Llemulin

**Llemülin** or Stormfolk are a type of Senet Beast that survived the ending of the Senet World, as both Waterwomen and Stormbringers are capable of regrowing their bodies from a seed-like core. "Waterwomen will regrow a lost limb or an entire lost body [when submerged in water], provided their pearl is intact, [until] they reach the shape they were created in." "Stormbringers have removable hearts just like waterwomen do, though intangible. They’re concrete metaphysical structures, made of the same stuff as khert lines - even similar to human souls, in their way." Like all Senets they cannot reproduce.

Waterwomen speaking in a human tongue sound "breathy, quiet and unnatural. [They] have very different lungs and vocal cords from [humans], with voices that seem to be coming more from their chests than their mouths. This is because they mechanically speak [by] using inhalation rather than exhalation." While food helps them heal injures and regrow they do not otherwise need it, eating for the enjoyment of it rather than for sustenance. Waterwoman have the ability to manipulate water they are in direct contact with, "creating a contiguous field of moisture" with the water currently acting as their blood. Those that look like babies are prema-babies. “They’ve been babies longer than the moon’s been round.” "There are also senet who are perma-old. The Makers created many senet beasts at different “stages” of existence without first thinking up a way to move them from stage to stage. The closest they got was the waterwomens’ “pearl,” which acts almost like a seed once it’s removed from them, regrowing them to exactly the “stage” their body was designed to remain at. It was a neat idea, but they didn’t come up with - or at least did not implement - the concept of birth, growth, change, ageing, and death, until they started up the Second World and all the creatures within it[. T]he waterbabies’ minds don’t mature. They are like developmentally delayed humans who just aren’t mentally equipped to develop past a certain “age.” A waterbaby that looks about three is always going to be in the headspace of about a three year old, even if they remain in that body for a couple thousand years."

"Stormbringers [...] have no capacity to retain memories; only a simple intelligence, a few instincts, and the ability to control water vapour and air pressure. They never reform in the same shape and sometimes they don’t look like stormbringers at all. [On occasion one feels generous and] just wants to be a fat lazy cloud with no face and cast shade on a construction crew putting a roof on a new house. These are the kinds of small “divine” acts humans once appreciated them for. Stormbringers will stick around in an individual form for as long as they’re interested and someone is interested in them. [Once they drop a form they'll have no memories of their time in it, just drifting to follow their tribe until they reshape themselves into a new form. T]hese are not concerns to the stormpeople. They all love each other and value each other simply for being there. And of course clouds are always changing shape. That’s what clouds do!"

"Waterwomen travel with the seasons and flee from the cold. At high winter the southernmost rivers and southern coast will be teaming with stormfolk from all over the world playing and fighting and frigging and telling stories about what they did all year. New Arlit develops into Kasslyne’s very own tempestuous Cape Horn, and sailors give it a wide, wide berth.
The rest of the year stormfolk are pretty territorial, but not mindlessly so. If a waterwoman or stormbringer is lost and wanders into the wrong waterway they’ll give them directions or a helping hand - but they better not stick around too long."

Before the rise of the Gefendur religion humans often worshiped stormfolk and gave them snacks as sacrifices in return for good weather and safe waters, "stormbringers [were] especially revered for bringing the rains." "Eventually they were seen less as divine representations of the waterways of the world and its mysterious, capricious weather, and more as pests." Then humans just started killing them.

Ynira is a mighty tribe of oceanic waterwomen from Ynira Bay in southern Cresce, whose clan of Inak worshipers is still called the Children of Ynira even after the Red Marches forced them from their homes and made them convert, or act as though they had converted, to the Gefendur faith which derides the inak and senets as nothing more than beasts. Minnow is a displaced ocean waterwoman who lives in the River Jarla and is worshiped by the Inak who were forcibly moved south during the Red Marches to the shores near the Litriya Shrine, though they traditionally worshiped Shaensigin and are from the clan known as the Children of Shaensigin. They thought it likely the salt lizard they once worshiped died fighting for them alongside most of their people, and were too far from her caves to interact with her anymore anyway if she had survived.

## Avatars

"A waterfolk group is itself like its own organism. They’re all designed to operate as a tribal unit and cycle members in and out via removing their pearls and regrowing them. It’s posited this was the Makers really trying to figure out how to make these senets renewable and interesting, before they thought up biological reproduction. Kasslynians also see it as proof of human reincarnation.

The waterfolks’ avatar is their tribal leader and makes decisions for the group. It’s a necessary and deliberate part of that communal body. The stormbringer boys used to have something similar - giant white albatross counterparts that served as their memories. But these were all killed by humans."

## Etymology

Called *llemulin* in Tainish and divided into Waterwomen and Stormbringers in Continental they divide themselves into river-things and ocean-things, and further into tribes. Kasslynians have many colloquial names for them including waterfolk, stormfolk, waterwitches and Stormies.

## In *Unsounded*

Sette Frummagem's father Nary-A’Care Frummagem told her her mother was killed by waterwomen, but Knock-Me-Down Frummagem thinks it one of Nary's lies.

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