Mer

The Mer claim to be the oldest race on our world and I for one believe them. They know the undersea like no one else. They have absolute dominion over the deep, well except for the AbyssalDeep which they they avoid like RotFin.

They are ruled by QueenMyriada. She's a daunting sort but fair.

Drylanders, unless they visit the deep, hardly see the Mer; They only breathe water, they only have tails, so life on the land is not something they relish. Mer rarely break surface.

They're a tad arrogant, especially where the Phoecenni and Myriapodia are concerned. They get along with us Selkie fine, probably because they feel responsible for the Rending.

Those rumors about Mer eating drylanders? That's a just a fairy tail, dearies. One I advise not sharing.

-- by GithsemeTyar

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Just as drylanders can easily go their whole lives without seeing a Mer, so the reverse is true. Mer youths also tease each other about the surface and spread stories about landers eating them. Of course, adults recognize these fabrications for what they are, and ignore them.

No matter how strong a swimmer a Phoecenni, Selkie, Myriapodia or human is, a Mer will speed past them. They enjoy chances to remind others of this fact, and relish in competition among themselves. If anything could get them interested in breaking the surface more often, I wager it would be racing.

-- HalloaGrisau

Well, there are some rowdy Mer who DryAdapt enough to ride the tops of waves and heckle passing dryland sailors. More than once a RogueWave? or tsunami has tossed a young Mer upon a shore, at the mercy of fate, friendly drylanders, or painfully crawling back to the water.

More settled and wiser heads are content in the middle depths, where one is not tossed about like flotsam on the swells.

Myriapodia are much more sensible in how they mis-spend their youth.

-- by PythiaTwentyThree

I was impressed during my visit to the DeepCourt how much attention the Mer pay to dress and adornment, especially when assembling. Each of them with any connection bears buttons and toggles engraved with their family crest, as well as symbolic charms wrought of nacre, shell, and gold.

I asked about whether they used bone as ornament in the way of the TattooedGriffinRiders and was treated with great amusement. How was I to know that it crumbles and dissolves beneath the sea?

-- by LilyQuillpot

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