regions near the underwater cities are beginning to report spotting black clouds underwater, and the swamps around Aphetto are beginning to intensify and expand. Animals who stay in Aphetto too long now end up becoming disfigured in some way, and the earth creeping slowly forward from its coastlines is a dull, lifeless grey.

­ Red

­ Green

­ Colourless

Not everyone who died during The Mending left the plane. Many souls were left behind, the life stolen from themselves and the continent. For years these spirits drifted aimlessly across Otaria, and the gray trails that they left behind them on the formless landscape eventually calcified its barren nature. Over time as Krosa grew once again and as colonists expanded their reach, the dead found themselves situated where the Daru Plains once stood in the south. Robbed of their memories and backed into a corner, their hatred of those who possess what they don't has only grown. That hatred has turned a lifeless region into one that forces lifelessness upon anything caught within it, the drifting of spirits now replaced with the drifting of menacing storms. Otaria's inhabitants call this territory Nothing, and do their best to avoid it.