Tiber Deepseawake
the Magma-Vent Merman
Named for the river Tiber, which carried the ashes of empires, and the deep-sea wakefulness of one who never fully rests.
Power
Ventfire — you can draw heat from hydrothermal vents to boil the water around you, stunning prey, but each use leaves a scar of cold in your chest that takes days to warm.
- Familiar
- a blind vent crab named Cinder
- Tide
- the Smoldering Tide
You will not leave the vent fields, even when the plates drift and the fissures close. The cost is solitude — you know every crater, every chimney, and the names of the creatures that live in the heat. You have not spoken to another of your kind in decades.