Mermaids (Skylanders)

Mermaids are one of the water inhabitants of Skylands. However, they aren't always easy to get along with. They spend hours gazing at their own reflections in shimmering surfaces, they're constantly practicing holding their breath, and they become grumpy when their skin gets dry.Skylanders Universe: Book of Elements - Fire and Water, page 70 One of the Skylanders, Gill Grunt, has a mermaid girlfriend who was kidnapped by Pirates.
==Story==
===History===
For many years, the sailors of Skylands did their best to avoid merpeople because of an old legend warned that mermaids liked nothing more than luring unsuspecting crewmen to their deaths. Also, they're a bit weird-looking, and sailors aren't generally keen on weird-looking things. All that changed, however, when the captain of a trading ship accidentally knocked his seventy-year old mother-in-law overboard while showing her how to scrub the poopdeck. The poor woman would almost certainly have drowned had she not been rescued by a passing mermaid. The captain was said to be "sobbing with joy" when his mother-in-law was returned safe and well, and since that day mermaids have been looked on much more favorably.Skylanders Universe: Book of Elements - Fire and Water, page 71
===Skylanders: Gill Grunt and the Curse of the Fish Master===
The mermaids made their notable appearance in the novel, Gill Grunt and the Curse of the Fish Master, where they reside in the underwater Kingdom of the Merpeople ruled by King Scalebeard, Prince Aquan, and Princess Finella. They were soon controlled by Captain Grimslobber, who used the Fish Master's Crown to control the mermaids and force them to dig up gem-eels and haul them to the surface where he could become rich. His evil plot was stopped thanks to the Skylanders, and the merfolk were freed.
==References==
Category:Species (Skylanders)
Category:Skylanders: Gill Grunt and the Curse of the Fish Master
Category:Skylanders: Gill Grunt and the Curse of the Fish Master Characters