Outsea

Parent page Merfolk

By far the strangest community connected to merfolk is that of Outsea, a mid-sized town in the middle of the River Kingdoms, hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. Long ago, an aquatic mercenary company forged far inlands, only to find that their magic failed them at a critical moment. To everyone’s surprise, they survived and now reside in a magically maintained lake of salt water in the middle of Avistan.

Outsea is home to not just merfolk but also sedacthies, azarketi, nagas, and several other aquatic species. They’re ruled by a military junta, the Council of Generals, and by Danglosa, an anglerfish claiming to be a demigod. The inhabitants are quite martial but also far more comfortable dealing with the surface world than basically any merfolk anywhere else; it’s fair to say that Outsea merfolk are considered unusual by other merfolk.