Triton

also known as the Merfolk, are a race of seemingly half human and half fish people who were created by the two sea gods, unusually for them, working together in or around the year 19,000 B.E.

\*the lore for the tritons was developed by one of Kennedy's friends Zesty.

## Biology

as stated in the introduction for this page, merfolk resemble for the most part human fish hybrids as in their upper bodies of those of scaled humans but with gill slits along the length of the torso and than from the waist-down, they have a massive tail that ends in a pair of horizontal flippers that help to propel the merfolk through the sea: however thanks to the tail they are on average 9 feet long with a maximum of 15 feet and three hundred pounds in weight or more depending on length.

In terms of colouration many have blueish hues to their skin and scales, but not only are other colours available such as red, white, or purple, the skin and scales might be vastly different colours and it really just depends on the individual triton in question.

due to a unique quirk in their biology, only one in ten triton are males, another 3-in-10 are infertile non-binary merfolk, and than the remaining are female.

## History.

While little is known about the early history of the Triton/mer-folk, it is known that they were created in or around the year 19000 BE by Fjor and Bayo working together in an attempt to mend their broken relationship, which obviously failed but the two brothers did manage to create the Mer-folk, each embedding a part of their own personality onto half of the population.

Since than, the triton have as a result of their climatic limitations when it comes to metal working, tend to be behind the land dwellers with the only metal they are able to work into their own shapes being bronze, and even than that it created in hidden forges carves into cracks of the sea floor.

## Culture.

As a result of their gender-balance, most triton settlements are matriarchal, with the males being kept behind in the settlement's center building maintaining the duty of impregnating as many females as possible and spending their spare time creating art work or the likes. Where as the nonbinary mer-folk fulfill their own traditional role of settlement guards, last of all, the females serve as the spokeswomen of the settlements, and do the hunting, and if the particular settlement has it, farming for the settlement when they are not selling their services as traders between the different species of the surface and other aquatic species.

however there is a subculture that exists amongst the Triton who believe that the waves are their's and all who use it must pay tribute to the triton, most of these live in strongholds deep in the ocean floor, often times within cracks providing additional protection, however they will commonly camp out along sea trade routes waiting for ships to pass by, and if they see one they will first attempt to force them into paying tribute and if that fails, they will attack the ship and take whatever they can.

### Settlements:

unlike their land dwelling counterparts, the tritons have created a grand total of 31 city states scattered across the sea floor, plus another estimated two hundred villages, each occupied by a different tribe of Merfolk.