The fifth voyage is the first voyage Sindbad conducts on his own, useful plot point for giving a personality and background of new experience to a protagonist.
Other voyagers that join Sindbad on his voyages meet untimely ends due to bad luck or because of a lack of foresight for their environment and the consequences of their actions, such as breaking the Roc couple's egg. Could serve as supplementary material for a message of cool and evaluative composure in a new environment.
If I went the road of miniaturized people, is there a creature I can make more frightening that wouldn't normally come across that way at regular size?
Can we establish geography for societies that call back to Sindbad's happenings upon foreign countries? What if one society of people were living below the trees' roots, or another in a house across from a tree where another society lives?
What if Sindbad were a forager for food in his community instead of a merchant? It fits the world of the story I could write. He could also make a living off of this, still keeping the rags-to-riches element of the source story.
Maybe Sindbad could have a family, friend, or any motivation to move his character along through the plot?
Having Sindbad's actions recorded like in the sixth and seventh voyages would make a decent ending to a story like this. Leaving his experience and new findings out in the wilderness for future foraging groups.
With the tendency for him to get shipwrecked, what if Sindbad met another famous folklore figure on one of his voyages, like Odysseus? How would that go down, I wonder?
Sindbad even overcomes a trial with a bow and arrow in his seventh and final voyage, much like how Odysseus does in his return home. The two could bond in their old age about fantastical journeys and the merits of life coming out of even hardships like theirs.
Bibliography
Mythology and Folklore's The Voyages of Sindbad Unit, stories taken from Andrew Lang's The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
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