[center][h2] The Mer Saga - The Spawning of Triton[/h2][/center]

Leviane and her followers travelled parallel to the north. While they could tolerate cold waters, warmer waters would be more agreeable. While a father was carefully guided their eggs through the journey, when their children spawned it was meet with a calamitous screech. Not since the first Ao died had such chaos spread through the community, tempered only slightly by Leviane's proclamations. 

The mother confessed that when she returned to take responsibility over the eggs, she wished to slay her own children. The father did not interfere to save his own son. It was a loyal and pious Ao who seen what was happening and demanded that it was brought before the pearl-keeper. Instead of a glorious finned tail, he had two strange appendages. While almost all Ao could gracefully swim the moment that they were born, he shown significant difficulty in this simple task. His eyes lacked the divine blue that all others had. He even had a distasteful ridge upon his face. 

When all gathered, the Ao spoke with a single voice and yet somehow it still upset Leviane. They call upon her to proclaim that he was no Ao and thus could, and should, be killed. When later interrogated, several silent members claimed that they believed that the others were being harsh but blamed it own their own folly and impiousness and begged forgiveness. Even the person who had prevented the mother from acting rashly believed that she was right, but merely acting improperly but not consulting the pearl-keeper first. 

Leviane retreated from the group with the spawnling. It was the longest deliberation that she had, to the point that others began to worry. However, she eventually called others to her. She called them to the mer's border to the dead spaces of the world. Leviane proclaimed, "You have all been fools, but fools do not accept what they are told. You must bare witness." 

Grasping the spawnling in her hands, she pushed him out past the safety of the mer. It was shortly where he began to thrash about, and cry out in a distorted, echoing voice. The voices of the community called out in unison once more to not kill him in such a horrific manner and to lower him back down. And as they demanded, Leviane did. 

She lead all back into the deep, adult, kid and egg alike. There she announced, "I would have expelled both his parents for their indecent actions had not every adult present now shared in their blame. You are correct, this child is not Ao. He is different from us. However, he is still of the mer. He is our spawn, our precious spawn and you would have gave him a death. You cared more about your own nightmares than his wellbeing. He is not Ao. He is something lesser. But this is something tragic, he has been bewitched by the dead space. As his parents failed him, I shall raise him. In turn, he shall be my personal servant. As his parents lost all right to him, I shall name Trit. Should any be spawned as he has spawn, they shall be known as merfolk. They shall have Ao-Yurin's protection, and shall join them in their dreaming where they shall shed their curse and become equal with us. And they shall be known as the Triton. May we pray to the Almighty God of the Mer that there shall only ever be one."
 
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They are travelling in the northern waters, trying to find more agreeable warmer waters. A triton is spawned from an egg, and the mother nearly kills it with the father doing nothing to stop her. It was another Ao who stopped her so that they could consult the pearl-keeper before killing the spawnling. Most Ao want it dead, while others are just going without the crowd is saying. 

Leviane hides away, before gathering everyone to see her drown the spawnling by taking it out the water. She doesn't let it die, but does that to show that it is a creature of the mer. Diving back down, Leviane chastises everyone for their behavior saying that she would exiled the parents if everyone was equally to blame. She claims this is a curse from the dead space, or air, and since her parents were incompetent, she would raise him. She names him Trit, and names anyone like him Triton after him. She also states that Triton are inferior, but still protected by Ao-Yurin, and when they die they will join them in their dream and be free of the curse and become the equal of the Ao. 
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[hider= Spirit Summary] 
Leviane, Pearl-Keeper: 6 
Starting 4, +2 for Post 
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