| Mermaids have the upper torso of a woman and the lower body of a fish.
By their inherantly magical nature they can morph into nearly human form
on dry land. While they can breath air and enjoy sunbathing, they are
perfectly comfortable spending most of their time underwater. Mermaids
are protectors of the sea and the creatures therein, but their attitudes
toward land dwellers ranges from hesitant acceptance to active malice.
They have been known to carry shipwrecked sailors to shore and nurse them
to health, and to lure them from their ships to their death in icy waters
with their seductive song.
Mermaids are naturally fast, smart, and alluring, but with merely
average physical power. They can channel magical forces like second
nature, particularly water elemental spells. They can summon storms at
sea, produce streams on land. Mermaids are imbued with natural healing
abilities. They swim and fish from the day they are spawned, and are
supremely talented in both. Poison, acid, and water attacks are diffused
against Mermaids, flame attacks are extinguished by their moist auras, and
their scales deflect slashing. Like other aquatic creatures they are
frightened of lightning.
See showrace mermaid for more details.
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