Manny

Tritons guard the ocean depths, building small settlements beside deep trenches, portals to the elemental planes, and other dangerous spots far from the eyes of land-bound folk. Long-established guardians of the deep ocean floor, the noble tritons have gradually become increasingly active in the world above. Tritons reach maturity around age 15 and can live up to 200 years. Tritons are slightly shorter than humans, averaging about 5 feet tall
A child of the sea, can call on the magic of elemental air and water. Can cast foggy clouds/mist, gust of wind, wall of water and other water specific powers.  
Can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. Can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Has an extraordinary affinity with Aquatic beasts. Can communicate simple ideas with beasts that can breathe water. They can understand the meaning of your words, and this specific Triton learned to understand them in return.

Adapted to even the most extreme ocean depths, having resistance to cold damage.

speak, read, and write Common and Primordial.
Can live up to 200 years old.

Tritons tend to be hunter-gatherers. Why do I say that they are  civilized, not savages, when I would not say this of hunter-gatherer  societies on the surface? Quite simply, it is the plenty of the oceans.  Hunter-gatherers on the surface often spend most of the daylight simply  to provide one day’s food—and as such, language, ethics, and culture never develop. Yet the Tritons are hunter gatherers with an incredibly rich culture. This occurs because there is food everywhere, and they work together easily. They never over-hunt, and they work together easily as a group. Their typical hunting pattern is to find a school of fish and begin to swim in large circles around them, while one (the “netman” remains far below). Slowly, all three will close in bit by bit  (“tightening the net” they call it)—each circle gets a foot tighter, then a foot tighter, and so on, while the netman slowly comes from the bottom. The fish’s instincts cause the school to congregate closer and closer to the center, until eventually the netman can cast and bring in the entire school. A party of ten Tritons can easily find enough food in a single net-tightening to feed them for days.

Kelp and plants are also harvested. It seems that Tritons are just as susceptible to poisoning by undercooked food as we are; however, they have developed an ingenious method of using various algaes and seaweeds to “cook” their food without a fire. These are apparently highly acidic and, with proper wrapping and treatment, the seafood is rendered safe to eat. In the coastal villages near Minifera, this technique has been picked up by a few local restaurants, which they are calling ceviche. The surface chefs use lemons and limes to achieve the same result, and the citrusy flavors  (totally exotic and unknown to the Tritons) have become quite popular in Minifera. A significant amount of Triton trade along the coastline is now for sealed barrels of lemon and lime juice, to add more flavoring to their undersea diets.

Neither alcohol nor tobacco are used by Tritons underwater, and their bodies are not at all used to their consumption. This has led to more than one incident when Tritons travel to the Surface, and Tritons should be served alcohol only in moderation and with caution—for your good as well as theirs.

Triton hair tended to be dark blue or dark green, and were worn in the form of long, flowing ‘manes’. Triton men typically cut their hair around five inches past their shoulders, braiding it to keep it out of their eyes. While triton women occasionally followed this rule, they have also been known to let it flow free. Triton hair did not grow within two inches of the base of their pointed ears, giving the  appearance that it had been shaved there. When heading into combat, they often bound their hair into styles such as tight ponytails, so as to aintain visibility. They were also known to weave pieces of coral or metal into their hair for emergency use as bludgeons

Triton eyes typically seemed to vary between brilliant shades of green or blue. If seen in standard lighting (typically within 200 feet of the surface of the sea or near a typical torch), their eyes appeared similar to a human’s. In dim lighting, their pupils expanded greatly to allow for better sight in the dark, sometimes turning the entire eye black.  Their eyes also possessed a nictitating membrane, which protected them from sudden changes or flashes in light. All of this allowed for them to have normal vision even up to depths of 1,000 feet under the sea, though the triton were known to be able to safely swim down to 3,000 feet

Tritons were a very proud people, with many biases and preconceptions as a result of their way of life. Having spent centuries protecting the world from supposed great evils under the sea, they believed they were entitled to a certain amount of fealty and respect from other races something that was rarely acknowledged due to the lack of awareness many people held for the triton. Their isolation from the rest of the world also left them ignorant of the grand achievements of other civilizations or struggles the rest of the world has dealt with. When they were aware of such things, they considered them minor compared to the triton’s attempts to protect the world.

