The Sangalari of Thalass'arra
The @Sangalari are the tide-marked descendants of Thalass’arra’s drowned bloodlines—part mortal, part memory, and part ocean’s will. Forged through centuries of stasis beneath the sea and symbiosis with coral and Leviathan echoes, they rose with their kingdom, carrying both ancestral weight and deep-sea mystery in their veins.
They are not simply survivors—they are living memories, shaped by currents of time and tide.
Appearance
Skin gleams with pearlescent or kelp-hued tones, often patterned with coral filigree or faint barnacle latticework.
Hair flows like waterweed or glimmers with tideglass streaks.
Eyes resemble still tidepools, layered with shifting light and ancestral echoes.
Some bear translucent fins, coral-grown nails, or embedded shell-ridges.
Their voices often carry layered resonance, as though multiple lives speak at once.
Culture & Society
The Sangalari embody remembrance as law, belief, and identity:
Memory is Sovereignty. Forgetting is seen as the gravest sin.
Life events are marked by weaving memory-fragments into coral charms.
Ancestral rites are sung backward or in echo-harmonies, ensuring the sea remembers alongside them.
Their society is guided by the Deepcourt, where monarchy and memory converge.
Centers of Sangalari society include:
@Aurelmire Hall – The risen capital, where ancestral voices govern.
@Echo Pools – Reflection gardens where mourning and ancestral communion converge.
@The Spiral Archives – Vaults of living memory-scrolls and Leviathan-scripted lore.
Role in Aethertide
The Sangalari are:
Memory-Bearers, binding themselves to echoes of past lives and lost histories.
Guardians of Chain Magic, though they practice it sparingly after the hubris of the Age of Chains.
Political Ambassadors, newly risen into an Aethertide that thought them myth, now weaving alliances and rivalries.
Living Bridges, linking drowned ages to present seas, often unsettling those who fear the past resurfacing.
They rarely leave Aurelmire unless charged by the throne or bound by vision.
Regions & Influence
@Tidewatch City – Where envoys test their political weight against empires and pirate confederacies.
@The Memory Spires – A site where their oracles project ancestral resonance into ghostlight visions.
@The Tethermarket – Where Sangalari merchants trade memory-glass and echo-bound trinkets.
Outside their isle, they are seen as eerie, regal, and unpredictable.
Unique Aspects
Ancestral Recall – Sangalari can momentarily access knowledge from past lives, allowing them to succeed in unfamiliar arts.
Memory Shroud – They may project illusions shaped from fragments of drowned truth.
Dreamborne Voices – Their speech sometimes overlays with ancestral resonance or carries into dreams.
Tide-Symbiosis – Each Sangalari hosts a coral-symbiote that glows or hardens in moments of emotion or danger.
“We are not what the sea forgot—we are what it chose to remember.”
The Sangalari do not simply live in Aethertide—they are its reminder that nothing drowned is ever truly gone.