Merfolk

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The Merfolk are an aquatic humanlike race that have a long tail rather than two legs. They are possibly related to the Tritons in the very distant past before the Flood of Aturyanda. The merfolk have a physiology that is analogous to amphibians as the merfolk are able to breathe air in the water and air as a terrestrial creature. Merfolk have an average lifespan of about fifty years. The merfolk live in various undersea cities on seamounts in the western Pallathantic Sea, including Siul and Naquir. Culturally, the merfolk have acknowledged the rule of the goddess Dáwan in the undersea city of Siul. They are also inhabitants of several merfolk cities in the Sea of the Dead with Geddi as the capital. The Merfolk write their language with an adapted form of the Midretassene Alphabet.

The merfolk of Siul made a famous treaty with Erreagea, the regent of the Yophenthean Kingdom, in the mid fourth century AI. According to legend, this is when the Erechórebese adopted a form of the Midretassene Alphabet which the merfolk introduced to them to record the treaty.

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