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A culture whose hat is their skill at sail, whether through literal seafaring and shipbuilding in oceanic or riverine environments, being a spacefaring species known primarily for spacefaring when Space Is an Ocean, or traversing the skies when The Sky Is an Ocean. Typically, these sorts of cultures live on islands or along coastal areas, often with a wide scattering of outposts, colonies, and secondary territories scattered around the shores and islands of the world. In some cases, they may be born and spend their entire lives at sea without ever touching dry land. They are often a Proud Merchant Race, as all that sailing promotes both transportation of goods and contact with distant markets. They often have a powerful navy and may also engage in piracy, in which case they may be a Proud Warrior Race, but aren't limited to those roles. It's common for these groups to be Fantasy Counterpart Cultures inspired by historical peoples with strong maritime traditions. In particular, the Polynesians and the ancient Norse are common inspirations. A variant of this trope places the sailors in a freshwater, rather than oceanic, setting. This typically manifests as river nomads, living in houseboats and wandering up and down the branches of large river systems. This trope is a common feature of Ocean Punk settings. The Cool Boat is probably a feature. Wooden Ships and Iron Men may be involved, if they lean in that aesthetic direction. A related skill is that of The Navigator. Compare Space People and Space Nomads. For a similar trope involving horse-riding cultures, see Born in the Saddle. Often a variant of a Wandering Culture. |
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The Gyptians in His Dark Materials are river nomads who live their lives on canal boats across the Fens, and an adoptive family to Lyra. They are key to her escape from Oxford, and hire seagoing ships to take her to Norway. They've been treated as expendable experimental subjects by the General Oblation Board, so they're motivated to help her by the desire to save their kidnapped children. | |
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Starcraft: While it makes no difference in-game, the manual explains that the Auriga tribe of Protoss were the first to explore the seas of Aiur, and ten millennia later they maintain their species' space fleet. | |
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Dragon Age has two nations that are almost synonymous with sailing: Antiva and Rivain. Antiva is a coastal nation that operates a huge merchant fleet, while Rivain is located entirely on a huge peninsula and is best known for their sea smugglers and pirates. Sailing is their hat to such a degree that in the pen-and-paper adaptation, "wayfarer" and "merchant" are basically the only backgrounds available to Antivan and Rivaini PCs, respectively. | |
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Might and Magic: In the Enroth subsetting, the Regnan Isles are by far the dominant power on the seas in the first few games — their "Empire of the Endless Ocean" moniker is mostly a boast, but it isn't a completely empty one (which is unfortunate for everyone else, Regna being proudly piratical). While Regna does suffer significant defeats at times, it's mostly when they get off the boats for coastal raiding — Might & Magic VIII sank a good chunk of their navy,note they gathered much of it in a bay by Regna proper as part of a blockade, and when the player characters get sent to find a way to break the blockade they end up smashing a super-cannon project, stealing the project notes, killing the lead researcher and hijacking the super-cannon prototype to sink every single ship in the bay but the next game in the franchise blew up the planet, so the consequences of that never really mattered. | |
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RuneQuest: The Waertagi have never willingly lived anyplace else except on their immense city ships, and are infamous for their ability to tame sea monsters for war. | |
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The Silmarillion: The Falmari elves were taught shipbuilding and seacraft by Ossë, a Maiar — demigod — of the sea, and consequently loved it more than any other elven people. They were the ones who built the swan-ships of the elves, and unlike the other elves of Aman dwell chiefly in the port city of Alqualondë and the island of Tol Eressëa. | |
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Redwall: While there are some hedgehog tribes known to sail the rivers of Mossflower, the best inland sailors are the tribes of shrews in logboats. The otters are also all proficient sailors and led by a leader called Skipper. Out at sea, it's sea otters and searats (both are piratical, the otters attacking vermin and the rats any helpless victims). |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: The Nautilus Pirates are more or less a faction of old-school Earth Pirates that were Recycled In Space. They start the game with a number of sea-related bonuses, including the technology to build aquatic bases. Their agenda is even listed as "pillage and burn". | |
