Sirens

**Sirens** are the most intelligent of the sea monsters (siren, **mermaid** and **mermen**.) they rule the sea and are the most evil. Keto was a goddess afteral and the sirens are closest to her. Sirens mermaids and mermen in the book **To Kill a Kingdom**.

## **Appearance**

Sirens are beautiful women with sharp claws and pointy ears and instead of legs they have a shiny fish tail. They have little imperfections and usually have features that humans would find attractive. Every siren has two different eye colors and each one has a tail of a different color. When becoming the sea queen their tail is replaced with tentacles and they grow in size.

## **History**

### **Birth**

Sirens were born from the dark waters of the endless sea, the ones surrounding Polemistes. Alongside their goddess and their brethren the mermaids and mermen. They eventually left to the sea of Diavlos. Leading them was **Keto** who for unknown reasons swore revenge on the humans, she sent her beasts to torment the **original families**.

### **Sea Queens**

Luckily back then humans had access to magical powers and so they used these to combat the devils, they teamed up and defeated Keto once and for all. The war did not end there and the descendants of Keto kept the fight going however instead of invading the land humans and sirens would only be allowed to fight if they just happened to cross paths. This spawned a deadly tradition where each birthday a siren would swim to find a human and take their heart and kill them.

The Sea Queen seen in the book had spent years searching for the second eye of keto so she could use its power to take her reign even farther. She would have made the humans suffer greatly, just like her ancestor. She was unable to find it but she did manage to learn how to free it, how to use it’s power and everything it could do, she then taught her daughter Lira about this. The Sea Queen and the royal family now hide away in the center of the Diavlos Sea where they are protected. They live in a castle made from the bones of Keto and send their monsters to do the dirty work for them.

### **Peace**

After many centuries the princess **Lira** and Prince's Bane, after trying to avoid a punishment and getting a possibly worse one, she befriends the human prince of Midas and after a hard battle with her mom ends the war once and for all.

## **Known Sirens**

* **Sea Queen**
* **Lira**
* **Kahlia**
* **Crestell**
* **Maeve**

## **Other Lore**

### **Eye colors**

Every siren has two colored eyes one that's the color of the ocean they were born in and a second that represents them and their accomplishments. The known color meanings are below:

(Of Diavlos sea)
(Earned from murder, rage and being merciless)
(Of Diavlos sea)
(Default color for left eye)
(Sea Queens have two red eyes)
(Earned from murder, rage and being merciless)
(Of Diavlos sea)
(Represents heroism, kindness, maybe earned from protecting people)
(Of Diavlos Sea)
(Unknown)

### **Aging**

Sirens age very slowly, they are technically immortal unless killed. Also sirens are the only of the sea monster who have to breed like humans do while mermaids can reproduce asexually sirens have to breed with a merman. When the sea queen collects 60 hearts she retires and her princess takes her place. The sirens steal hearts from humans to mark their birthdays and keep track of age. Some weaknesses of sirens are high pitched noises that make them go crazy and silver that burns their skin.