Vael Deepreef
the Coralthrone Merman
Named for Vael, a word for the sea's slow grip, and Deepreef, the sleeping city of coral you were raised to guard.
Power
Coralbound — you can command reef coral to grow or retreat, shaping stone and bone into walls or open paths, but every command leaves a calcified scar on your own skin, and your body is becoming a map of the citadels you have built.
- Familiar
- a stonefish named Imperator
- Tide
- the Stonedeep Tide
Every dusk you swim a slow circuit of the reef's hollows, checking the corals for the pale rot that dreams of eating the city whole. You have not found it yet, but you know it is coming, and you have already picked the stones that will hold the new walls.