Vernal Moonwater
the Ventspring Merman
Named for the hot spring that boils up through a moonlit fissure, and the first green shoot that survived the steam.
Power
Steamcall — you can boil the water around you into a blinding mist, but each use leaves your scales cracked and dry until the next full tide.
- Familiar
- a scaly-foot snail named Pyre
- Tide
- the Steam-Crack Tide
Every dusk, you swim to the deepest vent field and let the heat crack your skin, because the pain reminds you that you are still real. The snails there glow like embers, and one of them — Pyre — never leaves your side, even when the water goes black and cold.