Nereus Brinebrook
the Pearlgrave Merman
Named for the salt-brook that meets the sea and for the ancient sea-god of truth, born of the marriage of fresh water and the abyss.
Power
Pearlshroud — you can draw shadows around you into a tangible cloak that muffles sound and light, but each time you do, a pearl forms in your chest that you must spit out, and you are slowly filling your own grave with them.
- Familiar
- a cormorant named Bale
- Tide
- the Shade-Flood
You keep a single pearl in your mouth at all times; it is the only thing that reminds you that you are not made of shadow. Once, it was the only light in a trench so deep that even the jellyfish forgot to glow.