Lachlan Ghostwater
the Coralflare Merman
Named for the first name's lake-warrior roots and the surname's pale water that burns like cold fire—you are the laugh that bubbles up from a hidden vent, warm and strange.
Power
Warmcurrent — you can coax coral to bloom in a sudden, bright flurry of heat and color, but each bloom leaves a fleck of ash on your skin, and you must sleep in the deepest cold afterward.
- Familiar
- a ruby-bellied nudibranch named Glim
- Tide
- the Laughing Vent
They say you first appeared in a tidepool, blowing smoke rings through the water, teaching a hermit crab to tap dance on a broken shell. You never correct the story; it's close enough. You prefer the company of things that don't ask where you came from, and the reef has never asked a single question.