Merman Pod

Merman Pod
Information
Status	Disbanded
Base of operations	Mako Island, Coral Sea, South Pacific Ocean (formerly)
Purpose	A pod of mermen To take over Mako Island from the Mako Pod

“	Eons ago, before men lived in cities, a pod of mermen rose up of Mako, carrying the Trident before them... Their strength and their power was horrendous and destructive. Finally, they were overcome by an army of mermaids drawn from each of the five oceans. They seized the Trident and hid it, and commanded that it never be unlocked again.	”
	— Rita Santos on the origins of the Merman Pod[src]

The Merman Pod was an ancient pod of mermen that originated from Mako Island in the war between mermen and mermaids.

History

Article about Mermen myths

Mako Island didn't originally belong to mermen though, it passed to them during the war with mermaids.

Eons ago, before men lived in the cities, an army of mermen rose up from Mako Island, his leader carried a magic Trident that had terrified powers. To faced these threat, the mermaids reunited an army from the five oceans.

During this time, the merman's leader (Zac's ancestor) built a chamber on the island with the intention of siphoning the island's Moon Pool's Moon Water, thus the life of every mermaid of the Mako Pod, but he refused to activate it, when he fell in love with a mermaid . They found ways to invoke peace and stop the war once and for all; the merman locked the trident away in a magical cave, and ordered that the artifact must never be used again.

The merman and his mermaid lover then became a royal line of merpeople who ruled the seas and ensured peace between mermen and mermaids after ending the previous war between them. Since only a member of that merman's bloodline could activate the chamber, no other merman had been able to use it since then, and it became a lost ruin.

After this, mermen pods were disbanded, and from then on, all mermen were to be given up by their mothers to be raised on land in human foster families with the use of a forbidden Legs Spell. The island returned then to the ownership of the Mako Pod after the war had been won. At some point, Nerissa's ancestors moved to the Northern Hemisphere and became members of the Northern Pod. However, there were some cases where merman hatchlings remained with family and some where they are raised by foster parents. Unlike the "human" world, the mermaid world is a matriarchy, so mermen do not have the same power that human men do in the human world.

Known Members

• Kinder Merman † (formerly)
• Erik's Ancestors † (formerly)

Trivia

• Nerissa and her children, Mimmi and Zac Blakely, are only known descendants of the Kinder Merman.
• Southern merpeople from the South Pacific, such as of the Mako Pod, were infected after physical contact with snow and contracted Snow Rash.
• Sirena mentions that no one has seen a merman for centuries.
• The article Zac reads in "Getting Legs" is taken from a wikipedia article from 2013.