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| Species | Meerus |
| Order | Viridianite |
| Classification | Elemental |
| Family | Aquatic |
| Sphere | Water |
| Origin | Primordial currents aether acquiring sentience |
| Lifespan | Minor: 500 years Moderate: 10,000 years Greater: Inmortal |
| Terrain | Any body of water |
| Food | Aether |
| Forms | The form of a meerus is always fluid and changing, but they often reflect the body of water they derive from: rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, oceans, rains, and so on. Their size is usually a reflection of their body of water, but greater meeruses usually take on a human-like size and form (made of moving water) when they appear. Faces in water, hands coming out of the water, or other humanoid features in water are forms meerus take. Greater meeruses often take on shells, coral, scales, rocks from the stream bed, sticks, and other fragments from the water to give themselves more characteristics, but these change often. Others take on the form of maestroms, waterfalls, or geysers. |
| Procreation | Meeruses create new meeruses when their bodies of water intersect and form new bodies of water. |
| Esoterica | Meeruses are beings of currents aether. Weaker meeruses only use currents aether in minor ways, but more powerful meeruses, those based on major lakes, rivers, oceans, and so on, have other powers based on what is within their loci. |
| Special Powers | Meeruses are made of currents. They can control the movement of water around them, as long as they are in water (including water vapor). The more water around them, the more influence they have. They can speak to anything that lives in water or has gills. They can hear anything within the body of water they are connected to, even if they are not a locus. More powerful meeruses can control almost everything within their locus, including having some influence over riverbanks, shores, etc. The voice of a meerus can lull a mortal to sleep. |
| Collective Powers | A group of six or more meeruses of similar form can unite into a greater meerus. Their powers amplify, and if they keep merging, they can become a greater meerus, emboding a major body of water. If six or more meeruses move water in the same direction, they can create tidal waves that grow to become tsunami or similar waves. Meeruses can communicate with each other through the global water cycle. |
| Elementalism | Meeruses are connected to all beings that contain water, and thus, almost all living beings on Shem can bond with them. It is much easier, however, for beings of currents aether or users of currents aether to bond with them. Forced bonding is possible if a a user of currents aether consumes part of the body of water the meerus lives in or is connected to, or by using yahas, parasitic energy, ethereal energy, imperium, or mana. Bonding with a meerus allows the mortal to have control or influence over water around them or to draw power directly from the meerus. Those who are attuned to currents aether can also sense the flow of metaphysical currents. Communing with a meerus can be done by druids or metapoliticians by submerging oneself in the body of water a meerus lives in or embodies, meditating, and allowing the waters to flow into your body. Communion gives druids the power to draw directly on the powers of the meerus, speak to anything within the water, sense anything within the water, or control of the water. Metapoliticians can sense the metaphysical currents and learn many things. |
| Weaknesses | Brown aether can poison a meerus. The less water that is around them, the weaker they become. Because all water is connected on Shem, meeruses can survive outside their loci. Desert whispers aether, solar aether, and brumal aether can all harm them. |
| Behavior | Meeruses live in a massive hive connected to the Mother Ocean, whose heart beat unites them. They can sense the currents of the world, and thus, they are very knowledgable. They keep information to use to trade, buying protections from polluters. They are known to be very shrewd because of their ability to communicate over vast distances, allowing them to quickly spread useful information. A meerus will protect its loci with ferocity, drowning anyone who threatens them. |
| Mortal Interactions | Mortals rarely know of meeruses, but those who do either know to pay them tribute (sailors and fisherfolk), avoid them (those who cannot swim or industrialists), or trade with them for information (spies, mystics). Meeruses are among the better known viridianites, but they are still mostly unknown. Some snake oil sellers will bottle clean water and sell it as "meerus water" which "lets folk see the future." They rarely even know what a meerus really is, but the terminology has become synonymous with a fake magic potion. |
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| Sample statistics | PRO 10 Currentspeak 13 |
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