Almost all mermen breathe only air. Why?
Hi everyone,
A friend of mine likes to run Gloranthan campaigns that go way out the beaten path. He has been running a campaign in the gloranthan hell for years, for example. Now he's thinking about running a merfolk campaign, where only mermen are allowed as PCs.
However, he has come across the fact that almost all merfolk breathe air, not water. Only the gnydron seem to breathe water, and that makes a lot of sense because they inhabit the abyssal depths. All the other merfolk have to
I read it as sea mountains, although I brought up the leviathan-based sea creatures as base for their cities, too. Not really different from what Waertag did to sea dragons, only submerged most (if not all) of the time.
In that case, we might have to ask us about their need to sleep, and how they pattern their sleep.
Glorantha knows weird sleeping patterns, e.g. for the aldryami (brown elves hibernate, but don't sleep, for instance, while green elves generally follow the day/night cy