The Moons of Athas

One thing that irks me slightly with Dark Sun is the (to myself at least) inescapable notion that the Sorcerer Kings would just bail. I struggle to believe that The Grey represents an insurmountable barrier to magic users of such power.

Perhaps the moons of Athas serve as Pleasure Planets of the Sorcerer Kings? It sounds enough like the title of a weird fiction novella to be true at least.

They would still be drawn back to Athas & the tablelands in order to maintain their city-states, if only in the interest of maintaining Rajaatā€™s prison via the Dragonā€™s Levy. I doubt they could delude themselves into thinking they might avert their old masterā€™s wrath by squatting on a nearby moonā€¦

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When it comes to the SMs, one thing to remember is they are dragons. They are very powerful, but at the same time they are very protective of what they have. I tend to play them as obsessive and possessive, aside from extreme reasons they donā€™t like to leave their city states. As rebellious champions, they only really fear their master, Rajaat. In their eyes, if not in reality itself, he could chase them anywhere, any time, in the cosmos. They can not hide from him. The best they can do is keep him contained.

Combine those two things and thereā€™s a fairly good chance theyā€™ll stick around home and not run off to some other place.

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If you have tides on Earth, why not tides on Athas in the Sea of Silt?

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The Grey Death is high tide? Does deep water get drawn closer to the surface of the Sea of Silt, causing mudflats to expand?

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The silt tides would likely be a LOT higher/stronger, but wind might play a big part too, because silt blows around really easily. Plus, two moons might jack the tides around weirdly (from our PoV).

TLDR, silt tides should definitely be a thing IMO, but Iā€™d personally just keep them narrative rather than scheduled for ease of useā€¦

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FWIW I am detailing a tides chart in Stargazers for those interested in using /something/ that addresses tides.

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