How to become a merperson in the world of RAME
I already told you the story how Egen and Ough met but now let me tell you how Ough became a mermaid :V
There are 4 ways of becoming a merperson in the world of RAME.
1. you were born a merperson
2. you are a shapeshifter with the ability to form into a merperson (shapeshifting doesn’t mean you can change into anything here)
3. a witch casts a spell on you so you become a merperson for a limited time only
4. a merperson makes you a merperson
Only 1. and 4. are permanent.
When Egen and Ough fell in love Ough decided to stay with her forever so she wanted to be a real mermaid. But the process of becoming a merperson permanently when you aren’t one right from the start is not funny.
Egen first didn’t want to do it because she had never done that before and she knew that she could fail and if that happened Ough would’ve died.
But they tried anyway.
Part one of the transformation is the preperation for the mind. It includes a ceremony with magic. A local witch/magician/priest is needed for that. Snow was their witch.
You need pieces of hair and a bit blood from the merperson and the one who wants to be a merperson. That will be mixed with algae and fresh spring water. A spell is cast upon the mixture and Ough had to drink it in one go.
After that the witch has to go home without sleeping that night.
Part two is the preperation for the new body. This is the part where the other person could die so it’s very important that everything is made calmly and serious.
The day after Ough drank the magic potion she had to sit in the kind of water she wanted to live as a merperson (since there are merpeople who live in fresh- or saltwater). Now the tricky part starts:
Egen had to pull Ough underwater. Ough had to hold her breath just for so long until Egen spoke the magic formula in her native language. After that it was Egen’s job to keep Ough underwater - because to completely become a merperson you need to drown first.
It is very painful to see your love die right before your eyes so Egen kissed Ough until she noticed that her heart wasn’t beating anymore.
Now you have to be quick! Egen ripped Ough’s skin open at the neck - that needed to be the place where her gills would grow. Then she bit in her tongue - you need more merperson-blood for that ritual. After that she needed to pump water into the fresh wound (just like you would do a mouth-to-mouth respiration). With the merperson blood and the magic words of the ritual gills should form quickly.
Fortunately it worked.
Ough came back to life but she still had the body of a human (except for the gills). Months of painful body-transformation and magic sessions with Snow later Ough looks how she looks now.
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