Mermaid

### Skin colours

Blue skin undertones ranging from deep burgundy through many shades of violet, blue, green, bright orange, and yellow

### Hair colours

Same as Multisens plus white, shades of green and blue

### Eye colours

Same as Multisens plus white, black

**Mermaids** are aquatic humanoids with bodies that are half 'Multisen' and half 'fish'. Mermaids can only be blessed with 'Orange' or 'White' magic. They are a type of Beastfolk .

Mermaids rarely go to the surface, as they cannot talk with their vocal cords above water, can't physically metamorphose to have legs, and they don't get along with mainland species.

## Basic Infomation

Although they might have originally, Mermaids top halves don't look exactly like a Multisens. Mermaids have tails, scaly upper bodies, fangs, claws, webbed hands and webbed underarms. They also have a large, single fish-like fin running down their Multisenic back, three long sets of webbed fins running down their tails (one along the back, and two smaller ones each positioned on the side of the tail), and a stinger growing out between the caudal fins.

Mermaids are all female, and reproduce asexually.

Mermaids are an omnivorous people, both harvesting underwater plant life and hunting aquatic animals to eat. They were also known to herd and raise certain species of fish, much like surface dwellers did with livestock. Mermaids live in artic, deep, open, tropical water.

Freshwater mermaids used to be around, but they are now extinct.

## Civilisation and Culture

Mermaids live in colonies, which then each have an Alpha, there leader.

**Semyreni Myths:** To fully undergo the adolescent changes from mermaid-like creatures into Multisen-legged Semyreni need to frequently be breathing air. As the Semyreni have a natural fear of mermaids the training of breathing above water is very strict, particularly for the rich Semyreni children, whose parents can afford lessons and permanent nanny care. The children who grow up early are revered as being intelligent, diligent and biologically better than the others.

Poorer families who cannot afford nanny-care and whose mother and father have to work, can't care for their children as frequently and teach them to breathe above water, therefore they tend to develop later in life. This later leg development can also lead to teens running off, then coming into contact with mermaids as they get further from their home. As they can swim better than their legged parents they can't be stopped.

This gives the impression that mermaids are misbehaving Semyreni children who refused to listen to their parents and grew wild. Semyreni believes that mermaids chose to be the way they are, because they were too scared or too weak-minded to breathe above water frequently. Which is not true, true mermaids cannot grow legs, but many Semyreni believe they can if they had just tried harder as children. Some Semyreni think that mermaids cannot have their own children as they are all female and so they steal the children of Semyreni. Or the later developing Semyreni may begin to fall in love with a mermaid and run away to be with them.

**Multisen Myths:** Multisens often get Sirens and Mermaids mixed up. Multisens believe that all Sirens lure sailors towards rocky shores via their hypnotic singing, causing the sailors to crash into the rocky coast of their island, meeting a watery demise, for fun. This makes Multisens fear mermaids, especially since mermaids are twice the size of Multisens.

Mermaids are neutral towards most aquatic life forms. Mermaids have had little contact with land dwellers.