House Mollusca

House Mollusca is generally ruled by a Monarch, known as The Cosmic Kraken. However, at the time of the loss of The Cosmic Kraken-Coffee Quills in the Third Word War, the Heir Starborn Striker was unable to assume the role. Former Inky Commander Daciana Wolfkeeper became Regent for a time, until she was needed elsewhere. On July 1, 2023, then-Inky JaySeaBoom stepped into the role of Regent.   The Regent rules in the Monarch's place until such time as they are no longer needed. The Heir is next in the hierarchy of power. Each are guarded by the Order of Inkies.

When the first Cosmic One came to Earth, sometime during the neolithic era, they decided to make their home in the Pacific Ocean, because there they could hide from the view of regular humans, and it was large enough to contain them in their original, nascent capacity. So they found a trench, already of considerable size, and expanded and reformed it to become their home. Eventually, this would become known as the Zafforza Trench.   However, they were lonely and bored, and actually liked humans, despite their tendency to be afraid of the Cosmic One. So they decided to try and bring some humans to live with them. Despite their Cosmic efforts, the first few humans did not fare well beneath the waves. So the Cosmic One paused their work. They rested, and reached out with their thoughts, mental tentacles feeling their way around the planet, over its land masses, and through its oceans and seas. And they found something.    Out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, they found an underwater city. No human or demi-human life remained there at the time. But it was big, beautiful, and perfect. The Cosmic One decided to move the abandoned city to the Zafforza Trench, and rebuild it so that humans could keep them company. Inscriptions that still exist in the city today, name it Atlantis.    What powers did they use to accomplish this task? No one yet knows. How did they arrive on our planet? That too remains unknown. But the adaptation of Atlantis to the Zafforza Trench is inarguably a feat of tremendous power, and explains much about the Zafforza Trench and Molluscan people of today.   The inscriptions inform us that, after moving the great island city to the Zafforza Trench, the first Cosmic One once again attempted to populate their new home with humans. This time, it worked. Mostly. They learned that humans needed air, and that occasional sunlight and vegetation helped them to thrive. So The Cosmic One sealed much of the city against the ocean water, and filled it with air. Other sections of the city were designed to occasionally be raised to the surface and could be farmed or otherwise inhabited above water for a time. Even others were left open to the watery depths of the ocean, and a few had special access points where water and air met. Thus, the creatures of the ocean also made their home in Zafforza. Over the millennia, many different types of humans found their way to Zafforza. Though it seems those with some literomantic ability flourished best in this unique environment.   We do not know what happened to the first Cosmic One. But we know they found a way to pass their Cosmic powers forward, and through some combination with the literomancers, aquatic creatures, and other humans, we have the Molluscans of today. The Cosmic Kraken-CoffeeQuills was themselves a direct descendent of the first Cosmic One. But likely, so are many others, albeit less directly.   The philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis around 360 BC. He said that its founders had been demigods who established an utopian civilization with a great capital at the center of a series of concentric islands. The islands were separated by moats, and the whole had a subterranean canal across it, that linked them all to the center. The air-filled halls and caverns beneath the sea that are at the center of Zafforza today are one small section of what once was the capital palace of Atlantis. Due to a variety of events, much of the original city was hidden for some time. But in recent years, it has begun to be rediscovered and repopulated.    

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