Fall

The Falls are large submarine cities historically built on the backs of, and inside of, dead kraken-whales. As bastions of culture and fashionable life, the metropoles, the largest of the Falls, boast the desirable housing in the oceans of Neptune. Life in the Falls is varied, ranging from urban life in quaint historical districts, modern high-rises, and marinas of remorae, independent water-crafts owned by the ultrawealthy, to rural life on the fins. Since the fins are too delicate and agile to sustain mass construction, they instead host vast agricultural skinfields and serve as mooring for kelp-forests.   As the population of Kraken-Whales have dwindled, modern Falls are instead made in their image. Empowered by the advances in organic architecture, new Falls are fully mechanical and man-made.  

Rise and Fall

The oldest Falls have been lost to the depths and the erosion of time. Nothing would be known about the first societies born on the backs of the kraken-whales, were it not for the Memorial Molars. These reliefs carved into ancient teeth were preserved to the present day by people carrying them between Falls. The Memorial Molars depict ritual human sacrifice, the cultivation of fields in the flesh, and grand hunts. Early historical records depict Falls as autocratic, evolving from petty kingdoms to vast empires spanning entire processions of kraken-whales.   As technology evolved enterprising individuals set out to hunt and establish their own domains, the advent of the Hunter-Colonialist era. This era culminated in the horror of the Blood Rush, and kraken-whales were hunted to near extinction. The same technological advancement that began their doom became their saviour with the construction of the first fully mechanical Fall.   Despite protective measures, kraken-whales continue to teeter on the brink of extinction. Not only are the thin populations spread across wide oceans, it is hard to count what even remains. Kraken-whales now avoid people, diving deeper into the maws of the depths than ever before.