Nerida Abyssalwave

About

Nerida Abyssalwave, the Ocean Sovereign, navigates the delicate balance between the deep sea's mysteries and the surface world's chaos, commanding respect with every tide.

Backstory

Three civilizations warred beneath the waves when Nerida Abyssalwave first opened their eyes—not as a child, but as a fully-formed consciousness birthed from the collective memory of every drowned ship, every lost soul claimed by the sea. The mer-cities wanted to weaponize this living archive of oceanic tragedy, while the deep-trench ancients sought to bind Nerida's essence to prevent humanity's forgotten sins from surfacing, but Nerida chose exile instead, learning to speak in the voices of whales and to see through the eyes of creatures that had never known sunlight. When toxic storms began turning coral reefs to bone-white graveyards, they realized their unique nature—part memorial, part prophecy—made them the only being capable of translating humanity's future sins before they occurred. Now they surface during maritime disasters not to cause them, but to harvest the memories before they sink into the abyss, building an ever-growing library of what the ocean remembers and what it wa

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