Talan Tadeo🌊🌠

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The bastard child of a merprincess and her royal guard, Talan's father was executed before his birth, with his mother allegedly dying of grief shortly after it. With no parents and the blue blood of royalty in his veins, Talan was reluctantly adopted into the royal family, almost as a kind of homage to the late princess. His childhood was unhappy, with his dully coloured skin standing out amongst the brightly shimmering scales of the royalty. However, he also stood out amongst the warriors his father was a part of, with his royal heritage marked by his iridescent blue eye and ear fins. Still, he fitted better amongst the warrior cadres in gruelling combat training, than in the high arched tunnels of glimmering mosaics and nobles. Thankfully, a friend of his late father all but took Talan under his fin, being a strict general but a kindly father figure, leading to Talan feeling more at home in the barracks amongst fellow recruits than in the palace he trained to guard.

During his breaks in training, Talan would explore shallower waters, swimming far from Ma'renídus. Wandering through kelp forests and coral reefs, Talan stumbled across other Ma'ren settlements, eventually finding friends in the tropical settlement, Fa'rusa.

With Fa'rusa being just off the coast of Callistern, as a young adult, Talan often visited the seaside town. Whilst below the waters his colouration was considered dull and boring, Talan discovered that the humans inhabiting the coastline found a mershark to be exotic, exciting, and even alluring. Since then he happily took to frequenting the beds and bed chambers of Callistern's inhabitants.
With his guard duties thoroughly abandoned, after enjoying the company and generosity of his various lovers, Talan eventually enlisted to join the navy as a privateer. (mb because two of his lovers got too jealous/landed himself in some trouble?). Finding a mage in Callistern, he paid for a semi-permanent enchantment in the form of a necklace, changing his body to that of a human. This dampened his Ma'ren abilities so that although he could hold his breath for a long time underwater, he could no longer breathe it, amongst other things. Under this disguise he joined what would become his closest thing to a family, naturally slotting into the cadre lifestyle similar to that of which he'd grown up in. He quickly completed his training and joined a crew, easily climbing the ranks to quartermaster.

His life as a privateer was not fated to last, however. When out on a mission one day, Talan learned that his ship - and that of those in their fleet - were tasked with eliminating a Ma'ren settlement as part of work to clear a new tradesroute. Not wanting to attack his kin, Talan leapt onto the bow of the ship, yelling for everyone's attention before gripping the necklace upholding his enchantment, and yanking it apart. The spell broke to reveal Talan's true Ma'ren nature, before he then urged his fellow crewsmen and family to turn against the other ships in their fleet, and protect the Ma'ren they'd been tasked with killing. The majority of the crew followed him, rising up against the Captain and subduing those that refuse to join. Following a mixture of fighting and persuading other ships onto their side, Talan succeeded in protecting the Ma'ren at the cost of committing treason and being labelled as a pirate.
After (safely) dumping those that refused to join him, Talan assumed the role of Captain, commandeering his new ship and crew, exploring the seas and sailing wherever the wind took them.