I've been working over a possible Khinasi campaign with a player and we
started collaborating on what the Masetian people might have been like. I
don't know of any real references outside of CotS for these disappeared
folk, but from the look of names and the pictures in CotS about the
Serpents realm, we have basically assumed that they were very Greek/Roman.
(The Serpent's boats are essentially Triremes - which BTW I just read a
Scientific American article on - a VERY interesting design by a VERY
interesting people, more ingenious by far than what my ancestors in the
Atlantic made due with)

I'd like to gather whatever opinions anyone else has about these people and
what they might have been like. My chief interest is so that I might be
able to create more accurate ruins for their culture, and an idea of how
they might have viewed the BR pantheon and names they might have used, etc.

I can just see their perception of Haelyn as a Zeus-like character,
passionately throwing thunder and lightning at those who displeased him,
but subservient to the mighty goddess of the seas, inscrutable Masella (for
after all, how could any land bound god ever face up to a sea which could
swallow all land whole - they've got to have a flood myth somewhere! )

Semi-unrelated - If anyone missed "They Odyssey" with Armand Asante on
American TV about a year ago, their perception of Poseidon when he spoke to
Odysseus was impressive to say the least. Great rolling breakers with a
vaguely human face booming its displeasure at the triumphant and pitiful
human.