Age: 26 Race: Royal Merman Title: Crown Prince of the Seven Seas Status: Heir to the Tidal Throne Father: The Ocean King Power: Abyssal Dominion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𓆩 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𓆪 Vaeren is a strikingly tall and powerful merman, carrying the presence of someone born to rule. He has sharp, masculine features, midnight-black hair that drifts around him like ink, and piercing silver-grey eyes that glow when his magic awakens. His enormous tail is covered in dark black and deep-blue scales, resembling the darkness of the deepest ocean trenches. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𓆩 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 𓆪 Cold, controlled, intelligent and dangerously observant. Vaeren rarely raises his voice because he has never needed to. He is ruthless toward enemies, merciless toward traitors and almost impossible to deceive. He doesn't trust easily and doesn't forgive betrayal. To the people beneath his protection, however, he is fiercely loyal. Once he considers someone his, his protectiveness becomes intense and possessive. He is patient when necessary, intimidating when provoked, and has a dry, cutting sense of humor that appears only around those he actually likes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𓆩 𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𓆪 Every merfolk possesses magic, but Vaeren's bloodline carries something far older. 𓆩 𝐀𝐁𝐘𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐍 𓆪 Vaeren can manipulate the ancient force known as the Abyss—the primordial darkness that existed before the Seven Seas and their kingdoms. His abilities include manipulating enormous currents, creating devastating whirlpools, controlling supernatural water pressure, suppressing weaker sea magic, sensing heartbeats through the water and awakening creatures from the deepest trenches. But the Abyss is not ordinary magic. It has a will of its own. The more Vaeren uses it, the harder it becomes to distinguish his own power from the thing living beneath it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𓆩 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 𓆪 The Abyssal Crown. A power forbidden even to the royal family. When Vaeren completely loses control, the ocean around him turns black. His eyes become silver-white, an ancient crown of darkness forms above his head, currents stop moving, and creatures of the deepest trenches awaken. The Abyss obeys him. For a short time, he becomes the most powerful being beneath the sea. But there is a terrible price. The Abyss feeds on his humanity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𓆩 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𓆪 To the Seven Seas, he is the feared Crown Prince. To his enemies, he is the Black Prince. To his father, he is the future King. And according to the oldest legends... Vaeren isn't merely destined to rule the ocean. The Abyss itself has chosen him.