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Serina: The thalassic gravediggers are descendants of the social gravediggers that became a nomadic seafaring people after being forced into the equatorial seaway by the glaciation of the continents, and which adapted to living on boats and rafts crafted from ocean plants. Due to their having lived on the open ocean for three million years, they're a wholly distinct species from their terrestrial forebears and developed physical adaptations to better live on the sea like a narrower beak for catching fish and an organ in their nose that filters salt from their blood so they can safely drink seawater. It's also stated that they typically don't destroy the island ecosystems they come across like ancient humans due to them not settling on the islands and actually living on the ocean itself. | |
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The Earthsea book The Farthest Shore has the Raft People, who live at sea and only come to shore to collect logs to build new rafts. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The Gilleau River in Bretonnia is home to the Gillites, a culture of river nomads who live in decorated houseboats and make it a point of personal pride to never set foot on dry land. They're proficient sailors and hole a near-monopoly on riverine trade along the Gilleau. | |
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The Demon Breed: The sled-men of Nandy-Cline live on enormous rafts that sail the planet's oceans, and rarely if ever go to shore. It's mentioned that their ancestors were Space Nomads before they settled on the planet. | |
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Civilization: In Civilization V, the Polynesians' unique ability lets them embark on ocean tiles from the very start of the game, giving them a head start settling islands or distant continents. In Civilization VI, the Norwegians gain a similar ability. Other nations are less dramatic examples of this trope. England in Civ V has the "Sun Never Sets" ability that gives all their ships an extra movement point, while Carthage in the same game gets a free Harbor in newly-founded cities, encouraging them to settle on the coasts and letting them integrate their empire by sea much earlier than most civs. Indonesia doesn't get any concrete naval bonuses, but this playstyle is still encouraged by their "Spice Islanders" ability, which provides exclusive luxuries in the first three Indonesian cities founded on another continent. The Maori in Civ VI are the kings of this trope. They begin the game with their Settler and other starting units embarked in the ocean, but to compensate for their late start get free science and culture points while they look for the perfect place to make landfall and found their capital, and get increased population and production in their first city to help them catch up. Civilization: Beyond Earth has the North Sea Alliance faction, a coalition formed from the British Isles, the Dutch, and Scandinavia. They are one of two factions able to settle their first city on the water, and their unique ability increases the combat strength of oceanic cities as well as reducing the cost of moving them to acquire territory. |
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Tales Out of Tallis: The Ilael are a seagoing culture, sometimes even raising their children on the ships. They also serve as a Proud Merchant Race. | |
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Warcraft and World of Warcraft: The island nation of Kul Tiras, whose contribution to the original Alliance was its powerful navy that they had built up to protect their fleet of merchant vessels. Their national emblem is also an anchor. | |
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Civilization: Beyond Earth has the North Sea Alliance faction, a coalition formed from the British Isles, the Dutch, and Scandinavia. They are one of two factions able to settle their first city on the water, and their unique ability increases the combat strength of oceanic cities as well as reducing the cost of moving them to acquire territory. | |
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Pathfinder: The munavri descend from Azlanti seafarers who were drawn into the Darklands during Azlant's fall and maintain their ancestors' maritime traditions, sailing the breadth of the Sightless Sea on ivory ships and living on floating island-cities. Not all munavri take to the sea — most priests and craftsmen never leave their islands — but sea travel still plays an important part in their culture and all young munavri are expected to build a skiff and learn how to sail. The Taotake people sail nomadically across Golarion's oceans, either individually, in small groups of boats or in true cities of ships. They're chiefly merchants and explorers, trading with whoever they encounter and placing a great deal of value on discovery — a Taotake isn't believed to have found their true name until they discover and name something no Taotake did before. Consequently, bands of Taotake sailors can be found in every sea and ocean of the world, mapping out the world and trading as they go. Culturally, they're strongly inspired by Polynesian peoples. River giants live their lives upon their rafts and houseboats, wandering the rivers of the world. When they keep permanent homes, these are usually utilitarian huts on islands or rock formations located where large rivers come together, which serve mainly as storage spaces and travel hubs while their owners wander the breadth of the waterways. |
