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...ns to [[organism]]s of the [[anthropic complex]]. That is, they require [[water]], [[air]] with [[oxygen]], [[temperature]]s around three hundred [[Kelvin]

...mspace]] between the [[rew (Charos)|rew]]s of [[Charos]].[[Category:Moving water]][[Category:Skyfalls|Skyfalls]][[Category:Charos]]

The '''Bay of Strife''' is a body of water on the southern coast of the continent of [[Dachaga]] on the [[world]] of [ ...f waterwheels and similar devices to produce energy from the motion of the water, the city of [[Aqanta]] being particularly notable for its proliferation of

...ater in Jhembaz is through the [[Bottomless Sea]], where it mixes with the water from the other side of the disk and eventually disperses into the air of th

...h plentifully supplied with oil, have few convenient sources of unpolluted water, and have to import it from lands on the other sides of the continents. ...south across the other edge of the land into a large bog of mixed oil and water called the [[Metal Marsh]]. The Rainbow Sea has a single outlet, the [[Gra

...unts of time, perhaps ten or twenty minutes before they must return to the water. (The output of air from their lungs also gives them vocal abilities; some ...on of plants and algae, [[fish]], and other aquatic life such as crayfish, water snails, and various other [[mollusc]]s and [[crustacean]]s. Some sanhvin h

...e veigur's center is the [[Mirror Sea]], a more or less triangular body of water the full depths of which remain unplumbed.

...nd other foliage in the surface of the structure to deflect and absorb the water—or simply by constructing the clay edifice in a dry area. Landshaped ===Water===

...seas in the land half. Aside from the oceans, Arianiga's largest body of water is the [[Alabaster Sea]], connected to the ocean known as the [[Sepulcher]]

..., is considered notably more dangerous than the other two. A patchwork of water and land covers the world, with the land covering approximately 38% of the ...stic transformation. One mester, for example, sees the world covered in [[water]]—except the former seas, which become underwater expanses of [[air]]

...w gulletful. The ganulia tends to stay at or very near the surface of the water, very seldom having any need to submerge. ...ste is expelled through the [[anus]] into the [[cloaca]] and thence to the water outside.

...ch lets it border the [[Rainbow Sea]] while still having access to fresh [[water]] from rivers flowing into the sea from the north. ...nsure that the valley remains well watered, supplemented when necessary by water from the [[glacier]]s in the peaks of the mountains.

...long [[spine (Nalw)|spine]]s. The surface of the world is covered with [[water]], only the spines providing dry land to settle on. Nevertheless, its inha ...e are some hardy [[life form]]s that thrive in the dizzier heights. Fresh water exists in vessels inside the spines, but is often difficult to find or tap,

...on and transportation of nutrients and waste products. Iorges can breathe water as easily as air, and are surprisingly graceful, albeit slow, swimmers. ...e iorx discharge their [[sperm]] and [[ovum|egg]]s, respectively, into the water; the sperm fertilize the eggs externally, and grow first into [[plankton]]i

...errestrial locomotion, though at the cost of losing its ability to breathe water. The word "landhorse" may seem redundant, but is adapted from the name of

...can propel themselves above the substrate for short distances by expelling water at high speeds from their [[siphon]]s, but this is a tiring ability that th ...roper clam takes in water through a tube called an incurrent siphon. The water passes through a comb-like [[gill]] structure called a [[ctenidium]], where

...at]], usually [[circle|circular]] expanses of [[rock]] and [[earth]] and [[water]]. Though there are some [[skew disk|exceptions]], most of the rews line u ...that can sail the dreamseas as conventional [[ship]]s do on [[sea]]s of [[water]], floating in the mist with the surface of the world looming upside-down f

...of course, true blood at all, but a toxin that the snail secretes into the water in response to a perceived threat. This "snailsblood" causes in the flesh

...and a full crew, but as colorless and translucent as [[glass]]... or as [[water]]. Experienced sailors and scholars know that its shape is deceptive; thou ...pearance common to deeplings, looking as if it is itself made of congealed water (which, in a way, it is). It is said to look especially eerie when backlit

...ttered across Sent's surface. Not all of them, however, are surrounded by water. Most of Sent is indeed covered by liquid, but not necessary that particul ...s divided into so many small islands, isolated from each other not only by water but in many cases by liquids more difficult to traverse, has made trade and

...by a large body of water called the [[Central Sea]]; other major bodies of water include the [[Devil Sea]] that takes up the southwest corner of the world, ...cation, altering themselves in elaborate ways. They have some link with [[water]].

