Tarian Stormdrift
the Lunarshield Merman
Named for Tarian, an old word for shield, and the half-moon scar that marks where a pearl was born in your chest.
Power
Pearlskin — you can draw moonlight into your skin, turning it to a hard white that deflects blade and tooth, but each use dims a piece of your memory, and you forget a little more of the surface world each time.
- Familiar
- A bioluminescent comb jelly named Wisp
- Tide
- the Pearl-Shed Tide
You were scraping barnacles off a forgotten mooring post when the moon rose full and split. One half stayed in the sky; the other fell into your chest and turned your bones to pearl. You didn't drown that night. You became the thing that water remembers.