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Hive Mind (2016): While the Sea Farm is about much more than fishing — it's intended to be entirely self-sufficient, with mining, farming, and herding — its culture is centered around the sea, with the leader bearing the title Admiral. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Hadozee, a race of Killer Space Monkeys who debuted in Spelljammer and were reinvented from the Yazirians of Star Frontiers, are culturally defined by their skill at handling sailing vessels (and the spelljammers derived from them) and their wanderlust. They are so fascinated by spelljamming that they collectively abandoned their homeworld, and can now be found serving on spelljammers throughout Wildspace. Unusually for this trope, they aren't skilled at making vessls, and their limited magical potential in 2nd edition makes them poor "helmsmen" for spelljammers, so instead they serve as crew on the ships of other races. In The Delver's Guide to Beast World, the Feline Islands of Al'Ar are based on the Carribean, and the native cats avoid hurricane season by regularly moving from one island to another in the Storm Voyage. |
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Game of Thrones universe: In Game of Thrones, the Ironborn are a seafaring culture based around piracy. House of the Dragon: House Velaryon made its wealth and glory through seafaring and explorations and owns the biggest war fleet in Westeros. |
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Stardoc: The Jorenians are known for developing wanderlust and taking large portions of their HouseClan on deep space cruises for months or years at a time. | |
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Rocket Age: The thirty-three Green-Yellow Chanari tribes are the preeminent silt sailors of Mars. Most sea trade on Mars is done through them, along with most of the piracy, and they are the only people who dare to hunt Silt Dragons, the largest vertebrate in the solar system. | |
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Halo: Prior to uniting in order to achieve spaceflight, the Kig-Yar or Jackals were divided into pirate clans that raided one another on the seas of their homeworld of Eayn. Afterwards, they ended up forming numerous colonies on the asteroids surrounding Eayn and raided the ships of other species as Space Pirates before getting folded into the Covenant as mercenaries, though they still kept up pirating even after the Human-Covenant War. | |
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Mass Effect: The Quarians lost their homeworld in a Robot War centuries ago, and have since been traveling the galaxy in a giant flotilla of space ships. Quarian names even include the ship they were born on and the ship they serve under following their Pilgrimage. As a result, their spacefaring skill is legendary and unquestioned throughout the setting. | |
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Numenera: The Redfleets, an organization of traders, explorers, and small-time pirates. They revere the ocean and dedicate their lives to exploring it both by ship and submarine to discover its many treasures. They have no interest in man-made things, however, and focus exclusively on natural treasures — oceanic formations, islands, sea creatures, and so on. | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: Some clans of Travelling Folk live on the rivers, which they ply on brightly painted boats each home to a family. They may give the Tourists passage, albeit grudgingly, in exchange for menial work, but will not hesitate to dump them on shore if this brings the minions of the Dark on their trail. | |
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The Wheel of Time has the Atha'an Miere, commonly known as the Sea Folk, world-renowned merchants whose ships are central to their culture and who spend as little time on land as possible. Although they nominally govern several archipelagos, those lands are inhabited by a separate people and only visited by the Sea Folk for commerce. | |
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Technic History: The Man Who Counts features a race of flying aliens, of which one major tribe spends most of their life on giant rafts, sailing across their world's seas. | |
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In The Delver's Guide to Beast World, the Feline Islands of Al'Ar are based on the Carribean, and the native cats avoid hurricane season by regularly moving from one island to another in the Storm Voyage. | |
