>>5363000Just a couple other minor clarifying matters.
Firstly about Atlantis, the portion you awoke in was just the harbor of the old city, which sunk down into the abyss overtime. Because the entire island submerged, what remains is a sunken sea mount out in the ocean, across which are probably scattered different districts of the old city. The portion of ruins you saw were in the very deeps, where life is scarce so food can't support a population. Maybe only a hundred abyssal merfolk, but shallower areas up the seamount and you'd expect to find much greater concentrations of life. Basically summarized; you shouldn't judge the seas just based on what you encountered in the abyss.
One other important factor it seems should be made clearer, is that your own personal divine realm affects victims within, imparting your own nature and even will onto them overtime. And since you could control what this divine realm of yours is like, and that it could grow and develop alongside your own personal power and growth, you perhaps could be able to refashion it to be able to have control over how your victims are changed to your liking. Currently it's just an endless stormy sea at night, reflective of your divine, and personal nature. If you wanted however, it could be a sunny meadow of flowers that changes inhabitants positively and gives them insect-like traits, or it could be a hellish volcano realm where victims are changed to be angry and fire-bodied. Though remember, victims would have to survive the trials and ordeal of your divine realm, in order to emerge changed as you wanted.
This plays into that vague understanding you're starting to gain, of your own godly potential. If you desired, as your power grows you could change your own divine nature. Of course you are a sea monster, on a physical level, but on a divine level you could be whatever you wanted theoretically. Like you could become a god of nature and growth, or of storms and lightning, of death or justice or war, or even more physical things like a god of this ocean specifically. It's not a simple matter like changing clothes and would be complicated and take time, and faith, but the point is that it is possible if you desired.
