Mairead

Mairead

Physical Description

Body Features

Mairead has an amethyst coloured tail with unevenly forked caudal fin, alternating with translucent blue-purple and purple-pink, resembling stained glass. The membrane of her fan-ears is similarly coloured.

Special abilities

Mairead is a skilled warrior, but has also mastered the Oceansong.

Apparel & Accessories

Mairead typically dresses with a sparkling cerulean. across the shoulder criss-crossed top and a translucent skirt with open sides, secured by a deep "v" shaped golden belt. She typically wears a light blue veil, as well as golden, vambrace-like bracelets and spiral arm bands on her upper arms.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Viking Raider

Mairead was born in a small village in The Lost Peninsula before joining a Viking crew raiding along the Ar Mor Marv. After several successful raids, her village received word of great riches to the South, where the Viking warlord Hastings Fireforged was seeking Northern allies to plunder the wealthy Silvercoast. Mairead was part of a small fleet that sailed to take up Hasting's offer.
Sailing around the Armorican Peninsula, the fleet was pushed by heavy winds into Cadfan's Tempest, with most ships being smashed against the rocks near Barrad-Faout. A small group of survivors drifted into Douarnenez Bay. Only 6 of the nearly 200 who had set out from the Lost Peninsula were left alive by the time they were discovered by the Marie-Morgane, led by Yannic Corentin. The survivors, including Mairead, heard the call of The Oceansong and were transformed into Marie-Morgane themselves.

Journey to Ubar

Mairead served as a member of Yannic Corentin's command for many years, earning the respect of her sisters for her daring battles against The Finfolk in the Lower Wards and the Seawall.
One day, Mairead was acting as the Chorus for a young Marie-Morgane attempting her first Courtship, only to discover that the object of the girl's affections was a slaver luring her into a trap. Mairead sprung into action, freeing the girl, but was captured herself. Despite the best efforts of the Marie-Morgane, the slaver windship proved adept at outmaneuvering them, and Mairead was taken to the Slave markets of Slaver's Coast, near the Emirate of Nekor, where she was sold to another slaver, who brought her to Iram of the Pillars as a gift for the Caliph. The Caliph gifted her to the spice merchant Isra, who brought her to his oasis estate near the Brass City.

Mairead and Isra

Isra was a wealthy merchant on the rise, and was honored by the gift of the beautiful mermaid. Knowing that others like her had fared poorly in the dry desert, he declared he would be the first to succeed in keeping one. To this end, he purchased an oasis near the Brass City, and constructed a great pleasure palace of marble, silver and lapis lazuli, drawing on the powers of the Djinn to construct a fabulous sanctuary of pools, tanks and aqueducts. Mairead, with her tail like stained glass, would be the centerpiece of his palace of wonders.
Originally viewing Mairead as a symbol of his wealth and prestige, Isra spent more and more time at the water's edge, getting to know her, listening to her stories and adventures. She proved a wonderful companion and a trusted advisor, and gradually, he fell in love with her. But Mairead was not content or willing to be a toy for the whims of the merchant, no matter how sincere his love was becoming.
Mairead worked with the other women of Isra's harem, recruiting allies to her cause. She gradually took over the administration of the household, replacing servants and guards with those loyal to her. She would run the household and business when Isra was away. And then, with everything in place, she enacted her plan. Mairead had never mentioned she was a similherez, nor that she knew the secrets of the Oceansong. After convincing Isra to dismiss the staff for the night, she welcomed him to her pool. Alone in their palace, she sung her song, transforming her "master" into a mermaid like herself. Initially in shock, Isra quickly adapted to her new life with her "mistress", eagerly devoting herself to their new situation.
When the staff returned, Mairead explained that the master had gone on a long voyage, but had brought the new mermaid into their home as a companion for her. Over the years, Mairead transformed much of the harem and some of the staff, establishing a Marie-Morgane presence in the City of Brass, using Isra's powerful trade network to orchestrate the freeing of other slaves, captives and errant drifters.

Sexuality

Mairead is a lesbian, primarily in a romantic relationship with her wife Isra, but also part of a larger polycule of other former harem girls.

Intellectual Characteristics

Despite being raised and trained as a warrior, Mairead proved adept at managing both the intricacies of Isra's spice trading empire, as well as the cutthroat palace intrigue of the Caliphate. She is observant, incisive and idealistic, devoted to the causes championed by the Daughters of Ys.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

To end the slave trade in Ubar and offer sanctuary to the abused and forgotten.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Isra - Mairead's former master and current wife. Their original relationship has evolved into a more egalitarian one, although Isra, fully devoted to her lover, often places herself in a subservient role to her "mistress."

Scheherazade - The Djinn storyteller was and is a regular guest of Isra's and assisted in the foundation of Mairead's underground network smuggling Marie-Morgane into and out of the caliphate. She seeks to use the network to find her lost daughter.
The Merrow - Formerly part of the Beg-Sabrenn, the military order of Ys-Beneath-the-Waves, Mairead's primary contact with her sisters is now through the Merrow, the spies, smugglers and assassins of the Marie-Morgane. She sees few of them directly, but associates regularly with a small operation in Ocina.

Current Location

Ramaal Mutaharika - The Shifting Sands

Species

The Marie-Morgane

Ethnicity

Manchais

Current Residence

The City of Brass

Pronouns

She/Her

Sex

Female

Gender

Woman

Presentation

Feminine

Eyes

Seafoam Green

Hair

Amber brown, usually braided in a long sidelock.

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Pale White