Brine Reefcall
the Brinefire Merman
Named for the salt-hot springs that boil from the seafloor's wounds, and the reef that grew its first bones around them.
Power
Ventburn — you can ignite the methane trapped in cold seeps and hydrothermal plumes, turning the water to a flash of pale fire, but the explosion leaves you deaf for hours and the vents remember your trespass.
- Familiar
- A yeti crab named Scoria
- Tide
- the Boiling Drift
You watch the anemones pulse around the vent chimney. They are counting time for you—one pulse per century. They have never been wrong. The last time you spoke with a surface-dweller, you were mistaken for a god of the abyss, but you are only the first thing that ever learned to live in the boiling dark.