Jonas Palesound
the Cinderblood Merman
Named for the pale hiss of steam escaping a vent, and the dove that flew into it and came out with embers in its throat.
Power
Hotspring — you can draw the heat from a vent into a lance of boiling water that cuts through cloud and flesh alike, but each time you do, your own blood runs a degree cooler and the deep cold stalks you.
- Familiar
- a blind vent shrimp named Fathom
- Tide
- the Black Sand Shoal
The great vent called the Hungry Mouth gave you its fire, but only after you surrendered your voice to the steam — now you speak in hot hisses and the clack of your teeth, and the other mer have learned to read the temperature of your silence.