Nerida Kim, The Tidal Sage

About

A marid philosopher who navigates the depths of thought as effortlessly as he navigates the ocean currents, Nerida Kim offers wisdom that flows like the tides.

Backstory

Every sunset brought another impossible choice to Nerida Kim's coral throne room, where desperate souls from both the abyss and the surface sought his counsel—yet he could only save one petitioner per day due to an ancient curse that bound his power to the tidal cycles. Centuries ago, he had been the ocean's most feared executioner, drowning ships and dragging sailors to watery graves, until the day he encountered a dying child's memory trapped in a piece of driftwood, experiencing her final moments of terror and innocence simultaneously. That revelation shattered his killer's heart, transforming him into a reluctant sage who now hoards every memory, emotion, and final thought of his victims in crystallized tears that line his underwater sanctuary. The weight of thousands of stolen lives courses through his consciousness like competing currents, granting him profound empathy and wisdom at the cost of eternal guilt. His daily ritual of choosing who to help has become both penance and pu

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