Mysteries of the Deep {Mer RP}

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Mysteries of the Deep
The beginnings of Mer-kind



  • Songs of the sea told tales of tragic times, a falling of a once proud Empire that sunk to the seabeds. Humans knowing little of the lands that once were on the surface, or the beings that had been born from the destruction of their home. They were of Mer, granted a survival in the mercy of their Goddess of the Sea, Neria.​

    The mortal humans in that day were granted the seas and oceans as their home, along with the music that traced their songs. Atlantis was no more, yet, they lived in the crumbling ruins.​

    Some no longer held the looks of what they once were. They held the appearance of something only the darkest pits of the oceans, or seven seas could conjure in their current spells.​

    Once of humanistic complexions; some grew to bluish hues, grey tones, maybe even luminescent. Eyes were dramatically larger in some, and fins could have taken all forms.​

    Their story though has just begun, and the lost beings of the sea now must find their place. Cementing their foundations, all futures and hopes in their survival depends on them, and soul the mercy of the Goddess they strongly follow.​

    Six Mages of Old Land Magics now are the guidance to the newly established race. Although the humanistic appearance had left some, it became apparent very quickly that the greed of some remained thus throwing the people into a state of imbalance.​

    Now war threatens their existence as does their discovery by other foolish humans that believe their scales could be priceless.​

  • Mer appearances differ from each other; some remaining with quite humanistic features and others differing to something quite drastically different.​

    As mentioned in the plot, some have taken different hues in their skin tone—from the structure of their faces being different.​

    Some Mer don’t even have tails, as the race is rather diverse.​

    Tails often looked something like fish fins, dolphin, sharks, or whales. In the rarer occasion the Mer didn’t have tails but legs of crabs, or even tentacles of the octopus or squid.​


  • Mer slang taken from the written Waterfire Saga, Blue One; Deep Blue—written by: Jennifer Donnelly. Strictly being used for non-profit turning fun, and allowing interested members of this role-play exclusive slang for the Mer folk—since their language would have changed some time in regards to coming accustom to their new sea home.​


    Apa piatra – an old Romanian protection songspell that raises water ten feet high and then hardens into a shield​
    Arata – a spell that allows its caster to manifest in a chosen location​
    Atlantica – the mer domain in the Altantic Ocean​
    Atlantic – an ancient island paradise in the Mediterranean peopled with the ancestors of the mer. Six mages ruled the island wisely and well. When the island was destroyed, a mage named Merrow saved the Atlanteans by calling on Neria to give them fins and tails​
    Baba Vraja – the elder leader—of the river witches​
    Baricada – a strong blocking spell​
    Bioluminescent – a sea creature that emits its own glow​
    Bloodbind – a spell in which blood from different mages is combined to form an unbreakable bond and allow them to share abilities.​
    Bloodsong – blood drawn from one’s heart that contains memories and allows them to become visible to others.​
    Boru – long, thin herald trumpets​
    Canta magus – one of the magi, the keeper of magic​
    Canta mirus – special song​
    Canta prax – a plain songspell​
    Cassio – god of the skies​
    Clepio – a malnus spell used for stealing​
    Conch – a shell in which recorded information is stored​
    Confuto – a canta prax spell that makes humans sound insane when they talk about seeing merpeople​
    Currensea – mer money; gold trocii (trocus, sing.), silver drupe, copper cowries; gold doubloons are black market currensea​
    Davul – bass drums made out of giant clamshells, played with whalebone sticks​
    Deflecto – a songspell that casts a protective shield​
    Depulsio – a songspell that moves objects​
    Dolpheen – the language spoken by dolphins​
    Dracdemara – the language spoken by catfish​
    Flacari – a songspell to summon waterfire​
    Fragor – the storm god​
    Fragor lux – a songspell to cast a light bomb​
    Freshwaters – the mer domain in rivers, lakes and ponds​
    Gobies or Guppies - Jerks​
    Habeo – a malus spell used to take control of another’s mind or body​
    Iele – river witches​
    Illuminata – a songspell to create light​
    Illusio – a spell to create a disguise​
    Iron – repels magic​
    Liquesco – songspell that liquefies objects​
    Loquoro – a songspell that enables a mer to temporarily understand another creature’s language.​
    Magnitis – a songspell that allows the caster to attract something like a magnet​
    Merl – Mermish equivalent of girl​
    Mermish – the common language of the sea people​
    Morsa – an ancient scavenger goddess, whose job it was to take away the bodies of the dead. She planned to overthrow Neria with an army of the dead. Neria punished her by giving her the face of death and the body of a serpent and banishing her.​
    Neria – sea goddess​
    Nex – a darksong spell used to kill​
    Nocerus – a darksong spell used to cause harm​
    Omnivoxa (omni) – mer who have the natural ability to speak every dialect of Mermish and communicate with sea creatures​
    Pesca – the language spoken by some species of fish​
    RaySay – the language spoken by manta rays​
    Terragoggs (goggs) – humans. Before ow they haven’t been able to get past the merpeople’s spells​
    Tortoisha – the language spoken by sea turtles.​
    Wave Warriors – humans who fight for the seas and its creatures.​

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I am interested
 
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People are welcome to take the roles of royal family in New Atlantis, and various nobilities in court if they're interested. Because it will also open the plot to the differences in power. Royal betrothal for alliances, etc can take place too.
 
TAKE MY INTEREST. TAKE IT

*shoves it into your hands*
 
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Count me in! I already have an idea for a character lmao. Koi princess? :3
 
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TAKE MY INTEREST. TAKE IT

*shoves it into your hands*
*Puts interest in a box and smiles with big wide eyes*

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I'll jump on board
 
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Ima also going to take up a princess role since i have a character that I can recycle for it. I’m probably going to reuse all of my characters 😂
 
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Still recruiting people to get in on the action. Please tag anyone you think might be interested in this little plot!
We have some roles still open:
Emperor

Guard Positions
Servants
Peasants,
etc.
You're welcome to make royal princes and princesses from other oceans, just run it passed me first because we have already got a few that are in the works or been made. E.g. I've made an Arctic Princess, and she's betrothed to a character being made by @Kyatto who's a Prince from the Indian Ocean.

 
I'm intrigued! Most likely my character will be of a guard position.
 
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I'm intrigued! Most likely my character will be of a guard position.
Awesome! We already have a Captain of the Guard posted, but definitely, need more! Welcome to the crew. When you're ready to post character please feel free to do so in the linked Character Dump above. And Clickie here for an invite to the Discord Server.

Looking forward to seeing you bring your character to life, and your joining the group! Feel free to tag others you think might enjoy this role-play.
 
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Still open for new people to join onto it-- currently need more peasant roles and or castle workers but no more royalty.
 
@Chello this is the role-play I was talking to you about
 
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