(Discontinued) Metior_Ice’s Story Thread

Sulani used to be a beautiful paradise. The three islands of St. Taz, Ohan’Ali, and Mua Pel’Am we’re surrounded by pristine water and oceanic splendor.

Over the years, an ambitious women began looking for ways to profit from paradise. The tourism she brought to the islands brought temporary prosperity, and the Chieften was easy to manipulate in her old age. The Chieftan’s daughter tried to salvage the Island Traditions, but the people grew more and more disconnected from the three great Islands.

In their greed, they took the bounty of the Islands and the Sea until some fish became endangered and the skies grew too polluted. As the seas and shores became littered with trash, humans stopped returning to the islands as often.

Eventually, most humans abandoned the Islands entirely. The absence of humans gave the islands a moment of reprieve that cleared the skies for a time. But, the possibility of pollution returning was almost guaranteed.

The one who claimed to represent the islands ended up moving onto her next venture. But, for those who remained in Sulani, the person that ruined the islands wasn’t as important as the state of the islands.

Sulani was home to a race of mythical beings known as merfolk, collectively the mermen and mermaids that dwelled around the reefs and the deeper seas. Merfolk were immortal Ocean Spirits born from Sea Foam and Song. Future generations of merfolk were born from their parent’s songs.

When Sulani became too polluted for humans, most of the merfolk retreated to deeper water. A few merfolk families remained closer to the shore but stayed close to the sea. As the island’s grew more hostile to life, the merfolk that remained close to the shore started looking for ways to live among humans. Their children would start learning how humans lived by going to a human high school.

Naturally it was a shock to learn that human school was different from a school of fish.