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...n huge barren rocks, but they may also be covered in vegetation and animal life. Shees are sometimes called floating [[island]]s, but this term is ambiguous, as it can also refer to an island

==Life== ...r, the life is necessarily adapted to one of constant swimming, flight, or floating, as Alen has no solid surface (though it does contain occasional [[ice]] [[

...Empire, but especially seem to find a home in [[gas giant]]s, where their floating ability is a significant advantage. ..., they will be expelled through the parents' membrane and able to continue life on their own.

...any native life at all remains in question; it's conceivable that ''all'' life in Icathiria was originally brought there from elsewhere—including th ...lifeless [[moon]] as on a populated planet, and some have even been found floating free in [[outer space|space]].

...rarely inhabited above one kilometer or so, though there are some hardy [[life form]]s that thrive in the dizzier heights. Fresh water exists in vessels ...pets of moss, [[alga]]e, and other growths by the sides of the spines form floating surfaces thick and stable enough to build on.

...it may choose to expel the water less forcefully if it wishes to eat while floating in place. If necessary, the ganulia can swim using its [[fin]]s, but it ra ...se its motion is relatively slow, it is often seen something as a living [[floating island]]. Indeed, in many ways it does function as such; semiaquatic or ev

...pite some of her outlandish practices, Elêla is a liberal ruler, and life in Ivinii, like that in Drithidiach, is better than in most of the onirarch ==Life==

...]] on the surfaces of which [[human (Loge)|human]]s and other [[mortal]] [[life form|being]]s live (as well as, in some cases, in their interiors). Most g ...hat remains completely unsettled. Certainly they show a wide diversity of forms, but there are known species with comparable variation. For the moment, th

...made of bones with skeletal hands for heads; [[panker]]s, huge, spidery [[life form]]s made mostly of leg bones; [[powk]]s, small and fast quadrupeds made ...they can read thoughts. The [[ws]] are roughly man-shaped collections of floating bits and fragments of bone that usually go dressed in robes; they are perha

...de the planet's [[atmosphere]], a potent [[rhegus]] keeps the [[air]] from floating into space. The occasional clod of dirt, rock, or bit of [[organic compound ...the fact that most of it remains undeveloped, and some of the dangerous [[life]] (or [[undead|unlife]]) living on and within the mountain make it a less p

...alike, on land and underwater. Some Clarke chambers have even been found floating in [[outer space|space]], either in [[orbit]] around planets or [[star]]s o ...of the glyphs look like representational drawings of various objects and [[life form]]s; others are wholly abstract. Often they are arranged in lines that

...ces have been cast there. Plex has thus become a bizarre melting pot of [[life form]]s from multiple planes and cosmoi, all of whom are exiled criminals o ...to raise children, and few of its residents have much interest in a family life, but perhaps more important is the fact that due to the diversity of [[spec

...Originally a [[sthitarat]], Geronger now enjoys taking on many different forms, destroying his current body and replicating a new one almost daily, and se ...artygoers, deaths still occur, but the duplicators ensure that any loss of life is not long-lasting.

* The [[coova]], a life form made up of numerous small [[metal]]lic [[sphere]]s * The [[shiqueu]], a floating entity with advanced [[power (celemology)|power]]s of [[telekinesis]]

...o other distant worlds and perhaps even other [[plane]]s, and that bring [[life form|creatures]] and things from these other worlds to Gala. Beings from t ==Life==

...ands the bosses can move it again to correct their mistake. Thus the ruge forms another line of defense in case the government ever did decide to try to ta ...ncludes less licit wares. [[Drug]]s, restricted [[weapon]]s, proscribed [[life form]]s (sold as [[pet]]s or for other purposes), and more can all be had i

...dapted to feed on roper larvæ exclusively, their small size and free-floating nature makes them prey for all manner of [[planktonivory|planktonivore]]. ...y is small [[fish]], and occasionally [[crustacean]]s. An unintelligent [[life form|creature]], however, it tends to lash out at anything nearby making si

...rse flora and fauna all its own, similarly mutated from preapocalyptic sea life, and has been settled by [[human (Nuclearth)|human]]s from all over the wor ...ions are gone, or exist now as very imperfect imitations of their previous forms. The prevailing social structures vary widely in different areas. Where t

...as that most similar worlds ''don't'' have is a smaller [[satellite]] disk floating some distance away. Called [[Chethe]], this disk is seldom visited by the ...any (the so-called "undeveloped nations") that retain other [[government]] forms. The onirarchies, however, are the most visible nations, and certainly the

At times Hauhlen manifests as a giant disembodied floating [[brain]], shimmering with a silvery-purple color. In this form, she is ab ...frescoes, inscriptions, or reliefs, either depicting esoteric places and [[life form|creatures]] or symbols of sphingine significance, or spelling out obsc