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Rhiahan

Lore[]

They had gone much too far. The humans had been on friendly terms with the merfolk until they abducted a number of them some days past. As queen of the merfolk school, Rhiahan attempted to negotiate peaceful terms for their release, yet the humans would not admit to their wrongdoing. Realizing that humans now saw her kind as little more than the catch of the day, she rallied her people for aggressive maneuvers.

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A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. The word mermaid is a compound of the Old English mere (sea), and maid (a girl or young woman). Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. Mermaids are associated with the mythological Greek sirens, half-bird femme fatales whose enchanting voices would lure soon-to-be-shipwrecked sailors to nearby rocks, sandbars or shoals.

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