#neridah

Day 1 - Angelic

“You need not fear …” Lief began gently. But at that moment the starting bell rang, and like a snake, Neridah’s foot lashed out and caught him on the point of the chin, knocking him flat on his back. The crowd laughed and booed.

Red satin sheets Mask her body and mind. Pull them back, what will we find?

RODDACEMBER 2025 | DAY 19: ORIGIN

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A moodboard and short poem based on my adaptation of Neridah in my AU, The Phantom Chariots, where she is one of the main characters. If you're interested, the prologue (entirely from Neridah's POV) is available to read on AO3 (username: fusionfanatic) here!

Day 8 - Cunning

Neridah. Before this, I really didn't give much thought about her; she was merely a deciteful woman who had brief roles in the story. But now that I had to think about her personality to see how I like to imagine her, it struck me hard to see how much I can understand her.

So I decided to google Neridah’s name to find out it’s meaning, and apparently, it comes from the Greek word ‘nereids’ which were sea nymphs.

So that got me thinking, and it literally reminded me of Neridah’s death in the Valley of the Lost:

Neridah lay face up in the stream, the slow water drifting over her unseeing eyes, her hair billowing over the rock on which she had hit her head. In the open palm of her cold, cold hand lay a great diamond.

She literally died in the water, I— 👀

Lief: His what?

Neridah: His silly rabbit.

Lief: His silly rabbit?

Neridah: Yes.

Lief: Is that what he calls you?