Fathom Ambercrest
the Shadowplumb Merman
Named for the fathom-mark where the sea goes from blue to black, and the amber ridge that is the last thing you see before the ink takes over.
Power
Inkveil — you can dissolve into a cloud of ink-dark shadow, becoming untouchable for a time, but each use stains a memory you can never bring back.
- Familiar
- a deep-sea tubeworm named Scribble
- Tide
- the Deadplumb Tide
Every dusk you descend to the wreck of the old drowned schooner and count the bones of the captain, their marrow black as squid ink. You have been doing this for three hundred years, and you still do not know why, only that the hull holds a darkness that tastes like your own name.