Kemu

Backstory

Kemu was born in the fishing village of Saltmere, where his mother was a Covenant Keeper and his father a simple nets-mender. When the pact shattered three weeks ago, his mother vanished during an emergency ritual—whether dead, corrupted, or taken by the mermaids, no one knows. Now Kemu carries her journals, cryptic notes about 'the barrier weakening' and 'something older stirring below.' He trusts neither the Crown's war rhetoric nor the Merchant Lords' appeasement schemes. He only knows the truth lies in the deep, and he will find it—or die trying to understand why his mother abandoned him to chase it.