If there were a world like this, where at high tide the entire planet became an endless ocean, and at low tide most of the water flowed into the planet's core, leaving behind land with only a few remaining water sources.
Would such a world be interesting, or simply broken?
For the Landscale race living in Tides, it was interesting enough.
To us Landscale folk, the world we named Tides was a fish. The rise and fall of the tide was the fish breathing, and the beings living on Tides were its scales.
As for why we believed the tides were its breath, the elders offered a reason I could not refute. The timing of sea and land was always precise. Aside from the ten or so days of transition during high tide and low tide, the ocean phase and the land phase of Tides each lasted two hundred days.
Perfectly regular, like breathing.
We were part of the world, living on the surface of its body, breathing alongside it.
And just like that, everything made sense.
