Iker Waveshoal
the Saltcrown Merman
Iker means 'visitation' in the old tongue; Waveshoal is the gathering of the tides where you were first seen seated on a throne of twisted kelp.
Power
Kelpthrall — you can command the kelp to rise and bind, but each command costs a strand of your own hair, and your hair does not grow back.
- Familiar
- a decorator crab named Cameo
- Tide
- the Saltcrown Tide
They say you were not born into the sea but came to it fully grown, and the kelp accepted you before the fish did. When you speak, the water thickens around your words, and the nearest elders nod as if you have said something wise—even when you have not. No one knows where you came from, only that you arrived with a crown of shells and never removed it.