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Moana: Moana's people were once skilled seafarers, roaming the ocean to discover new islands as the gods created them, but after Maui took the Heart of Creation the seas became hostile and forbidding and they mothballed their seafaring canoes. After Moana returns the Heart to Te Fiti, they take up their heritage again. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: While Redguards are primarily known for being great warriors and swordsmen, they are secondarily famous for being masters of sail, to the point that Hammerfell itself is referred to as "the Land of Sword and Sail". Despite never developing a written language or even agriculture, the ancient Atmorans (ancestors of the modern Nords) were master shipbuilders and sailors. Their most famous shipyard was Jylkurfyk, from which Ysgramor commissioned ships for he and his companions to invade Tamriel. The Kothringi were a tribal race of Men native to the Black Marsh. Despite their relatively primitive culture, they, like the Atmorans, were skilled sailors. They are now presumed extinct, having been wiped out by the 2nd Era Knahaten Flu. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The Ironborn are among the best sailors — and the most feared reavers — in Westeros' seas, and quite possibly in the world. They need to be — their islands are not fertile, and little grows in their thin soil. If they want anything beyond iron ore, they need to head out to sea to find it. As a result, they derive considerable pride from their nautical traditions — they disdain any show of fear of the water, including not wearing metal armor that could drag you under should fall in the sea, and consider captains to be absolutely sovereign on the deck of their own ship. | |
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Outsider: The Belerid Loroi of Taben, living on a dwarf, icy continent in an ocean world where violent weather makes farming difficult and most food is in the sea, developed a proudly maritime culture focused on fishing, whaling, exploration, trade, and piracy. The modern Tenoin caste, which consists of the Loroi forces' spaceship crews and navigators, has its origins on Taben and still maintains training facilities in Beleri. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Major focus is given to Númenor's status as a maritime culture, and Isildur in particular seems very troubled by Númenor's (relatively recent) isolationism. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: On the plane of Ixalan, the ancestors of the Brazen Coalition pirates made their living from the sea, inhabiting a series of coastal city-states and gaining wealth from maritime trade. By the setting's present, after having been forced into the ocean by the Legion of Dusk conquering their homes, the pirates have led an almost entirely maritime existence for more than most of them have been alive: while a few crews have claimed permanent island forts, most live exclusively on their ships as they sail Ixalan's seas. They don't have any leadership beyond their captains and admirals, their ships and fleets serve as the basis of their society's organization, and their only permanent settlement, High and Dry, is a City on the Water made of hundreds of ships lashed to one another. | |
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Equestria at War: The Bakaran Republic has a very strong shipbuilding tradition and is the Coalition's primary supplier of naval power, with an extensive naval focus tree. | |
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In Game of Thrones, the Ironborn are a seafaring culture based around piracy. | |
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Arcia Chronicles: Eland is a small northern kingdom that is (in)famous for its disproportionately huge sometimes-merchant-sometimes-pirate navy, to the point where the terms "Elander" and "mariner" are used as interchangeable ethnonyms. This goes doubly so after the old coastal Eland from the first duology is flooded by natural cataclysms and its refugees settle on a well-hidden archipelago in the south seas, basically precluding any land contact with other countries. | |
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In Earth's Children, Ramudoi culture (which makes up one half of the Sharamudoi tribe) is heavily centred around building boats and fishing; they are known to be highly skilled sailors and boat-builders, and are capable of hunting huge sturgeon with harpoons. They also live on floating platforms on the edge of the Danube River (which they call the Great Mother River) most of the year, though they spend winters in the Shamudoi's mountain caves. A Ramudoi boy becomes a man when he successfully catches a fish from a boat and a couple wishing to marry have to first help construct a new boat (the same applies to their Shamudoi neighbours if they intermarry). | |
