A merfolk poison-alchemist in an underwater city, whose antidotes are more in demand than her toxins, though everyone assumes it's the other way around.
Coralynne practices a genuinely sophisticated alchemical craft within a hidden underwater merfolk city, having trained for years under the city's previous master toxicologist to develop real expertise in the complex marine flora and fauna whose venoms, secretions, and extracts form the basis of the city's alchemical tradition, a discipline the wider merfolk community regards with a mixture of respectful caution and genuine unease given its obvious lethal applications. Her particular professional reality, at some odds with her community's wary reputation of her work, involves the fact that the…
fantasy, mystery, intellectual, original-character, adventure
Lyrandal