Editing LeviathanTempest:AppendThree (section)

==Ecology ==
The Rift, like the mundane ocean, is a deceptively empty place, prowled by ungainly beasts. Memories take form down there, as well as neuroses, phobias and dark impulses which become predator beasts, parasitic worms or spiked monstrosities. There are islands made up of the bones of Progenitors, hard remaining nuggets of a sense of identity long left behind by a dead monster-god. From time to time, one can find fossilised information about older times, sometimes guarded by the psychological complex which gave it worth to the long-disappeared creature that knew them. 

This is why Leviathans brave the dangers of the Rift: because despite all it forces them to face, they can find things forgotten by all under the surface of this dark, unsettling realm. The natural dangers of the Rift are many, but the Leviathan also brings some with him. Any person who goes into the Rift while possessing Derangements creates one monster for each of them. These are highly personalised, sometimes quite cunning beings, who want nothing more than the death of their originator as an overall solution to their own existence. Killing them does not destroy the Derangement, either: it is still just as present when the Afflicted person gets back to the Shore. 

The Rift possesses a strange structure, like an inverted cone. At the surface, the Rift seems endless, as unfathomably wide as the myriad minds that it reflects are. But the deeper one goes, the more constrained you feel, until at the deepest, down in the dark, where you reach the oldest, most primordial beings and memories, you feel that all of the world is a single oppressive point and individuality is a lost concept. This is where the most dangerous creatures of the Rift survive, where the most incomprehensible lore can be found, inscribed in illegible alphabets on the surface of rock walls that seem to be the inside of your own skull. 

Going deeper yet would, according to Tribe lore, allow a Leviathan to find the Primordial Sea again. Beyond the Tempest, coming out of the other end, so to speak, lie the tranquil, perfect and awesome world that Leviathans truly belong to. needless to say, no one who has reached it has come back to tell the tale.