...and falling in their respective directions, possibly leading to a body of water extending beyond the edge of the disk called an [[outwick]]. ...to [[buoyancy|float]] on their interplane as on the surface of a [[body of water]]. There are whole biosystems of creatures collectively called [[oneiropla

...ther [[terrain]] features. About 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water; the land is traditionally grouped into six or seven [[continent]]s, depend ...composed of carbon dioxide and other trace constituents. A fair amount of water vapor is also suspended in the atmosphere, making up on average about one p

.... However, the large-scale terraforming consisted mostly of just adding [[water]] and [[atmosphere]], with little reshaping of the existing [[terrain]]. T ...ze, however, the regions do differ in the relative proportions of land and water they contain. Each region is governed by a [[regional council]], headed by

...cloud]]s form—though clouds of methane and [[ammonia]] rather than [[water]]. Many organisms here have various ways of "seeing" through the cloud cov ...strial [[chemistry]]—it gets its name from its relative abundance of water—it is among those with the most strange and alien [[life form|life]],

...for him to have shoes as his bane (because his shoes lost traction on the water), or even, say, movie posters, if he happened to be looking at a movie post

...flowing directly into basins in their homes. (This ready availability of water has given Xxere a reputation as one of the ''cleanest'' cities in Jhembaz, ...[[Enchantment]]s are put in place at these apertures to prevent the lake's water from cascading through, creating instead a [[naroplasm|naroplastic]] surfac

...ry, most of Taumury is flat and [[marsh]]y, an expanse of mud and stagnant water broken by the occasional copse or hillock. The [[Sauven River]] flows lazi ...forest with an eerie reputation. Taumury also sports many bodies of open water among the vast fenland, the largest of which is the [[Mares' Lake]] in the

...ce, has a lot of fire and lava in its dungeons; the [[Blue Ward]] has many water areas; the [[Green Ward]] is full of [[plant]] life (much of it [[carnivore ...]]s, and the [[Madman's Canal]] through an [[enchantment]] controlling the water flow.) Four main gates lead into the city from the land side, named after

A slim majority of the surface of Curcalen is covered by water. Most of the land is clumped into four large continents that cover most of

...legs, the gills are feathery appendages that extract [[oxygen]] from the [[water]] flowing through them. Although there are two pairs of gills in the stern ...ly small species notable for its ability to survive for some time out of [[water]] and its habit of venturing onto land to hunt.

...t or other materials that constitute the "ground" (or, in some cases, with water or other fluids). The ground doesn't necessarily fill exactly half of the ...ve valuable minerals, and have been heavily mined. Others are filled with water that is piped into eidopoles that lack sufficient sources of their own. St

...are creations of the [[Bathybius]], the vast layer of [[ellogy|ellogous]] water that occupies the deepest parts of [[Dadauar]]'s oceans. In fact, more tha

...]], [[magical flight]], and the ability to [[transmute]] themselves into [[water]]. ...ally enjoy [[swimming]], and often live near [[lake]]s and other bodies of water, or, if they can afford it, install [[swimming pool|bathing pool]]s near th

...s of water are large enough to merit special mention. The largest body of water on Mount Yun is [[Lake Thu]], located in a depression on the side of the mo

...g out cigar smoke composes true [[effumation]], or taking up a mouthful of water and spitting it out [[sipation]]. (Needless to say, this fire-spitting is

...r, Ufmarkt's oceans come in two kinds, those of magma and those of boiling water, and its continents too are covered in flame and molten rock. For that mat ...veigur, four of lava and four of boiling water, though again three of the water oceans seem to have their origin in a single ocean divided by lavamasses, s

...low sea level rather than the earth of elsewhere. Actually, the earth and water displaced by the underground and underwater parts of the buildings have sli

...ot quite as large, containing a significant amount of ice (not necessarily water ice) in their composition, as well as some rock. Planets of this latter cl ...p of their clouds. Planets dominated by ammonia clouds are in Class I, by water clouds in Class II, by alkali metals and carbon monoxide in Class IV, and b

...me temperatures and high pressures and go for long periods without food or water.

