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Mermay 22 9 - Bathhouse
🕑 Added 2022-05-30 18:43:14 +0000 UTCThe great city of Ker-Ys was the jewel of the North, a powerful city where the Bediz and the Fae lived together, achieving great things. But treachery and hate brought destruction to the Beacon City, and a great storm sank it beneath the waves. Only Ahes Dahut, the Princess of Kernev, remained, trapped by a powerful curse in the form of a mermaid in the silent city beneath the waves. Driven by her loneliness, Ahes sought to recreate the spell that cursed her, transforming other lonely souls into mermaids, rebuilding her city and her family.
Isra fancied himself a force within the upper classes of Iram of the Pillars, a wealthy spice merchant on the rise, with connections from Pharos to Naoned, flush with gold and silver, ready to make his name. To that effect, he purchased a remote Oasis, deep in the Shifting Sands, overseeing the construction of a grand villa of pools, fountains and gardens, filling it with exotic foods, animals and slaves from all across the worlds. When he saw Maireid, a Marie-Morgane captured from the Northern Barbarians, he needed her, showering the slaver with gold and taking the mermaid deep into the desert. But Maireid was clever and a powerful mage, taking her time to build her influence within the Oasis. Isra fell in love with her, spending more and more time at the water's edge, listening to her adventures and stories. But when the time came, Maireid used her magic to turn the tables on her "master" into a Marie-Morgane, convincing others that the young man had gone on a long journey, leaving Maireid in charge, with Isra taking on the role of a new addition to her own harem. Gradually, the spoiled princeling, initially shocked at the change in circumstances and her new form, became more and more accepting and happy with the changes. Rather than forcing her to be a slave herself, Maireid treated her as an equal, and the two took over the villa, adding more Marie-Morgane from the slaves, staff and visitors, continuing their guise as Isra's harem, establishing a refuge for the Marie-Morgane and refugees deep in the deserts of Ubar.
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Isra and Maireid came about during a project explaining some of the deeper lore of the Marie-Morgane in the world of Kroashent, arising from a small anecdote of the "dangers" of attempting to place the Marie-Morgane into the slave trade, an unfortunate evil that exists in Alvez. Maireid and Isra are the personifications inspired by that throwaway anecdote and live quite far from Ys, but play a large role in how the the Marie-Morgane interact with the surface world, operating as an intelligence gathering point and smuggling operation for others caught in the trade in Ubar, one of the largest slave markets in the worlds.
Alternate Version on Patreon
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2019 - Tails of Ys (Meet the Marie-Morgane!): https://www.deviantart.com/kathalia/gallery/69216503/tails-of-ys
2020 - Return to Ys: https://www.deviantart.com/kathalia/gallery/73258197/return-to-ys-mermay-2020
2022 (Previous): https://www.deviantart.com/kathalia/art/Mermay-22-8-Princess-917429037
More Isra and Maireid:
https://www.deviantart.com/kathalia/art/Mermay-8-841390356
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