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Flying monsters are easy, perpetual threats. Even in the modern day, a child going missing after being snatched by a Hippogryph isn't too uncommon, at least the further away you are from the walls.
What about the seas? How dangerous are those?
What about more intelligent monsters, do they eventually integrate into society or are they driven back to special monster reserves?
I'd imagine even today a kraken or a sea serpent would be pretty hard to deal with
Maybe cargo ships are protected by armed escort vessels that have some sort of torpedos?
Depth charges. Torpedoes. Shock waves are brutal in water. And "Kracken" technically exist.
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Funnily enough I posted that as inspiration in a previous thread
When it comes to the seas I'm thinking treacherous on a good day the farther out you get the more dangerous monsters you start to encounter, the oceans are vast and hide all manner of creature both terrible and beautiful
That would encourage the use of airships for transportation and shipping
I don't think anyone would really trust a monster, no matter how intelligent it seems.
However, depending on the city and people nearby, I could see some sort of Monster Villages pop-up. They might use stuff that floats down river or abandoned adventurer huts to start their own towns.
From places like these, more monsters might join them and eventually become 'civilized'.
ooo thats a good justification for use of primarily airships!
So troll ghettos basically?
What about dragons? I'm partial to the shawdowrun style rich boy bad-ass dragons