The Inksand Sea - Introduction
Introduction This setting has been cooking in my head for a while and I gotta get it out onto paper lest it overcooks. The Inksand Sea is a high-weirdness nautical setting heavily inspired by Sunless Sea and a plethora of Soulslike games. The players are sailors sailing a sea of darkness, formed from the collective unconscious of those that dream the world into being, where everything forgotten eventually ends. They sail between points of light, form communities, explore strange islands and investigate ruins that emerge from the dark. The key conceit of the setting is that Thoughts form both Light and Reality. The darkness comes in the form of the mutable inksand, which shifts and changes forms from shifty smoke to solid sand when exposed to light and thought. As your light dims and you lose focus of yourself, the literal floor beneath you becomes more shifty and will eventually swallow you into the shadow. Settlements form around both bright sources of light and around those with suff