Floodchasers

Sometimes, when there is a long and rainy winter accompanied by major floods, Floodchasers will spawn near or in large water sources that have overflown. They are blue, serpentine entities are very wide, but as thin as an arm, that split up at the end into five thin tails that get tied and looped through one another. Their back is a hard rough skin, covered in seashells. Their head-like tip is maned with small tentacles and barnacles, and their “face” is composed of a long vertical slit, with 3 smaller slits (“eyes”) on each side of it. Floodchasers are believed to hold magical powers. In some stories, those that find floodchasers are given the ability to breathe water, walk on water, or some other water-related ability. Myths about floodchasers are so common that some villages go “floodchasing” and travel to nearby rivers after floods and hard winters, as tradition.