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An Acaesian Encyclopaedia

Darena’s Seafarers: Sirelians (Aqua Sirens)

Second Instalment for Darena’s Seafarers! This is about Sirelians! The other Seafarers include: Merfolk, Melusines, and Nymphs/Nereids. Of the four treasures Darena handed out, the Sirelians were given the Bident.

Before I get into the nitty gritty, I wanna go over why I named them Sirelians rather than just Sirens. Everyone knows Sirens right? Well, first off the original version of Sirens were bird like, and many of you may already know that. So because both Sirelians and Sirens have the hypnotic voice that can sing a lullaby of doom, the names have had an overlap and they’ve been conflated with one another, which is why I put in brackets Aqua Siren next to their original name. Another name would be Darena’s Sirens since Zetune has her own Sirens; they treat each other like cousins even though they are in no way related. So yeah they are not Sirens since they cannot fly, are not bird-like and do not fall under Zetune’s domain of Caeli. (For the uninformed Caeli is wind/air.)

Anyway! They’re mostly found in the area within and surrounding Sirelia, which is found in the ocean east of Theia/Turnunda (sorry again my map needs updating, once it is I’ll link it in these posts) which would put it south west of Aquaria. Like Merfolk you can find Sirelians in fresh waters.

First off, yes they have two tails, and the tails blend with the upper body. And yes I know the two tail thing is a Melusine thing, but I have my reasons (I came up with Sirelians first and they were initially supposed to be like Selkies because, again, they aren’t technically Sirens. Calling Sirelians Sirens is a land dweller’s misguided label. Like how red pandas aren’t pandas.)

I will note before I move on that there is practically no gender dimorphism that you can see on a Sirelian no matter what upper body they’re rocking.

Second! Unlike Merfolk their tails are more colloquially fish-like. (I use colloquially because classification and fish are not friends so to hell with it.) Their tails can also either be smooth or have scales and if it exists as a fish there’s most likely a Sirelian variant of it. Their hands are webbed and have it on their ears too. They have gills and their nostrils are just to smell not to breathe.

The sclera of a Sirelian is black, and when in hunting mode or when the prey drive is triggered the pupil dilates a LOT. (The iris being bigger on the right is a drawing error but I’ve sat here for nearly three hours doing it)

Through their hypnotic voice and applying their manipulation of Aqua to shapeshifting, Sirelians can change the way they look. Whether it is changing the sclera of their eyes to white, changing the appearance of their teeth to make it less… uh… terrifying to hiding the webs in their hands, and the extra limbs on their arms. Similar to octopuses and cuttlefish they can change the colour of their bodies, but unlike them they can do it consciously rather than just being an environmental reaction.

The one thing they can’t change the image of is how their upper bodies meet their tails, and how many tails they have. This is why those are the only two reliable identifiers to distinguish Sirelians from Merfolk.

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Really sorry guys but I think I ended up finishing the list jydsyfdy

You guys can ask me about how I chose the patrons

Oh yeah here's another disclaimer

Uh the are npcs so obviously the designers probably didn't intend for some of them to have very deep designs but if I were to draw them I would include personal details that would make them be more in line with the patrons I chose for them

this is what I got so far

Dog furry esper - tiangou

Depressed looking guy with the green v t-shirt- Huang Feihu (I have no reasoning I just think this would be extremely funny)

* (guy who helped Jiang ziya in the war*tm

Ended up dying and getting deified)

Girl with the reused Lian friend Sprite- nereid (greek nymph)

Blue hair, glasses and pronouns- Daedalus

Green haired with horns- shíshī (guardian lion )

Big orange tall girl- Helgi (Norse hero)

Comically large glasses girl with brown hair-Zhenniao (poison bird, I know she doesn't look like a bird but like I don't think the artists were thinking about her patron when she was made)

Xi shan - Chimei (wood spirit)

I'm sorry I am starting to find myself becoming really fond of lü Shang

But like I also kind of want to expand on like his first class because it would be really fun to assign patrons to them

Honestly guys give me some patron suggestions and I'll see what I can do about it!