Drowner Mures

## Physical Description

### Skin

Based on skin color in life, but darker/bluer and more discolored than it was when alive. Pulsing black veins can be seen through the skin.

## Useful Information

### Tips

The tip to dealing with drowners is to be ready for them, I implore you to approach bodies of water where anyone may have died with caution. If you do however startle a Drowner Mure, I suggest keeping your distance; as well as making sure you are not in the water with it because you may surely become their supper.

## Other Information

### Behavior

Lie in wait, floating atop of the water or just below the surface, until its prey come close enough then it attacks,

### Diet

Anything with a beating hear, seem to prefer intelligent creatures

"*I am Captain Daniels and this is my here ship, we are tasked as fishermen and it is our job to 'fish' drowners out of the water before the mus gets em. I am yer captain and I expect every order I make to be followed or ye can join the bodies in the ocean." - Captain Daniel's to the Seekers of the Forgotten when they were first put under his command in Kilead*

The word 'Drowner' is a 'common' phrase to mean a body that floats lifeless in the water, whether it met its end through the tragedy of drowning or by any other means. But this term quickly began to be attributed to mures that have risen from this unfortunate group of individuals. While I have made the distinction in the title of this paper, please note that any time I use the term "Drowner" I attribute it to the Drowner Mure not simply a lifeless body.

Drowners are quite interesting and peculiar to me, being that the Isles are all surrounded by the Oceans; I theorize that Drowners are probably one of the most common mures to be seen by common folk. Most peoples I have visited on the coasts, no matter how primitive seem to have some kind of superstitions or fears related to the dead and water. I'll confess to getting a large number of my "subjects" (if you can even ascribe that title to such beasts) from the 'fishers' of Kilead. Who are tasked with removing bodies from around the city's port so Drowners don't wash up.

If you know anything about the science of anatomy, for humans at least. You know that bodies left in the water bloat and fill with gas, their eyes protrude from their cranium, and the tongue bulges grossly out of the mouth. They become clammy to the touch and their epidermis 'slips', creating huge flaps of loose skin which can be wiped off easily with a light touch. This is known to cause a phenomenon on the hands or feet known as 'degloving'. Which means the skin detaches from the body in the same fashion as a glove. The longer a body remains submerged or partially submerged the more noticeable these properties are, and the softer the skin becomes.

Drowner Mures bear a resemblance to this, just as bloated and waterlogged as a drowned body. But their skin seems to tighten and become more rubbery and tough in some areas while remaining soft and weak in others. The body also gains the strange blueish black tint and dark black eyes prevalent in grievers. Their body cavity swells with gas that then seems to putrefy within stomach region, and create a vile black acid that then pumps through the dead creature's veins; because of this I needed to be extra careful performing my dissections on these intriguing specimens. As well as just pumping through the veins, Drowners seem to possess the ability to 'vomit' up this acidic substance quite a reasonable distance. I can't figure out exactly how this substance is created, but I theorize it has to do with the mixture of gases and natural fluids within the body coming in contact with the vile forces of mus and mutating.

When first discovering drowners, I was very early along in my studies so I classified them simply as Grievers. Their behavior was similar to that of the grievers I had seen in the crypts and sewers of Kilead, but as I learned and became more knowledgeable in the field of mures I became to realize that Drowners were a 'species' in the overlying group of mures known as Grievers.