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Races

Decapodian

Multi-Armed and Dangerous: The mant-i stand upon one pair of legs and have four pairs of clawed arms, down from eight pairs of appendages.
Uplifted Animal: Due to the inherent magic of the Isles of Manaki, normal animals grew in both awareness and size. Over time, they became intelligent and now call themselves decapodians. There are two types of decapodians: the ‘ula’ula, which evolved from lobsters, and the mant-i, which evolved from mantis shrimp.

Kia'i

Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes: The kia'i spend most of their time away from the bright sun, which hurts their sensitive eyes.
Gender Bender: Nearly all kia'i are born female. As they grow old and can no longer spawn, they transform into male, generally growing larger in size.
Gender Rarity Value: Because male kia'i are only born very rarely, and only the oldest females turn into males, kia'i society is patriarchal, with the males leading their communities.
Half-Human Hybrid: It is possible for a kia'i and a human to produce offspring, although only one such hybrid has been born in the Isles' history.
In Harmony with Nature: The kia'i are focused on living in harmony with and protecting the world around them.
Worthless Yellow Rocks: The kia'i care little for wealth or outward trappings of power, which has affected their dealings with land dwellers, who are considered to be obsessed with such things.

Mirescale

Lizard Folk: Mirescales are humanoid dinosaurs with elongated armoured snouts, lengthy clawed legs, and stocky arms with strong sickle-clawed hands.
Meaningful Rename: Names aren't sacred to the mirescales and can be changed. For instance, once BrokenToe's toe heals, they might be called StubFoot.
True-Breeding Hybrid: When a rogue boat of brave poachers loaded with trange caged creatures was led to the Entropy Abyss, it sunk into a hidden font of transformative magic. No one knows exactly what happened inside, but when the sailors emerged, the Abyss had fused them with the creatures they carried into a single species: the mirescales.

Creatures

Ecliptic

Defeat Equals Explosion: Ecliptic scavengers that have eaten their fill become swollen and explode in a burst of toxin when destroyed.
Fiendish Fish: Ecliptic shockers, who are responsible for searching out organic lifeforms for collection, resemble lithe eels with elongated snouts similar to a sawfish.
Horse of a Different Color: Serving as draft horse workers, ecliptic haulers transport scavengers to wherever needs cleansing and haul them (and their spoils) back to the Black Atoll once an area is stripped bare.
Luring in Prey: Ecliptic anglers' innate magic lets them create strange charms that dance above the water and lure prey towards them.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Depending on the materials the Star Breather had to work with at the time, ecliptic can look like any combination of tentacles, fins, claws, shark or barracuda jaws, sea urchin spines, octopus eyes, parts of intelligent creatures, or anything else that has been given to the Black Atoll.
Our Angels Are Different: Classified as celestials, ecliptic are extensions of the Star Breather, created whenever a direct physical approach is necessary. When first created, ecliptic are totally loyal to the Star Breather and dedicated to their assigned mission, but subsequent rebirths may weaken this attachment.
Voice of the Legion: Ecliptic hunters, who contain remnants of the souls of humanoid species, speak in a chorus of these souls.

Captain Keelhaul's Undead

Ghost Pirate: Captain Keelhaul raises undead from sunken sailors, culled from shipwrecks in the seas he terrorised in life.
Horror Hunger: These undead's ravenous appetite exceeds any normal undead's.

Abysses Piscator

Luring in Prey: Abysses piscators are large hunters who draw in small creatures with hypnotic patterns, and clamp their jaws around each unsuspecting meal before they realise the situation.

Dreparous

Undead Child: The dreparous is an undead dragon that died while still in the egg.

Fungaloid

Forced Sleep: In combat, fungaloids first use their sleep spores to put opponents to sleep.
Poisonous Person: Fungaloids defend themselves by releasing poisonous spores at attackers.

Minax

Dying Race: The minax were sealed away in an underground tomb where they were made unaging but sterile. Over the centuries, they killed each other until only a hundred remain. However, once the seals are broken, the curse making them sterile is broken as well, and depending on the party's actions, they may have a chance to flourish after all.
Flawed Prototype: The Star-Breather's first attempt at an aquatic race was the minax, but it grew dissatisfied with their independent natures, aggressiveness, and reverence for strength, so it sealed them away in a city-turned-tomb buried under the sea floor.

Star Breather

Greater-Scope Villain: The greatest threat to the Isles is the Star Breather, the god who created them in the first place. Drawn back to the Isles when Kada attempted to manipulate the Ichor it left behind, it is disgusted with what it sees, so it creates an army of ecliptic to strip the Isles of life so it can then annihilate them and recreate them. The ultimate mission is to confront the Star-Breather and either convince it to leave the Isles in peace or drive it away — without killing it, because doing that will destroy the Isles anyway!
Load-Bearing Boss: Since the Star Breather is the ultimate source of life of the Isles, if the party kills it or uses the wrong command with the mega-spell that can affect its mind, then they will wipe the Isles and everything on them from existence.
The Maker: The Star Breather's fundamental nature is to be in a constant state of creation and abandonment. It spends its time roaming foreign worlds and creating its own worlds, placing a part of itself in each grand design.