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The Crocodile God: As in real life the ancient Tagalog tribe in the Philippines are seafarers due to their Austronesian heritage, and their own name means "people of the rivers". The sea-god Haik is the title's Crocodile God, and the story's Mythopoeia deems him a folk memory of Paikea the Whale-Rider from New Zealand, bringing this a bit higher since the Maori are Polynesian. (As the Real Life folder notes, Polynesians were especially good navigators even among Austronesians.) It's revealed later on that Haik's sister is Hina. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Among the Space Wolves (space Vikings), Engir Krakendoom's tribe are known for being the best sailors, hunting sea monsters with nothing but oars, harpoons, and axes. Their skills translate well when Space Is an Ocean, and so his Company excels at boarding and ship-to-ship combat. | |
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Drowtales: The Illhar'dro clan was originally composed of seafarers back in the Moons Age, but after being driven underground has turned into a Proud Merchant Race that still uses turquoise blue as its primary color. | |
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House of the Dragon: House Velaryon made its wealth and glory through seafaring and explorations and owns the biggest war fleet in Westeros. | |
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Pokémon Sun and Moon has the Seafolk, who live in a flotilla of Pokémon-shaped houseboats and travel the seas nomadically in search of new wonders to bring back to Alola for trade. The Seafolk Village where they’re found isn’t even a true village so much as a system of docks, with the houses simply being the Seafolk boats that happen to be at anchor there when you visit. | |
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Beyond Skyrim: The Hafkyn Clan were famous for their expertise in shipbuilding, which gave them quite an edge in dominating trade in the Sea of Ghosts, and enabled them to become the most powerful and richest clan in Southern Atmora. | |
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Dark Shores: The Maarin people are a nation of seafaring people. Their home is an archipelago but most of them are born and spend their lives on their ships, travelling around the world. They are also the only ones who know how to navigate deadly doldrums and cross the Endless Seas. | |
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The Hands of the Emperor: The Wide Sea Islanders in Vangaye-Ve, who used to be famous explorers, chartering unknown seas and discovering new islands. By now, they have mostly settled on the islands, but retain a strong connection towards the sea and their ancient history. | |
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Gods of the Fall: The Empire of the Sea is akin to a country, albeit a fluid one, which claims a territory spread across a dozen islands dotting the Sea of Shadows. These islands are merely places where ships sometimes put ashore for repair and resupply; the center of the community and life is aboard the ships themselves. | |
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Age of Wonders 3: Human units have the Mariner ability, allowing them to embark on water without any of the usual penalties and have three more movement on the water. | |
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Bravely Default II: In a Party Chat conversation with Gloria, Seth reveals he was born on an unnamed chain of islands where becoming a sailor is an expected profession for most adults. | |
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Dragonlance: The Minotaurs are known for being the most accomplished sailors and advanced shipbuilders on Ansalon, to the point that most minotaurs end up serving aboard a sailing vessel at some point in their lives. | |
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Crusader Kings II: Any nation with a lot of coastline can become a serious contender at amphibious warfare, and merchant republics require coastal access to build trade routes, but the true sea kings are the Norse. All counties of Norse culture get free shipyards when the "Dawn of the Viking Age" event fires around 790 AD (and start with them in the 867 AD start date), while Germanic pagans (also chiefly Norse, though the Saxons follow the same faith) can sail up major rivers to raid inland and portage ships overland between them (letting them raid in the Black Sea, up the Danube to southern Germany, and into the Mediterranean by sailing through otherwise landlocked western Russia and Ukraine), and may declare county conquest wars against any coastal province (instead of merely ones on their own borders as other pagans, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims can). They also have a slew of traits they earn by raiding. The Holy Fury DLC throws a complicating factor into things by allowing any pagan faith to become master seafarers at reformation by taking the Sea-Bound doctrine (representing a major element of the reformed faith), which grants them the unreformed Germanic ship maintenance reduction and ability to sail up major rivers (if they take the Daring doctrine as well they even get pirate traits they can earn by raiding, although due to coding limits they still grant an opinion bonus with Germanics specifically). Germanics and Aztecs can instead take unique doctrines that combine the abilities of Sea-Bound with one or more doctrines. Coastal conquest is still unique to Germanics, however. |
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