Sli'ietluk-lef't
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Name: Sli'ietluk-lef'tRace: Mer
Age: Ymiden 32nd, 685
Title: Speaker for the Nonwantad Tribe
Moderation Type: Mod Input
Able/Willing to Mentor?: No
Skills able/willing to Mentor in: N/A
Other Information: Sli'ietluk-lef't is a Category Four Mer, meaning he possesses legs and can walk on land. Unfortunately for him, being hatched within the Yaralon region also meant that he was hatched within the territory of the Meerabelard tribe, which did not welcome Sli'ietluk-lef't into their society. A Mer without people is commonly considered a walking corpse, but Sli'ietluk-lef't, for whatever reason, refused this as his fate. It may have been his intense desire to survive, it may have been his acute sense of justice, or perhaps his strong sense of spite, but Sli'ietluk-lef't would sooner see himself become Leviathan than accept death by societal construct.
And so, he set on his own. Quickly, he found an abundance of other Category 4 Mer abandoned by the intense regime of the Meerabelard. There were little options to be pursued. Seeing at he was hatched on the shores of Yaralon, passage to a friendlier tribe meant traversing leagues upon leagues of unfriendly waters. Sli'ietluk-lef't was not up for that task. Instead, he lead the others of his kind to an area close to the Yaralon Harbor, which he knew to be an area ripe for industry.
It was there, a mere three miles off the Harbor, that Sli'ietluk-lef't and his newly established countrymen would found Nonwantad, an independent village which stood in stark opposition to the Meerabelard. This tribe, consisting of exclusively Category 4 Mer, grew nearly exponentially in numbers in the coming arcs. These Mer banded closely, quickly learning to rely not on their ability to fend for themselves to survive, but on their combative prowess, both above surface and below.
On Sli'ietluk-lef't's orders, the Mer of Nonwantad would raid any vessel that wandered too close to their territory, as long as said vessel had a crew smaller than the numbers of the Nonwantad. They would raid the ships, taking anything and everything they could feasibly trade on the Yaralon shores, and retreated, effectively becoming a sincere threat to Yaralon trade.
Eventually, a deal was struck between Sli'ietluk-lef't and many of the emperors and empresses of Yaralon; to stop raiding incoming and outgoing ships in return for salary as mercenary guards for the harbor itself.
And so, Sli'ietluk-lef't soon became the speaker for the tribe of the Nonwantad, who, against odds stacked against them, not only survived but found a way to thrive apart from the Meerabelard. Although, the tribe is still subject of frequent attacks from the Meerabelard, as well as many other unfriendly bodies, but under the leadership and tact of Sli'ietluk-lef't, the Nonwantad have been able to withstand even that.
Sli'ietluk-lef't remains largely underwater and within the Sli'ietluk-lef't proper, but can periodically be seen on the Harbor's grounds.
Credit: Astronomy