...ted, each one separated from the others by tens of [[meter|kilometer]]s of water, and each with very different [[terrain]]s and [[ecosystem]]s. Around the ...halelike beasts called [[icar]]s may still lurk somewhere deep beneath the water's surface. But even there, most of the great beasts that once roamed Mahim

...ity's center, take their name from the plentiful [[stream]]s and [[spring (water)|spring]]s in the area, including a couple of hot springs; they have a repu ...lly in the second partitioning, while the Springs contain many blocks with water-related names. In all, Koval contains 220 blocks in the first partitioning

...he form of a (usually) tiny capsule which can then be distributed by wind, water, or fauna, among other methods. These germinal capsules are often called [ ...ut that can be removed through a process of soaking and leaching them in [[water]]. Herbivorous and [[omnivory|omnivorous]] folks therefore may eat a wide

...tem of [[root]]s below ground, that anchors the plant in place and draws [[water]] and [[mineral]]s from the soil, and [[stem]]s and [[leaf|leave]]s above g Though most plants get by only on sunlight, [[air]], water, and minerals from the soil, some plants do augment their nutritional intak

...serve as individual rooms and residences. Labyrithine networks of air- or water-filled ducts connect the living organs, serving as passages between them. ...er oceans has a slightly different chemical consistency—they are all water, but with different amounts of various salts and other solutes.

...ging in a dedicant focused on plants, or on some specific plant in need of water. The fact that such scenarios may put dedicants in direct conflict with ea

...s that are fully opaque are impenetrable to it. They travel through clear water as easily as through air, and are almost as likely to be found underwater a

...largest known species is the [[whale gry]], though this is confined to the water; the largest terrestrial species is the [[bark gry]]. The smallest species

...ten associated with a small explosion of bubbles if cast underwater, or of water droplets if cast in air. In [[Calian]], the object shimmers with a green h

...]]s are alive, and almost anyone would agree that [[rock]]s and drops of [[water]] are not, but for some objects the matter is less clear cut: [[virus]]es h ...lso met by objects that are not normally considered alive. Rivers take in water that could be considered their nutrients. Simple computer viruses can repr

...of bubbles, pervading Diddu's seas and oceans—though swiftly running water seems to be free of them, as do a few scattered lakes. Despite their diffe

Discounting inland [[body of water|bodies of water]] the size of the [[Sea of Reeds]] or smaller, the supercontinent is topolo ...ls of Ranthis|preponderance of canals]]. [[Canal]]s filled with flowing [[water]] mostly take the place of [[road]]s on this world, connecting the [[city|c

...air may be easy to survive in (as long as one brought a supply of food and water), whereas one associated with stone may be made of solid rock and impossibl ...ater, or air on the other, and those containing water on one plane contain water on the other; it often goes deeper than that, however, such that correspond

...supplies power to give the buildings of Tegn convenient light and running water and other liquids, and other amenities not often found elsewhere on Sent.

...worlds far below. At two points along the edge of the disk, a curtain of water rises up, the result of a [[skyfall]] on the opposite side of the disk. Th ...the [[Golden Sea]], on the western coast of Avelax, is the largest body of water, aside from the Northern Sea, to border only a single continent.

About sixty percent of Varra's surface is covered by water. The land can be divided roughly into three unequal parts. One, comprisin

...them, often lean toward dealing with aquatic beasts, and some Sa'ai can [[water breathing|breathe underwater]], or [[empowerment|grant others the ability]]

The substance that makes up the screaming rain is not anything resembling water. It seems to be some kind of modifed soulstuff, and has deleterious effect

...of [[knowledge]]; [[Iken]], goddess of [[crocodile]]s; [[Ke'i]], god of [[water]]; [[Mur]], epicene god of the wild; [[Nuur]], god of civilization and soci

...ransparency|transparent]] substance, visually indistinguishable from the [[water]] above it except for a slight difference in [[refraction|refractivity]], w ...ts [[mass]] is made up of a [[protoplasm]]al matrix consisting mostly of [[water]], with numerous embedded [[protein]]s that give it its gelatine consistenc

...order of size, the [[Trade Commission]], the [[Justice Commission]], the [[Water Commission]], the [[Intelligence Commission]], the [[Education Commission]]

...rm|living things]]; or they may agitate [[fluid]]s and cause [[air]] and [[water]] [[current]]s; or they may generate an [[electric charge]] in the air. Mo

* '''Blue''': A reaction to prolonged exposure to [[water]], either from immersion or from [[precipitation]]. The change takes about

...l exists, the enchantments placed on it back then still keeping it free of water after all these years, even if it never did extend all the way under the [[

...trial planets, the surface of Meptus is largely covered by [[ocean]]s of [[water]], with most of the land being in [[continent]]s that rise above the seas.

