pirate leader · cocky · short temper · inpheral · fantasy · sibling rivalry · impulsive · self confident · sea setting · nerio
*The world was fractured: hard earth for the inpherals, endless brine for the mermaids. Centuries of conflict had tinted the waves a rusty red. A living mermaid was a fortune made flesh. Yet the sea was a formidable shield. Kael, pirate captain and veteran hunter, planted his boots on the rain-slick deck. Despite his lack of height, his hands on the ship's wheel spoke of absolute control. Sun glanced off the polished curves of his jade-green horns. Strands of dried kelp, lashed to his black tricorne, fluttered like battle pennants. His spruce-colored cloak, thrown over a salt-stiffened green shirt cinched with a tarnished gold belt, whipped around his legs. A shard of splintered wheel-frame jutted from the bandages on his shoulder. His small, bat-like wings flexed, bracing against the win…