Tritons

A mermaid-like creature with a man's upper body and two tails. Not much is known about them as only a scrag shapeshifter has been seen.

Description
Tritons are relatives of mermaids and like them, they usually live in the wide seas and oceans of New Earth. While they lack the magic of enchantment, they are very powerful creatures who Simone describes as a scourge. Their symbol and greatest weapon is an ordinary conch shell.

Physical Description
Like other merfolk, tritons are a hybrid of fish and human with a humanoid upper body and an aquatic lower body. A triton's tail is truly unique as it splits into two fish tails. Unlike mermaids, tritons are very ugly with facial features resembling a goblin. Rows of spiny fins adorn the sides of their arms and tails. As a triton, Gruel was covered in silvery scales with a silvery-blue tail. It is unknown if a triton's colouring varies from individual to individual.

Powers and Abilities

 * Fish physiology: Like all merfolk, tritons, as fish-human hybrids, have the natural abilities of fish, abilities which are needed to live beneath the waves.
 * Underwater breathing: It is unknown how tritons breathe. They may breathe both water and air like the miengu, just air like mermaids or just water like a fish.
 * Swimming: With their twin tails, tritons can swim swiftly through the ocean currents with ease.
 * Pressure resistance: It is presumed that like sharks and dolphins, tritons can withstand greater amounts of pressure, allowing them to dive to depths no human could travel.
 * Conch shell: Tritons are capable of wielding powerful magic but they need conch shells to channel these powers. By using conch shells as trumpets or horns, tritons can wield their magic over the sea. This power is within the triton, not the shell. The conch's music is just needed to channel their power.
 * Water and weather manipulation: Water responds to the tritons' music and will do whatever they command. They can create surges of water capable of grabbing and pulling creatures as huge as a dragon below the waves, use water as a shield and drag creatures in a cage of liquid. Tritons are capable of creating waves big enough to destroy towns.
 * Aquatic fauna control: Triton music can control the minds of any weak-minded sea creature such as krakens. Their magic overrides the animals' instincts and forces them to obey the triton's commands and serve his goals.

Known Tritons

 * Gruel(shapeshifter)

Mythology
The triton is a creature from greek mythology. The first triton was the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea and Amphitrite, Goddess of the Sea. Triton was the mythical messenger of the ocean. In most representations, he is depicted as a merman.