So, I did a quick look at my screenshots. The Eon House uses content from Strangerville, Spa Day, Get Famous, Dine Out, the Base Game, Eco Living, Get to Work, City Living, and either the Backyard or Patio stuff pack for all the Futuristic content. So, I'd be happy with updates to the Game and Expansion Packs in this list. Sulani is awesome, but I think Island Living is missing content found in other packs. The skill tree found with Vampires and Spellcasters would be nice with Merfolk.
For a book series that I'm working on, I spent years researching merfolk lore. Merfolk do control the weather, have a strong connection to music and their music does have an affect on the forces of nature (Many depictions feature merfolk singing and playing instruments. Sirens and Merfolk are entirely separate mythical creatures, but pop culture has blurred the lines between their abilities), merfolk do have an element of shapeshifting abilities (Taking human form, for example. This comes from their association to both the Moon and Water that are natural symbols of Change and Changing form.), and Merfolk being friends with sea creatures such as being able to talk to fish and summon sea monsters is not far from what merfolk might be able to do in lore. Merfolk can grant wishes for a price in some lore.
Other merfolk, such as the Blue Man, Merrow, Fossegrim, Noken, and other European variations can be associated with a type of faery folk. The in game depictions of merfolk are actually closer to pop culture depictions of merfolk, and that is Scandinavian in origin.
I'd love to see the game use more accurate gender representation for merfolk as the mythical creature is heavily gender oriented.
Mermaid = Female
Merman = Male
Mer = Gender Neutral
In fact the term Merman and Mermaid can be broken down into a Prefix (Mer that means of the Sea) and Root Word (The Base Word modified by a Prefix). A mermaid is, at its core structure, a Maiden of the Sea. None of the mermen, Men of the Sea, are maidens in my game. None of them. So, the word mermaid, is in of itself a misuse of terminology and demonstrates a lack of understanding or knowledge. For all the research they did on Polynesian Culture for Island Living, their simple misuse of one word to represent an occult, made up of multiple genders and sexes, in a pack that introduced the ability to modify gender to the game, shows how little they actually researched about merfolk. This mythical creature is present in the lore of every culture that has made contact with the ocean and other significant bodies of water. For the Planet Earth, that means a variation of mermaids AND mermen exist in lore globally.
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