Proteus Greyglimmer
the Ironwake Merman
Named for the first flash of lightning in a grey storm, and the shape he takes from the wreckage of ships—metal warped by salt and fire.
Power
You can call a single lightning bolt from a clear sky, but it always strikes something you love, and you have never learned to aim it away.
- Familiar
- a metal-stained crab named Splint
- Tide
- the Stormglass Tides
You keep a compass that points to the last place a ship sank, not to north. The glass is cracked and the needle trembles, but it has never lied to you. That is how you found the others—the ones who went down under thunder and broken masts, their voices tangled in the rigging. You do not raise them; you only remember them, and that is enough.