Dagon Nautilwake
the Coralflare Merman
Dagon, after the deep god of the First Sea; Nautilwake, for the phosphorescent trail left by your body as you swim through molten rock.
Power
Coralflare — you can coax fire from coral branches, turning them to ember-lit torches, but each flame consumes a bit of the reef, and the reef remembers.
- Familiar
- a fire-bellied jellyfish named Ember
- Tide
- the Caldera Drift
People say you were never born—that you stepped out of a seamount vent fully formed, eyes already burning. They say that when you pass, the coral glows for hours afterward, and that you leave a trail of tiny, bright deaths behind you like a signature. You have never denied this, because the truth is stranger: you woke in a shipwreck fused with reef, and the fire inside you is the only thing that keeps the cold dark at bay.