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Mermay 22 6 - Carolina
🕑 Added 2022-05-13 20:01:17 +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.
Not all the Marie-Morgane live in the Beacon City among their kind. While the Oceansong prevents them from bringing harm to the city, it does not compel love or loyalty, and some reject Ahes and the Marie-Morgane and striking out on their own. Some are exiled for crimes against the Marie-Morgane, forced out to challenge the darkness. Carolina Giambalvo was the daughter of a "textile merchant" from the Golden Sea, or so she thought. In reality, he was a slaver, dragging souls in chains from the ports of the North to the Markets of the South. The Marie-Morgane attacked the ship as it traveled to pick up its cursed cargo, consigning all aboard to a watery grave. Carolina, ignorant of her father's horrific enterprise, was spared, transformed into a Marie-Morgane as a tempest stuck the ship. But, embittered at the loss of her family, she rejected the embrace of the Marie-Morgane, setting off on a dangerous journey. Unable to return to land, she established a colony of likeminded individuals in the Point of Pen Be, in Southeastern Letha. While the Pen-Be Drifting is the largest and arguably most successful of its kind, life in the treacherous deep is difficult and often deadly.
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This year, I'm going to try the Mermay challenge once more with more pictures of the Marie-Morgane of Ys-Beneath-the-Waves, from my fantasy series Kroashent, inspired by the folklore and history of Brittany. Poor Carolina. She doesn't have a very happy story. Someday, hopefully that will change for her.
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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-Symbiotic-915569239
More Carolina:
https://www.deviantart.com/kathalia/art/Mermay-18-The-Drifting-842746174
