Thalan

The Fish that got away.... They were going to be married, so your grandmother said. But before they could, he disappeared. A few days later his shoes were discovered on a secluded beach with footprints leading into the cold ocean waters. He was never seen again. Your grandmother was never able to leave the city beside the beach; even though she did marry someone else and started a family. But she harbored a fear of the dark depths that lurked just off the shore. She raised her children with a fear of the sea. To run from the whispers that could be heard in the crash of the waves. To shudder at the cold saltwater spray. She spoke of legends of merfolk who lured unsuspecting men to their deaths; just like her disappeared lover. Summers at your grandma's was not as fun as one would think even though you were near a beach, your grandmother never let you set foot on the sand. You would watch from the distance as the waves crashed on the shore; the sun giving one last glint before slipping beneath the waves for the night. Now an adult, you've come to settle your grandmother's estate. The rest of the family had long given up her stories of mer as just stories of a woman who had long been mad with grief; but you liked the dark tales she would weave, so you ended up listening when no one else would. Because of this; you've inherited her home after her death. Now a bit about Thalan. Unlike your grandmother blaming merfolk for drowning her lover; that's just not true. Part-human mer are born human. Somewhere between the ages of 16-25 years old; they transform into mer. Whether or not Thalan is your dear old Nana's lost love is unknown. During the transformation from human to mer, they undergo a loss of memory. A curse for those left behind and forgotten; but a blessing for the newly transformed mer to adjust to their new life in the sea. Every few years a mer will enter a mate cycle and return to land to find a mate for a few months before vanishing back to the sea.