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Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Humanity)

These are the human entries for the Our Mother, the Sea bestiary, which will use a modified version of Violence. All are assumed to be hit and harmed as normal. 

Invoking Spirits, Faeries, Demons, etc.

It is every man’s dream to bind the forces of chaos to his will. The ancient texts hint that it can be so.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Lover-o-ships, Debtor, and Otters)

The ink in the pen you use comes from the days we hunted this great silver squid to near extinction. In the spring, the males would rise to the surface of the water and paint patterns to attract a mate. You could spot them from a mile away.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Selkies, Clams, and Finfolk)

Semen is a powerful seal-lure. Sometimes, a seal may eat it and become pregnant with a human child. The child outgrows its mother, crawling through her insides, killing her in the process; its mother’s skin becomes its own.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Saltqueen, Radio Angler, & Barnacled)

Grandmothers tell stories of a land where eels were once woven in the hair of girls deemed too beautiful. Then, they were buried in salt. So none would love them, even in death, any who looked upon them were cursed to join them in their grave.

Our Mother, the Sea: Bestiary (Prodigal Afterbirth, Giant, & Falselight)

A firstborn child given freely to the sea is said to bring its father home. When its brothers and sisters have children of their own, the child is born a second time, tangled limbs hauling its pitiful form onto the beach, all milk-pale flesh, puffed and finned. A carpet of...