Hadar Anchorcurrent
the Embercoral Merman
Named for the star that burns below the waves and the coral that clings to the deep thermal vents, marking a place where fire and sea refuse to choose.
Power
Emberanchor — you can root yourself to the seabed with a burst of heat, melting sand into glass and coral into molten spires. The cost is stillness: you cannot move until the glass cools, and you are left exposed.
- Familiar
- a volcanic snail named Pyrope
- Tide
- the Glowing Deep Tide
You keep a piece of sea-glass that once held a star's light, melted from a meteorite that struck the reef. You do not know why it chose you, only that it hums when the tides shift, and you have worn it against your chest for so long the coral has grown around it like a second skin.