Eivor

CONTENT WARNING: *cannibalism mention.*

**`*“I am Eivor, the leader of* *the Black Sea mermaids.”*`**

Eivor is the leader of the Black Sea mermaids, a marginized mermaid group living in the Black Sea.

She is a socially-awkward, primitive mermaid whose most important thing is to protect her village and lead them well.

## Biography

Eivor is a diligent, direct leader of her mermaids. With them, she feels comfort, but also the duty to protect and care for them. She helps in the hunts and leads the defenses when they are threatened by deep-sea monsters, winning the subtitle of "The Defender" between the mermaids.

She was chosen by the previous leader of the Black Sea mermaids and, during the tests of fate, she standed out in the artesany and combat test, proving her strenght but also her sensitivity.

But interacting with other people outside the Black Sea mermaids, she feels awkward, defensive, wary of others intentions, as she doesn't trust "outsiders" easily. It becomes hard for her to start and mantain conversations, coming out as "quite" and "rude" most of the times, but that's okay with her, because she doesn't care about other's opinions on herself with the exception of her dear protegees.

## Appearance

### Mermaid

As a mermaid, Eivor has a very different appearance.
She has light, grey-ish skin, pointy teeth, and long dark hair. Her eyes have black scleras and white irises.
Her tail is white with red membrane. She has two scars: one on her left upper arm, and another crossing her abdomen.
Wears an arm bracelet and a belt with traditional symbols.

### Human

Her hair instead of pure black is a dark shade of brown, her eyes too become brown. She has white skin and keeps her scars. Her built is strong, though she is not very tall.

### Black Sea mermaids

*`"Haven't you heard? The rumors.... There are **cannibal mermaids** in the Black Sea."`*

The Black Sea is a marginal sea with various special conditions (such a low oxigenated water and hard access). These conditions have forced the development of the mermaid's physicall and cultural evolution.

The Black Sea mermaids are a few, a handful of hundreds, and live in the deepest parts of the sea to avoid human contact. They feed on local fauna and flora.

Their marginalization with other groups of mermaids and the reluctance to going out of their sea themselves have made a unique culture, to the point the new generations don't even know that other mermaids exist, as they stopped coming because of the hard access to those waters many years ago, and so other mermaid groups forgot aboout them. So, they evolved parallely to their comrades.

These mermaids have a primitive form, more monster-like than human, have weapons to hunt and have tattoos and marks with aesthetic purposes. Their eyes are adapted to darkness and their body has strong gills to filter the low oxigen that's in the Black Sea water, they almost can't breath outside water.

They swim with great strenght and speed, and since they are a small village, take a lot of care of eachother, reacting violent to threats.

As a village, they have a lot of rituals they have been following since practically the start of their times, like the Trials of Fate, and the funeral ritual.

The Black Sea mermaids are **not a kingdom** and therefore Eivor is **not actually a princess.**