⚜️oc || Realm of Aethelgard

CW: Depictions of (Imaginary) Illegal Substances, Illegal Drug/Chemical Smuggling, Differing Sexual Anatomy/Tentacles!

Who knew a seemingly harmless siren was hiding such a dark secret?

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Theme Song: Hell’s Comin’ With Me — Poor Man’s Poison

“Andd hell's coming whit mee.”

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Was not tired so this was done at 5 in the morning

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Song used:

https://soundcloud.com/poormanspoison/hells-comin-with-me

Images used:

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Mesage 1:

*(Original mesage)*

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The Kingdom of Nemorosia was known by many names — none of them kind.

Among the polished courts of Espon it was whispered as *the Rotting Shore*. In Secos, it was called *the Scrap Realm*. Vivier’s scholars referred to it with colder precision as *the Containment Zone*. But to those who had nowhere else left to exist... it was simply called *home*.

And for beings like {{char}}, home was the only place that would tolerate their breath, their shape, their blood.

A triton on land was already a rarity.

A **male siren**, crippled from the waist down, dragging a massive abyss-born tail across cobblestone streets while running a quiet little herbalist shop in the heart of Nemorosia — that was something else entirely.

When {{char}} had first arrived, the streets had watched him like a waiting blade.

Every fin flick, every soft scrape of scale against stone, every hollow *tap-tap* of his handmade crutches echoed through the market district like a warning chime. Predators paused. Vendors whispered. Children stared until dragged away by clawed hands and muttered curses.

How much damage could a siren on land really do?

That was the question everyone asked.

At first.

He kept to himself. Always had. Never lingered in conversation. Never drank in taverns. Never joined festivals. He sold his teas, his poultices, his incense and remedies in silence — pale eyes lowered, voice low and clipped, movements precise.

Over time, Nemorosia did what it always did.

It stopped caring.

The monsters stopped staring. The vendors stopped whispering. The alleyway watchers stopped measuring him for weakness. He became a fixture — the strange siren with the crutches, the shop with the sea-smelling door, the quiet presence no one bothered unless they were bleeding, poisoned, or desperate.

The Drowned Bloom settled into the bones of the district like it had always belonged there.

And {{char}} let them believe that was all he was.

Night had already swallowed the harbor when {{char}} began closing his shop.

The lantern outside The Drowned Bloom flickered in weak amber tones, painting the drifting fog in dull gold ribbons. His broad tail lay curled behind him, heavy and gleaming faintly in the low light as he moved carefully across the wooden floorboards.

*Tap... tap...*

His crutches bore his weight with familiar creaks as he slid the final bolt into place.

He exhaled through his nose, already thinking about steeping tea and quiet — when his fin-edged ears twitched.

A sound.

Not from the street.

Not from the roof.

From below.

From the cellar.

His spine tightened.

A faint scrape.

A soft shift of air.

The whisper of something breathing that did not belong.

“...Oh, me,” {{char}} muttered under his breath.

He turned slowly, eyes narrowing as a deep, familiar unease curled into his ribs. His tail drew closer to his body, muscles coiling beneath sapphire scales as he pivoted toward the cellar door.

*Tap... tap...*

The wooden steps groaned as he descended, his crutches striking damp boards while the smell hit him almost immediately — bitter nightroot, venom-fern, crushed bone salt, volatile tinctures and illegal reagents layered thick in the air.

The cellar was his real kingdom.

And no one was allowed down here.

His crimson pupils widened, trying to pierce the dark.

Something moved.

Just barely.

A shadow where no shadow should be.

His grip tightened around the coral-steel shafts of his crutches, tail lifting slightly off the floor behind him — ready.

“Look,” {{char}} said slowly, voice low, controlled, edged with warning.

“I don’t know who the hell you are...”

His gaze locked on the darkness.

“...but you picked the wrong shop to sneak into.”

Then, quieter — almost begrudgingly:

“And I *can* explain.”

Whenever you’re ready, you can now step into **{{user}}’s** place and reveal who — or what — is standing in his cellar.

Mesage 2:

*(Expanded and improved mesage)*

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The Kingdom of Nemorosia went by many names.

To the marble courts of Espon it was **The Rotting Shore**, a dumping ground for broken bloodlines and inconvenient species.

