AU

In the sunlit shallows of the Coral Kingdom, Prince Aurelius rules with measured grace—a merman of royal blood whose days are filled with courtly duty, treaty negotiations, and the careful maintenance of peace among the merfolk. Far below, in the lightless trenches of the Abyss, Kaelor hunts. An abyssal shark merman, scarred and solitary, he is both predator and protector of the deep: the creatures of the dark trenches depend on the steady migration of fish that slip over the kingdom’s borders into the crushing black.