Wyverns are my go-to 'there are no dragons, but there are these guys' monster. I tend to drama them up tremendously - while not actually making them any stronger - just play on their powerful wingbeats, primal screaming roars, ferociousness and deadliness. Rocs are cool. However, you've lost me on that last bit. I've no idea what an uran-uran is (don't worry, I'm sure google can enlighten me), but you raise another point: If there are no plate tectonics, there aren't any volcanos either - so are there? And I kinda thing there are (volcanos, that is) so I need another reason for them to exist. Same for climate. There wouldn't be any poles for polar bears to call home, but maybe higher islands are colder? So they're high-bears?
Apologies, I went off on a sidequest on that bit. I meant an Urangutan, and I was referencing a 90's children's cartoon Noah's Island, which features an island of animals led by Noah, a polar bear, and navigated by an urangutan in the "boiler room" volcano which pushed the island along.
Regarding plate tectonics, have you considered that in fantasy, the world does not have to be a planet - it can be a Plane, and that has interesting ramifications. If the Plane is expanding due to some power or other, the islands may be becoming separated akin to tectonic movement, leaving the space in between as anything you like - magical swampland which bubbles up from the primodrial lower plane, or good ol' volcanic wasteland, or a dark forest of evil which the ancients raised their cities into the sky to avoid the endless expansion, which makes travel progressively harder due to the ever-expanding distance, whilt people slowly work out safe survival techniques for the wild in-between.
Apologies, I went off on a sidequest on that bit. I meant an Urangutan, and I was referencing a 90's children's cartoon Noah's Island, which features an island of animals led by Noah, a polar bear, and navigated by an urangutan in the "boiler room" volcano which pushed the island along.
Regarding plate tectonics, have you considered that in fantasy, the world does not have to be a planet - it can be a Plane, and that has interesting ramifications. If the Plane is expanding due to some power or other, the islands may be becoming separated akin to tectonic movement, leaving the space in between as anything you like - magical swampland which bubbles up from the primodrial lower plane, or good ol' volcanic wasteland, or a dark forest of evil which the ancients raised their cities into the sky to avoid the endless expansion, which makes travel progressively harder due to the ever-expanding distance, whilt people slowly work out safe survival techniques for the wild in-between.
I'm pretty sure volcanoes are all to do with fire elementals. When they build a nest down in the roots of the island, if there are enough of them, a volcano is bound to happen.
Until now, I didn't know fire elementals were nesting animals - but now it seems they are. Well, nesting wouldn't involve egg-laying and roosting, but ... more like creating a sort of biome that allows further elementals to slip through from the elemental plane of fire.
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Apologies, I went off on a sidequest on that bit. I meant an Urangutan, and I was referencing a 90's children's cartoon Noah's Island, which features an island of animals led by Noah, a polar bear, and navigated by an urangutan in the "boiler room" volcano which pushed the island along.
Regarding plate tectonics, have you considered that in fantasy, the world does not have to be a planet - it can be a Plane, and that has interesting ramifications. If the Plane is expanding due to some power or other, the islands may be becoming separated akin to tectonic movement, leaving the space in between as anything you like - magical swampland which bubbles up from the primodrial lower plane, or good ol' volcanic wasteland, or a dark forest of evil which the ancients raised their cities into the sky to avoid the endless expansion, which makes travel progressively harder due to the ever-expanding distance, whilt people slowly work out safe survival techniques for the wild in-between.
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I'm pretty sure volcanoes are all to do with fire elementals. When they build a nest down in the roots of the island, if there are enough of them, a volcano is bound to happen.
Until now, I didn't know fire elementals were nesting animals - but now it seems they are. Well, nesting wouldn't involve egg-laying and roosting, but ... more like creating a sort of biome that allows further elementals to slip through from the elemental plane of fire.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.