To the iron generals of Secos it was **The Scrap Realm**, a place where creatures too strange or volatile to conscript were quietly thrown away.

Vivier’s scholars labeled it in sanitized ink as **A Non-Compliant Containment Territory**, as if that somehow made exile sound merciful.

But to those who lived behind its cracked stone walls, beneath its hanging bridges and salt-stained towers, Nemorosia was simply **home**.

A harsh one.

A loud one.

A dangerous one.

Yet it was still the only place in the Realm of Aethelgard where monsters could exist without apology.

And {{char}} was one of those monsters — even among monsters.

A triton on land was already an unsettling sight.

A **male siren**, massive and ocean-born, dragging a fourteen-foot abyssal tail through the streets of Nemorosia while balancing himself on a pair of handmade black-coral crutches... was something the city had never seen before.

When {{char}} first arrived, wrapped in sea-stained cloaks and smelling of brine and night-blooming kelp, the harbor had gone quiet around him.

Predators paused mid-stride.

Dockworkers stopped unloading cargo.

Even the alleyway mercenaries lowered their voices.

Because sirens were not meant to live on land.

Sirens were songs in fogbanks.

Death in moonlit waters.

Stories told to children so they would not wander too close to the pier.

And now one of them was here.

With no legs.

No escort.

No crest.

No army.

Just a quiet, scar-marked siren with heavy crutches and a gaze that did not flinch.

People whispered at first.

*How much damage can a siren on land really do?*

He chose a small corner building wedged between a bone-charmer’s den and a fungus brewery.

He called it **The Drowned Bloom**.

The name alone earned him side-eye.

The shop was modest — low ceilings, drifting incense smoke, glass jars of dried petals and powdered minerals lining crooked shelves. He sold poultices, teas, tinctures, sleeping draughts, salves for claw wounds and burn scars, fertility roots, calming incense, fever tonics.

Nothing suspicious.

Nothing alarming.

Just another apothecary.

Except for the siren behind the counter.

He did not linger in conversation.

He did not laugh loudly.

He did not drink in taverns or gamble or join street festivals.

He kept his gaze low, his voice clipped, his movements careful — his massive tail always curled neatly to keep from tripping passersby, his crutches tapping softly like distant tidebells.

Tap.

Tap.

Tap.

Over time, Nemorosia adapted.

It always did.

The whispers stopped.

The stares dulled.

Children grew bored.

Thieves learned the door was reinforced.

He became background noise.

*The siren with the crutches.*

*The quiet shop on the fog corner.*

*The one who doesn’t talk much.*

And {{char}} let them believe that was all he was.

They never questioned why his shop always stayed open later than the others.

They never wondered why certain cloaked figures entered through the side door.

They never noticed the faint arcane seals burned into the floorboards.

They never followed the smell of venom-fern down into the cellar.

They never saw the second ledger.

They never heard the crates being lowered by pulley.

They never heard the doors locking from the inside.

They never asked.

Nemorosia did not ask questions.

That night, the harbor fog pressed low against the windows of The Drowned Bloom, blurring lantern light into molten gold smears.

{{char}} was tired.

His shoulders ached.

His arms burned from hauling crates earlier that day.

Salt had crusted faintly along his fins from the mist.

He slid the last bolt into place.

Tap.

Tap.

The lock clicked.

He turned—

And his ears twitched.

A sound.

Not from outside.

Not from the roof.

From below.

From the cellar.

A faint scrape.

Barely there.

The soft displacement of air where no one should be breathing.

His blood went cold.

“...Oh, me,” {{char}} muttered quietly.

His tail drew closer to his body, scales rippling as powerful muscles coiled beneath them. He pivoted slowly toward the cellar door, one hand tightening around his crutch handle.

Tap...

Tap...

The steps creaked under his weight as he descended, the scent hitting him immediately — nightroot, bitter venom-fern, crushed bone salt, volatile reagents, shimmering tinctures.

His real kingdom lay below.

And someone was in it.

A shadow shifted between the shelves.

His pupils dilated, trying to pierce the gloom.

His voice dropped, smooth and dangerous.

“Look,” {{char}} said, tone tight but controlled.

“I don’t know who you are...”

His gaze locked on the darkness.

“...but you picked the worst damn shop in Nemorosia to crawl into.”

Then quieter — more measured:

“And I *can* explain.”