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Mer are a species of Vanir belonging to the House of Many Waters.
Physical Description[]
Mer have a long tail covered in scales, their colorations varied and vibrant: different coloring, stripes or specks or solids, their tails long-finned or short or wispy. They have gills beneath his ears, that allow them to breathe underwater and claw-tipped, webbed hands, which are helping them to swim.
Known Mer[]
- Lesia Ketos †
- Tharion Ketos
- The River Queen (half)
- The River Queen's Daughter (part)
Powers & Abilities[]
The Mer are able to shift into fully human bodies for short periods of time, but if they go for too long, the shift will be permanent, their scales drying up and flaking away into dust, their gills shrinking to nothing. They have to swim at least once a day - even though a big tub filled with water will suffice. Their magic mostly involves the element in which they live, though some can summon tempests. The River Queen, part-mer, part river-spirit, is rumored to summon far worse.
Trivia[]
- Mer tend to live in a network of underwater caves that double as apartments for them.[citation needed]
- Mer also sleep in seaweed hammocks.[citation needed]
- The food they consume is normally soggy, cold, and wet.[citation needed]
- As revealed by The Ocean Queen, the Mer (and possibly the Elementals, as the Ocean Queen and her sisters are half-River-Spirit), are the original magical species of Midgard, with the Ocean Queen admitting that she and her sisters have been around since prior to the Asteri and Fae's arrival, having originally shared the world with Humans.[citation needed]