Tarian Brightspire
the Pyrebead Merman
Named for the single ember that remains lit at the heart of a coral spire, and the dusk light that catches its edges.
Power
Cinderweave — you can run your hand through molten coral and pull it into shapes, but the heat you borrow leaves you cold for days, and you must sleep in the warmest vent to recover.
- Familiar
- a glass anemone named Prism
- Tide
- the Pyrebead Tide
Every dusk you light the same spine of coral with your palm, just to see if it will glow this time. It never does. But you keep trying because you remember the one night it did, when the reef trembled and the water turned amber, and something answered from below that you still don't understand.