#unnamed fella instead of a real oc

[bureaumantic]

Here's something I spent too much time on for my worldbuilding project when I should have been writing! Introducting the Cleptavox, an old sailor's myth! ...or reality? Who can say?

I'll retype the text on the image if you don't want to read my terrible handwriting.

A minor race from the Days of Sail, the Cleptavox are humanoid sea monsters with the unique ability to steal the voices of sailors. They do not have voices of their own. When they steal the voice of another being, they are able to use their new voice for a year's time before it expires. Their victim loses their voice and becomes a Cleptavox. Cleptavox usually develop isolationist attitudes---except towards their victims, whom they may apprentice. It was believed that the Cleptavox were hunted to extinction in the 14th century, but mysterious cases of disappearing voices---and the occasional sailor---at sea continue to this day.

The eyes of Cleptavox make them stand out in a crowd. They glow a dull blue.

I started on this because one of my characters mentioned it offhand and I realized that I've never actually gone very far into sailor myth and legend in my world. The rest of the day flashed before my eyes and here I am, having wasted nearly all of it!! lets go