Talk:Underwater Islands/@comment-31855111-20170520041945/@comment-34888795-20180711195534

my theory is that the volcanic crater was a giant island, perhaps before the precursors even, and the whole thing sunk because... reasons. maybe precursors? plants adapted for water, and so did cave crawlers, eventually evolving further into bleeders, shuttlebugs, bloodcrawlers, etc. some kind of reptile evolved into lava lizards and stalkers, and other things evolved into alpha peeper/ray, etc.

floaters evolved in flooding underground caves (or maybe biologicly engineered by the precursors) and kept pieces of land afloat, most of wich sank under, forming those islands. one drifted away over the grand reef, and maybe due to less volcanic activity under it or just more floaters, stayed floating.