Mermage

''Have you ever wished that your mental catalogue of someone could be flayed from your memory completely? Maybe someone who betrayed you and makes your blood boil every time you recall them. What about someone who passed away who makes your eyes well every time you think of their face? Do you even have someone you loved so deeply that their absence in your life may drive you to end it all? These ailments are nothing to the controversial 'healing' powers of the mermage.''

Maidens of Memorial
Mermages are semi-transparent spirits that appear as humanoid-shaped water. Rarely in true form, they regularly hold a favored appearance collected from a visitor. They can be found in Sorrowponds, the term given for underwater pocket caves in the mountains that border The Frozen North. These caves hold mystical pools that glow a soft turquoise and house deep spiritual and psychic energies. One attuned would notice that these bodies of water are rich with memories, entire mental profiles of people that someone has discarded or lost.

Varieties of Mermage
As mermages are fickle beings who can be either benevolent, wicked or sometimes both. Each has their own agenda including the occasional mermage who is completely mad.

Every mermage you meet could desire for you a different fate. Predatory mermages may lure you in to drain you of your juiciest memories for sustenance before letting you go or letting you perish in their icy cave. Empathic mermages however simply wish to have your company and listen to your problems. They may hear of a lost love or a bitter rival and will offer to extract the bad memory from you as a service knowing that they can live off of your burden. An inevitable fate befalls all mermages that live long enough which is that of madness. Consuming countless memories over their years results in hundreds to thousands of voices filling their heads driving them to be powerful and chaotic forces of nature unpredictable in their desires.

Illusory Masters
Magisterial over illusionary magic, these creatures are able to take the psychic energy that is a memory and utilize it as a template. With little effort, these creatures can manifest their appearance as the one in the memory for whatever gain it may serve. Maddened mermages have been recorded displaying their facade as a horror of many personalities, a fusion of many mortals with multiple sets of mouths and eyes that must either seem normal to the mermage or terrifying enough for their purposes.

Reproduction
If a mermage can see itself past its stage of madness, its multiple prominent personalities may become so fully fledged that they physically burst from its former host. Many new mermages are created in this way, each with its own prime personality that it may mimic. The prime personality that it inherits seems to decide whether they become a predatory or empathic mermage.