Despite this, the triton were a noble and kind-hearted people who valued the world and other races. Their arrogance aside, they would readily sacrifice themselves to protect others, willing to fight and die  for the other races of the world. They harbored a sense of guilt over allowing the evils of the Elemental Plane of Water threaten this world, and felt a need to make up for this crime. The fact that their name, ‘Triton’, translated to ‘guardian’ in their language is an example of their heroic nature.

Fighting

The tritons had a special weapon that was unique solely to their culture, known as the tapal. These were weapons traditionally carried through family lines, to be presented to a triton when they become an adult. 

Tapals were made at undersea hydrothermal vents, which were hot enough for tritons to smelt metals and minerals underwater. They were carved from an unknown crystalline material and made specifically for each triton warrior. The techniques were a closely guarded secret of their species. The tapal could be considered a combination of a dagger, spear, and longsword, able to be moved quickly to stab or slash without being slowed by water resistance and with little physical effort. The shorter, hook-like end of the arc was meant to stay near the body. Held with arms extended, the long curving edge and rounded front point were used by tritons to slash at enemies while swimming past them. The front arc, a wide and massive tip, could also be thrust like a dagger. Alternatively, the tapal could be flipped so that the long end  pointed forward, with the secondary handle towards the middle allowing it to be gripped with two hands. In this way, it could be used similarly  to a spear. The one-handed tapal was a long blade with an arcing shape, reminiscent of an angular fisherman's hook though wider and with a  razor-sharp outer edge and two handles inside the arc. When gripped, the  hand was protected and the unequal-length blades lay along the forearm and nearly to the shoulders. The greater tapal was larger and wielded in two hands, with a chevron-shaped blade and two handles.

Triton were also known to use more traditional weapons, such as unique aquatic variants of crossbows, designed with thicker wire and reinforced to withstand the pressure of the sea. They also used other aquatic weapons, such as stingray whips, daggers, javelins, nets, and their favored weapons, tridents. Triton weapons were often made from bone or coral, with enchantments to strengthen them. Some used metal, with magical enhancements to make them immune to rusting and pitting.

The triton of Serôs wore silverweave armor, which was crafted from a light and flexible fabric made out of silver coral fronds treated so that it had the durability of chainmail but moved like cloth. This was rarely worn outside of war, and usually was worn to protect the legs.

Triton spellcasters tended to use various shells in the place of magical staves. When it came to writing down spells, they shunned books in favor of carving spells into a cavern wall, typically in a language only the triton wizards knew and in a cave only they can access

Triton believed in the Law of Duels, in which two combating armies would instead put forward their champions to represent their faction and fight a personal challenge. This public conflict could have  been nonlethal and to first blood, if the challenged (not the challenger) chosen so

Tritons had good relations with giant sea horses, hippocampi, and sea lions, such that these creatures would hark to a summons by the sounding of a conch shell horn. They were uneasy around dolphins, who would invade their space without care and often would try to break down the triton’s aloof attitude. The triton also domesticated twilight turtles, a species of black-and-purple aquatic turtles which glowed with bioluminescence, while also acting as a pack animal.

Triton had a number of sapient allies. In Serôs, their allies included the shalarin, the merfolk, the morkoth of Qatoris, and the inhabitants of Myth Nantar.

They were sometimes found as courtiers or servants in the palace of the marid Kalbari al-Durrat al-Amwaj ibn Jari, the Citadel of Ten Thousand Pearls, and entire tribes of them would occasionally accompany her whenever she traveled on the Prime Material plane. Besides her, tritons often acted as bodyguards of traveling marids. 

Despite their xenophobic attitude, the triton rarely killed outsiders without reason. Instead, their preferred method of dealing with intruders depended on the quality of the individual, which was  tested in a triton court. Those deemed innocent awakened the next day on a nearby shore, while the guilty were stripped of their belongings and set adrift ten miles from the nearest shore. This practice was called leaving them “to the fate of the seas”

While Manny´s body looks amazing, androgynous like, Manny can change sex, depending on the size of the community. Gender swap linked to a hormone level in their environment.
making it part of both sides. Manny just likes beeing called by name. Doenst mind if beeing refered to he/she/it as long as there is respect.
Can wear anything as it suits nicely and won´t shy away from trying any type of clothing.