Tarian Marlinveil
the Cinderseer Merman
Named for the thunder that sounds before a vent eruption, and the veil of ash that falls after.
Power
Ashwhisper — you can read the history of anything in the cinders it leaves, but each inhalation fills your lungs with the last breath of what burned, and your chest grows heavier with every secret.
- Familiar
- A charcoal-scaled vent crab named Grate
- Tide
- the Smolder Drift
You keep a glass jar of ash from the black vents, and you have never once opened it. You tell yourself it is because the seal is too tight—but you know the truth: you are afraid of what the ash remembers of you, and more afraid of what it will forget.