Syren


 * Syrens were the first to return to the High Ocean, some say before the radiation effects had entirely dissipated.
 * Syrens and Naians are closely interrelated by blood ties and a tradition of alliance, though this has become deeply strained since the end of the Surfacer Wars.
 * Syrens have a tendency towards lighter brownish streaks in their otherwise blue-black hair. This is known as 'sun-kissed', and is not always a compliment.
 * Perhaps 1 in 5 Syrens possess the recessive trait of aquamarine colored eyes. This is in contrast to the extremely dark midnight blue of the Naians and the inky black of the Manteans . Some say it affects their vision in the Deep, yet there is no proof of this.
 * Syrens are the only Oceanborn to inter their dead within sacred atolls of jagged, lifeless rock.
 * Syrens are said to be the most alike their Fin companions in temperment. This is claimed by others as often in admiration as it is in exasperation.
 * Syrens were the first to make contact with the human arrivals and possess the greatest understanding of Surfacer ways.
 * It is rumored that some of the original researchers and explorers became so close to the Syrens they encountered, that one or more of their descendants was adopted as a podmate.
 * Prior to the Surfacer Wars, Syrens were more numerous than Naians and Manteans combined. Their strength today is unknown, but is far less than before.
 * The Syren Mother Ship is the only ship to have regularly breached the surface of the ocean, in the centuries before it was destroyed.
 * Syrens thrill-seekers were quite adept at riding even monstrous surface waves.
 * There are some few Syren pods who still maintain tiny waystations on the surface, far outside the waters of the Exclusive Zone.
 * Syren society fractured with the loss of its Mother Ship and the accompanying deaths of their Home Council and ruling Exarch.


 * It is estimated that a third of the surviving Syrens have sought assimilation with their Naian brethren.
 * Most Syrens have broken off into a variety of violently quarrelling sub-clans, each lead lead by a Exarch-in-Exile claiming the highest authority.
 * The greatest of these Syren warlords is currently attempting to organize an expedition to the Little Rift, where the Manteans are in possession of the wreck of the Syren Mother Ship.
 * Some few Syrens have turned their back on their brethren, becoming renegades whether out of bitterness or desperation, and accepting employment by the SCI as guides or interdictors.