...teau with little foliage nearby save for a few stunted shrubs; the nearest water source is the [[Leidi River]] that meanders below at the edge of the platea

...lometers]] in length but only about 1600 kilometers wide. Surrounded by [[water]] on all sides except the [[southeast]], it is a major maritime power; Djar ...n settling this land called it "Han D'Jar a Vin", "Land of [[Bird]]s and [[Water]]", after two notable things they found plentiful here that were much scarc

.... Other elements are made up of various combinations of humors; a xuat of water, for instance, contains one quantum of each humor, while a xuat of [[bloods

...]]s consider it a separate sea, and there is a third (or fourth) [[body of water]], [[Lake Gamidrion]], that some opine qualifies by its size as a proper se

...ale]] contains the [[Crystal Sea]], by far Ñanama's largest body of water; and the [[Bestelek]] is somewhat wilder and less densely populated than th

..., the details varying by region. In some areas, violators are doused with water; in others their mouths are taped shut; in still others, they are dressed u

...t expanse of colored mist evokes an image of the similarly flat expanse of water in the sea. However, there's more to it than that; there are those who [[s

...ection to the eidopoles. The fact that all of these connections involve [[water]] (though the sewers perhaps somewhat tenuously) has not been lost on schol

...0;/}}) is a [[landmass]] separate from any other landmasses or bodies of [[water]] or other [[liquid]], instead surrounded on all sides (including top and b

..., and thriving as well in bodies of [[blood]] or other body fluids as of [[water]].

...umber of semiaquatic creatures that spend much of their time in the frigid water but come up onto the land to rest or breed, such as the [[walrus]], the [[t

...f it desires, leave victims inside itself for long periods without food or water, saving them for its time of need or simply keeping them prisoner.

...hort of miraculous. Salvage-men somehow thrive even in arid deserts where water seems impossible to come by, and in frigid wastes where it seems they shoul

...heir forebears and obscure their origins. On a wolk amply provided with [[water]] and appropriate [[chemical]]s, it's even possible that [[abiogenesis|life

...sopping wet shade. In each case, the clothing and accouterments, even the water, are technically part of the shade, not separate objects. In some cases, i

...en in barren terrains where it may seem impossible to find enough food and water to subsist on, skilled landworkers can easily survive. Other landworkers,

...is mostly covered by[[ocean]], with a few mountainous islands breaking the water's surface. These islands are mostly [[metal]]lic, primarily of [[density|d

...ve plenty of each, with about sixty-five [[percent]] of Riigh covered with water, and about fifty-five percent of Aghn. Riigh's land is traditionally divid

...osition]] is not. The outer layers of Oe are dominated by [[cloud]]s of [[water]], tinted yellow by [[sulfur]]ous impurities; the planet as a whole, theref

...n and the thickness of the coating, the corpse will either sink into the [[water]] (assuming the local part of the sea has [[gravity]] and a well-defined "[

...g tentacles. Various streams and lakes mottle the Gutwood, some mostly of water (with many added [[chemical]]s, but still potable, though odd-tasting), oth

...en the simple sponges reproduce sexually by releasing [[sperm]] into the [[water]] to be carried to other nearby individuals.

...e boundary is between two nations separated by a [[lake]] or other body of water, or how far a state's claim extends into the ocean. The latter [[maritime

...nstruments (such as exist in Nuclearth) as well as such basics as food and water (which are not entirely unavailable on the island, but getting them from el

...pelagic reef]]s, the graceful sea batirines flit over the surface of the [[water]] on the onirarchs' business, often carrying human or batirine passengers o

The world of Khalan is mostly covered with water, with four continents three of which are longer in the north-south directio

...mally merely the Lake to outsiders. This is (usually) the largest body of water in Aarven, though its exact size and contours vary. Another significant fe

..., and fasks can also shape themselves gills and get the ability to breathe water. Fasks can also give themselves vocal cords, in which case they may be cap

...as [[pearl]] collecting and harvesting other resources from the fruitful [[water]]s of the bight. The forests, too, if they are no longer logged, still pro

...t course, they may not particularly care that it robs a community of its [[water]] supply—or that it inundates another. Or, even if destruction or de

...needing to [[respiration|breathe]] [[air]], they can function beneath the water much as they can above it—though they can use [[atmosphere|atmospheri

...lso some large bodies of more or less pure—or at least potable—water), and in many places recognizable—or unrecognizable—[[organs of

...on other means to deter bandit attacks. Common trade goods include food, water, clothing, and weaponry, though there are merchants who deal in luxuries an

...though not as frequented by regular travelers, are [[Capital Cave]], the [[Water Entrance]], and the [[Maw]], in that order. The [[Arcade]], the [[Eastern

...lly originated in the neighboring eder of [[Athrigane]], in the [[brackish water|brackish]] [[monal]] of [[Esterek]]. At first confined to that monal, they

...with official [[religion]]s), and the free distribution of goods such as [[water]], [[food]], and [[power (commodity)|power]]. Different states may offer v