Vodyanoy (EAPEU)

+ Other underwater settlements and submerged cities in the Great Sea and Pontar

### Habitat

Aquatic places like deep oceans and the depth of a river

### Predators

* Black Demon
* Leviathan
* Sea Serpent
* Witchers(?)

**Vodyanoy**, also known as **Deep Ones**, Vodyans, Ysgards, the fishpeople or fish-eyed creatures, are an intelligent race of low level Cosmic Horrors living in underwater cities at the bottom of the Great Sea, where their civilization is most advanced, as well as the Pontar river and its tributaries.

They are refugees from the colliding of The World and Atlantis World, their original home. They share the ocean with nereids and merpeople, though the only treat merpeople with the utmost respect and occasionally fight, while mostly ignoring the nereids. A subspecies of Vodyanoy that mated with sharks known as the Sahuagin came to be sometime in the past.

## History

### Elohim-Cosmic Horror War (1,000,000,000 BR to 300,000,000 BR)

It is known that at this time Dagon had already had the **Vodyanoy** serving him their home realm being Atlantis World where they stayed under the radar of the Protas until the end of the war where Dagon and his closest servants had to flee to the City of Ys where Dagon entered a death-like sleep to recover.

### The Conjunction of the Spheres and the Mixing of The World and Atlantis World (230 BR)

Dagon and his Vodyanoy were transported to the ocean of The World when it fused with Atlantis World, resulting in the relocation of the City of Ys to off the coast of what would become Bremervoord, in the depths of the Great Sea. The **Vodyanoy** spread out, populating the ocean and rivers while their master continues to recover from his war wounds.

## Physiology

**Vodyanoy** are roughly humanoid in shape with scaly skin and a set of muscular legs that allow them to run nimbly even on dry land. They have spherical bulging eyes described as iridescent and cold, betraying no emotion. On the other hand, their immensely broad maws full of conical teeth tend to resemble a cruel smile. **Vodyanoy** also can possess huge combs on their heads which make them look larger.

Living deep underwater, **vodyanoy** absorb oxygen through gills which get dilated when exposed to air. To survive on the surface for longer than few minutes the **vodyanoy** wear breathing masks that their civilization developed.

Strictly speaking there are two types of **Vodyanoy**, the larger **Ocean Vodyanoy** and the smaller **River Vodyanoy** which were born from the union of the original Ocean Vodyanoy and the smaller demi-human Sahagin race .

* **River Vodyanoy**: Adults are roughly 1.8 meters tall for about 200 years during which they will grow into a Greater River Vodyanoy roughly doubling in size, after a few millennia they will be 3 times the size of human and be considered an Ancient River Vodyanoy.
* **Ocean Vodyanoy**: Adults are roughly 2.5 meters tall for about 200 years during which they will grow into a Greater Ocean Vodyanoy roughly doubling in size, after a few millennia they will be 3.5-4 times the size of human and be considered an Ancient Ocean Vodyanoy. Ocean Vodyanoy are built tougher than their river cousins having tougher scales, darker colorations and a more vicious demeanor.

## Abilities

* **Fish People (Piscean) Physiology**: As basically fish people, Vodyanoy have the abilities that one would expect out of one.
	+ **Aquatic Adaptation**: **Vodyanoy** are able to survive and adapt to underwater environments, being able to breathe water in lieu of a gaseous breathing medium, to swim well and to endure high water pressure and extreme water temperatures. They are able to use their senses to perceive normally regardless of the distortion/pressure of the water, possibly including ignoring various impurities that would otherwise reduce the visibility.
		- **Aquatic Breathing**: **Vodyanoy** can breathe in both water and air (using a breathing apparatus). They are capable of staying underwater as long as they like and reemerge ready to breathe oxygen again.
	+ **Camouflage**: **Vodyanoy** underwater can visually blend into surroundings by blending in with the coloration and form of their background to avoid optical perception.
	+ **Dermal Armor** (via their scales): **Vodyanoy** have an innate armor as a part of their body, which is resistant to attacks, harm or pain, and temperature extremes.
		- **Scale Manifestation**: **Vodyanoy** have scales which possess greater durability than human skin though not weapon proof.
	+ **Enhanced Senses**: **Vodyanoy** have extremely accurate senses, allowing them to see, hear, smell, taste and feel better than the average human.
		- **Underwater Senses**: **Vodyanoy** possess extremely accurate senses while underwater, allowing them to see, hear, taste, feel and smell underwater with the utmost of clarity without having to lose any clearness in any of their own senses.
	+ **Speed Swimming**: **Vodyanoy** because of their Piscean physiology and their ancestry can swim at incredible speeds, unrestricted by water resistance.

## Behaviors

Vodyanoy can be found most anywhere with wide enough bodies of water to host them save for locations with Leviathans who will hunt them down if they enter their territory, a holdover instinct from the programming of Hydros.