The Tale of Alcedor and Cir

For centuries, the numari lived in blissful ignorance of the rest of the world. In the year 1579, the spell over the Opasnan Sea was broken, rendering its once treacherous waters traversable and revealing the neighbouring lands of Orbis to the Numarian people.
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Long ago, two sisters led the earliest tribes of the numari. Alcedor, a Waterkeeper, led the peoples of the West, while Cir, a Firekeeper, led the peoples of the East. Under their rule, the Numarian tribes lived in harmony.
Bored of the peaceful nature of the numari, the Vengeful God, Daeros, sought to sow strife between the sisters. He told them of lands far to the east, where the Goddess of Chaos, once created a people who dearly loved to mine the deep riches beneath the surface and use them to produce terrifying weapons. However, in their search for stronger materials to fuel their wars, they dug themselves further and deeper beneath the surface - so deep that all the Numares but himself had forgotten them.
Lord Daeros' plot had worked, and the two sisters were at odds. Cir, ever ambitious and adventurous, longed to discover the new lands and people to learn their secrets. Alcedor, protective and stalwart, rejected the new people and their ambition driving them further and deeper from the gods. The conflict drove the two sisters apart, each certain that they held the plan that would secure the prosperity of Numaria. Arguments turned into battle, and the two sisters fought for many days. It was only when they were both at the brink of death that they finally parted ways.
Knowing she could neither convince nor best her sister in battle without help, Cir gathered her followers and set off to the new lands of the east. Upon learning what her sister had done, Alcedor feared what ambition and power would do to Cir, and sought a way to prevent her return. She prayed to Marus, the god of the seas, to curse the Opasnan to be so treacherous that Cir's ships would never find safe harbour in Numaria again. Marus, enchanted by Alcedor's beauty and devotion, agreed to Alcedor's request on the condition that she throw herself into the sea and become his bride.
Cir reached the new lands and named them Cirra, where she mingled with the local population and birthed the first humans. Alcedor, sacrificing herself to the sea to protect her homeland, lost her legs in favour of a fishtail to become the first mer of Alcedon.

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