Name: Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Race/Heritage: Fins [anglerfish]
Appearance:
Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes is a anglerfishman with a mouthful of needle sharp teeth and a body covered with fins, webbing, scales and mucus. his eyes are large and pale accustomed to the deep-water caves of his peoples shrines. His angler light glowing faintly or sharply with a pale light. His body and limbs are long and thin. When on land He usually crawls or walks bent over but if he were to stand up straight he would tower over most men. He wears a fishnet loincloth where he keeps fishing hooks and other useful items.
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Personality:
Being a tribe shaman makes Murky Waters, it which clouds their eyes naturally superstitious and he believes that behind every wrongdoing there's a bigger fish to fry.
Like his fellow tribesmen Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes believes that if it can be skewered on a gig or caught in a net you can eat it, and if time can be spared leaving it in water for a few weeks makes it bloated and delicious otherwise raw food will do. Quite fascinated by the strange customs of the land dwelling creatures Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes is eager to learn new things about this foreign world. Although he appreciate fine craftsmanship as well as the next man he sees true beauty in the things which can be found in nature, specifically the sea, such as a pebble slowly formed by grinding sands and waves or pretty seashells.
They say dolphins will help sailors lost at sea to find their way back to land but Murky Waters, it which clouds their eyes will take them all the way to the dining table.
Everything is considered fish until proven otherwise, the most for proof being if it's edible.
Skills:
Net maker, fishmonger, swimming, diving, breathe under water, breathe on land, catching, gigging, fishing, nautical navigation, healing Fins (He is not familiar with healing practices of other races), regurgitation, ichthyomancy, luring (with his light)
Occupation: Tribe Shaman
Faction:
Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes first and foremost is his tribes Shaman but his Tribe often do business with the Golden wheel and the Curved blades.
Biography:Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes is the Shaman of a small tribe of fins out in the great waters of the south. Murky waters, It which clouds their eyes trained under the last Shaman: Pale Pearl, treasure in ugly shell and he was trained by the shaman before him. The Shaman line of his tribe are Chanters. His people live on floating hovels and in underwater caves in the stormy sea, rarely visiting land and feeling great comfort in the bad weathers and dark depths keeping interaction with strangers to a minimum. He was chosen as a small fry by Pale Pearl, treasure in ugly shell to undergo Shaman training because of his prowess at chanting. Growing up he trained hard and helped out with the duties life in the tribe demanded of him. When he got older he visited the dry shores to the north and learned more about these strange lands from his kinsmen by the coast. Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes have never felt hunted for his powers because his tribe as a whole stays hidden and feels hostile actions against him to be directed at his tribe, although he has learned from his kinsmen that people that is considered as chanters are being hunted on land. His tribe/village is called Flotsam, that which stays afloat.
Chanting abilities: If any:Murky Waters, it which clouds their eyes chanting powers is a distilled knowledge passed on from generations of chanters with unknown origin. The chants relate to the culture of his people allowing him to channel powers to control the weathers, the seas and the creatures within it. In times of famine he can chant to bring food to his peoples nets , In times of fear he can chant to bring the mists thick around their homes, in times of plenty he can bring water from the skies and darkness from the depths to take it all away. Murky Waters, It which clouds their eyes chants by calling attention to himself from the force he wish to channel by shouting poems, waving his arms about and throwing fish guts around him, the waving and fish guts isn't really necessary but as a Shaman the show is half the magic.
Chants:
It which feeds us: Even the most skilled fisher will often have to wait a long time before catching something so to help your belly fed you sometimes have to give it a helping hand. Although mainly used to get a fish caught on a hook or in a net this chant is applicable whenever "All good things come to those who waits" isn't soon enough. The longer you wait for what you want the more plausible it is for the chant to work.
It which blows: calls on the weather to change the direction and intensity of the wind. When done under water it changes currents.
It which drizzles: calls on the skies to open bringing forth rain in varying quantities.
Fish from below: Fish surges up from the depths bursting the water surface with enough speed to launch them a fair distance with mixing results. This chant must be done near water.
It which hides us: with either thick fog or heavy rain obscuring vision so that the chanter can't be seen, nor anyone else in the afflicted area. If done underwater it will either make the water murky or fill it with bubbles making it opaque. Because the lack of vision makes it hard to move in the wet shroud it's best used to avoid trouble rather than solving it.
Tempest: Call on horrible storms bringing water and fish alike, form above, from bellow, from everywhere. At sea it will bring forth great waves. The ritual required to perform this chant involves a pool or bowl of water mixes with fish blood and the consumption of five fish heads, the bodies placed in a circle around the water. No one have ever tried using more then five fish but it has been said that it'll be enough. Would anything or anyone but the chanter disturbe the water no one knows what could happen.
True Chant: "Summon bigger fish"
Imagine that picture of the little fish being eaten by a bigger fish who is then eaten by a even bigger fish and so on and so on. Now imagine you're the small fish, the bigger fish don't really matter because you've already been eaten, but if the bigger fish ate the big fish just a moment sooner you'be be off scott-free. That's the Idea behind this chant, the chanter will be able to deal with the immediate threat by calling on a even bigger and fishier threat to deal with the first one and to prevent the new threat from causing trouble: bigger fish! The amount of times this will repeat depends on how well the chanter has prepared and for how long he is able to continue chanting. The effects can result in anything from a whale falling from the heavens to a horrific monster lurking in the depths to burst forth. To efficiently predict how many times a bigger fish will come the chanter will have to put smaller fishes into bigger fishes for as many times as he wishes bigger fish to be summoned, this matryoshka fish will then be eaten in the preparation of the chant. The dangerous thing with big fish is that they can often eat several smaller fish and might do just that if not stopped soon enough. Of course fish just don't hang around waiting to be called upon so In reality the summon actually brings forth fish from the great seas of Murky Waters, it which clouds their eyes mind to materialize in our realm, although Murky waters, it which clouds their eyes don't know that and believes strongly that behind every corner, in every cloud and under every rock there hides a bigger fish just waiting to summoned even if there wasn't one there the first time you looked.
Example of chant:
Wishy-washy, swimy slimy
slithering little fish!
scaly-waly, sandy handy
I shall eat your fins!
full and round, offal and guts
your innards make me strong
now with a great roar, I need you once more
In my nets, in my hands on my hooks in my mouth
my fish I'll eat you up!
This is an example of the chant fish from below, In order to get as many fish as possible the chanter would have to starve himself so that he can really focus on all those delicious fish.
Patron God: God of the sea
This is my first RP on Iwaku and my first CS so if I got something wrong feel free to help me out.
