NMS Worlds - Lore Discussion (spoilers)

There’s not as many text heavy story segments for the Aquarius Expedition so instead of doing two seperate lore dumps of Pictures and Transcribed text, I’ll just keep the two together :slight_smile:

Expedition 15: Aquarius

Expedition 15 : Aquarious :amphora:

The Lost Angler





As I settle into the starship’s oddly familiar surroundings, I feel a strange dampness about the seat The smell of salt water lingers in the air, faint but unmistakable.

Looking closer, there appears to be a bottle lodged into the launch control panel.

There is a message inside the bottle, scrawled in a hasty hand and torn from a larger book. It reads:

T H E - A N G L E R
-{{ "I finally feel like I’m getting closer. A trader on Gisto offered me solid-gold information on its location, for a price.
And so I’m selling my ship. I’ll miss the Celeste, but I have to know if the rumours are true. I hope whoever buys you takes good care of you… }}-

At the bottom of the message, someone has added a hand-written set of planetary coordinates…

T H E - A N G L E R
-{{Universe Address: [VALIDATED]
Warp Coordinates Primed…}}-

I rummage through the cache’s rusty innards. It appears to contain a schematic for a piece of fishing equipment…

T H E - A N G L E R
“The rumours were true. It’s out there, I can feel it. Not here, but somewhere. The water calls to me, I just need to follow its voice…”

T H E - A N G L E R
“I saw it in my dreams last night. Scales like fire and eves of pure starlight. It sang to me, a song of hope and longing. It wants me to find it, I know it. I must be closing in.”

T H E - A N G L E R
“I was right! It was here! After all these light years, all the doubts, it’s finally mine. Oh, and how it shines! Like fire in the water, beautiful, impossible…”

T H E - A N G L E R
“The fire has faded from my catch’s scales, and my dreams have soured. I thrash through the night. My skin itches, damp and clammy. Salt seeps from my pores.
It longs to be free. I cannot keep it contained like this. It must be free.
I must be free…”

Find the fiery scales of the Angler’s legacy
Return to their last known fishing spot
The Angler yearned for freedom
Dredge up that which remains…
Locate a suitable body of water to begin fishing.

Catch Landed

THE ANGLER

Legendary Fish

Fire dances across the scales of this impossible marine being. Its starlit eyes stare back at you with a meaning far deeper than any fish should know. As they stare, the world around you fades away.

The sound of water fills your ears. It wants to be free. You want to be free…

Legendary Fish Lore Descriptions

Legendary Fish Lore

- Any Biome

Singing Sea-Snail

130

“A voice like honey from a mouth of mucus.”

Golden Jellyfish

131

“Its tentacles that glitter like wisps of golden hair, but sting with the fire of thousand suns.”

Dragonfish

132

“Territorial, ancient, furious to be caught. The king of the sea.”

The Lunker

133

“A true titan of the depths. Nothing compares for sheer mass.”

- Lush Biome

Glass Angel

235

“A creature of dreams, only visible where the light refracts through its soft, perfect jelly.”

Mist Serpent

236

“When hunting, can dissolve into a thin dark cloud, impossible to track, impossible to see coming…”

Reef Guardian

237

“A powerful, muscular body and teeth like razors, these gentle giants protect smaller creatures from predators.”

Blind Titancore

238

“The old man of the sea; scarred, blinded, still swimming on…”

- Hot Biome

Starshell Crab

193

“Its glittering shell is practically unbreakable, a material of pure perfection.”

Mirrorscale Skipper

194

“Impossible to see with mortal eyes as it flashes through the water under boiling, cloudless skies.”

Jelly of the Veil

235

“A dark cloud follows this creature, and dreams of doom await all those who touch it.”

Ancient Irontail

132

“Heart of stone and fins of iron, this creature lives on where all else falters.”

- Cold Biome

Crystal Jelly

214

“A living snowflake: frozen solid yet still alive, its tentacles a fractal recursion.”

Ghostfin

215

“A name only spoken in whispers, its pale body a illusion that flickers beneath the moonlit waves.”

Iceblood Gulper

216

“A heart that beats but once a hour, a heart that sees faster life spawn and die, spawn and die, spawn and die…”

Nautilia

217

“None would believe the scale of this beast: its colossal shell, its enormous slimy foot. None, except those who have seen it…”

- Irradiated Biome

Many-Eyed Jellyfish

172

“A thousand eyes erupt from its soft flesh: a never-ending cycle of rising, blinking, sinking, and re-emergence.”

Aberrant Duskfin

173

“Its wings beat slowly as it sails though the poisoned seas, a drifter with no place of rest, no end to their journey.”

Gamma Squid

174

“A pale blue glow surrounds it as it drifts through the water - a warning to all those who would come too close…”

Helix Sawfish

175

“Polymorphic, twisting, always in motion; its body a constant whirr of shifting forms and ripping teeth.”

- Toxic Biome

Emeril Sunstar

151

“Its perfect crystalline form glistens with a emerald light that changes the soul of all those whose eyes fall upon it.”

Vampire Squid

152

“A true error of the deep; its hungry bite corrupts your blood, filling your body with a spurting corrosive bile.”

Bleached Bonefish

133

“Robbed of flesh and stripped of colour by acid seas, the bonefish swims on regardless.”

Translucent Gulper

238

“Seemingly weak and fragile at the surface, these giant jaws have swallowed alive many an unwary soul who ventured into their abyssal home…”

- Dusty Biome

Fragile Icthyoscale

256

“A delicate creature, a fragment of the past that lives on in the water.”

Titanworm Larva

132

“The many-mouths arise from the darkness of the ocean; the many-mouths hunger for their home in the sand…”

Ossified Deinosuchus

133

“A relic of another age, a fusion of life and stone that refuses to die.”

Megalodon

259

“The apex of marine predation, a perfect killing machine. Beware.”

- Odd Biome

Abyssal Horror Egg

19

“Listen to these words: Do not allow this egg to hatch. Cast it back into the sea.”

Atlantidian Crab

278

“Shell and claw of perfect crystal, eyestalks aglow with purple rage; a being displaced from another reality and cast here as crab.”

Child of Helios

235

“Its song resonates across time and space, calling to its home in the endless black above. One day, it will rise and return to its home among the stars.”

Many-Mouthed Lunker

280

“On the surface or below the waves, the vessel hungers, the vessel feeds…”

@DevilinPixy @sheralmyst @AGrownUpPerson Hey I was hoping I’d be able to add future Lore related to the worlds update to the top post to keep it updated but it seems there is a time limit. Any chance you could copy paste the Exp15/Fishy stuff from this post into it for me? :smiley:

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