Any reasons for a primal aquatic race to build land-based villages?
Imagine a sentient species with these attributes:
- not very advanced (think primal tribes)
- can breathe underwater
- good swimmers
- feed on seafood (fish, algae)
- live in a high fantasy world with orcs/elves/etc
The specimen are amphibious and can live on surface as well. They have no larval stage, their children are water-breathing from birth. In a Earth-like world, what reasons could they have to build coastal (but not underwater) villages?
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Nesting.
Your creature has reached a key stage in its evolutionary development. It has advanced from digging a hole on the beach, laying its eggs, and trusting to fate. Its instincts now compel it to protect and nourish the valuable next generation, and even provide some rudimentary parental care after hatching. The next step after that is to build structures around the nest site, and further to engage in cooperative behavior in ensuring shelter for the nest site and feeding of the hatchlings.
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