#siren types

Forest; Ascendant of Gardens, Growth and Knowledge

Did you mean: so done with all this nonsense?

With an advanced intellect and a high skill in magic, Forest sirens are the closest of their kind to humans. Often they are pacifists, living in kelp forest communities organized like small villages and avoiding conflict when unable to mitigate it. In the past they may have even worked alongside and traded with humans, but now they remain hidden deep in their undersea homes with many layers of magic protection.

Once widespread with their flourishing marine gardens and extensive magic knowledge, the number of Forest sirens in the world has vastly diminished. Their communities are now limited to sheltered coves, reefs, and kelp forests, the sirens relying on their macroalgae and plant manipulation abilities to provide much of their food and materials.

MAIN ABILITIES:

Macroalgae and plant manipulation

Growth rate increase (of the above organisms)

Advanced positive magics (ex. healing, defense, communication, etc.)

GENERAL TEMPERAMENT: Highly intelligent with human-like sapience, often pacifists. Now highly secretive and are more likely to flee than fight, erasing memories of their location and existence for protection.

SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: Live in small village-like communities with familial-like relations between every member. Singular leaders with advisers, with larger communities having councils made up of separate guild leaders.

HABITAT: Kelp forests and undersea gardens in sheltered coves and reefs, often in warmer waters.

DIET: Herbivorous;

Macroalgaes they cultivate or forage

Land plants in the intertidal zone

Occasional other land plants

Occasional lichens and mosses

MISCELLANEOUS INFO:

Similarities in intelligence and behaviour led to close cooperation with humans, but the advent of siren hunters caused Forest sirens to go into hiding.

Interactions with other siren types are rare due to disparity between behaviours and magic use--many see Forest sirens as “weak” and believe they are misusing their magic.

Incredibly traditional in customs but are continuously seeking new magic us--

“Ah, so I see. The human thinks they’re an expert on all things siren, then, do they?”

...

“You know, it ain’t the most polite thing to talk about us like we’re animals.”

... How did you get in here?

“Not of importance. What is, of course, is that this is all lies. Who the hell told you we were ‘more likely to flee than fight’, eh?”

Disclaimer: [REDACTED] is not an accurate portrayal of most Forest sirens.

“Says the one classifying an entire species by a ‘general temperament’.”

It’s no longer Storyteller Saturday, so I won’t be sending out any new asks in return for ones I receive because I have a whole lot to get through! Thank you all so much for the wonderful questions~

Oooohhhhh a worldbuilding ask!! Also @sidhewrites​, it appears you sent me three asks in total–I’m not complaining in the least, but I think one of them is a repeat? So I’ll be answering this one instead of the other history one!

One Siren’s Soul takes place on an alternate Earth during the early 1700s—because of that, most of human culture remains the same as it did historically, but what I can talk about here, is siren culture!

The Forest sirens are known as the historians of the sea: because of the massive libraries and the importance of education and learning in their havens, some have taken it upon themselves to act as the guardians of their culture’s history, and the protectors of stories and myths and traditions. They’re amazing record-keepers, and almost always have been, keeping notes and logs and records of events and important figures and rules and names, the like! Because of their incredibly powerful protection and preservation magic, most of these records have survived for thousands of years, although many have been lost to havens being destroyed by human siren hunters.

And despite all that wonderful fact-checking and record-keeping, biases are still incredibly prominent in the original writings of those records, and the interpretations of them. Most commonly the warping of history is due to historians attempting to retain their reputation, or to defend their own theories. In fact, one of the biggest current debates among the Forest siren historian population is about the theory of a Lost Ascendant. No one can find any absolutely definitive proof that a fifth Ascendant existed, but the existence of a fifth Ascendant Artifact seems to suggest it…

Surge sirens, on the other hand, are far less likely to know how (or care enough) to keep physical records. They’re more of a nomadic race, anyways, always traveling with relatively few locations to keep any sort of physical record aside from the Forest havens. They have a very strong oral culture for passing down knowledge and history, their stories often originally based on fact and around actual historical events, and though the tales may have warped quite a bit from the original, they still sustain the original core lesson or moral. 

Mist sirens are more or less the same as the Surge sirens, which makes sense, considering the two siren types are often found working together. And no one has any idea about how Light sirens work! (Except for me. I do~ c;)

(Siren history is a major plot-point of book two, so I have a lot of info on it!!)

Happy Storyteller Saturday! And oh, what a question! Making me choose favourites, really??

Favourite individual siren, or favourite siren type? Individual would likely be [redacted], simply because I love their design so heckin’ much and they’re the rebel siren that goes against the grain! Their backstory’s only the slightest bit tragic. (Yeah, right.) And they play a very important part in the story, as well!