Siren Lights

Details: The Siren Light is a monster named for obvious reasons. They live out in the water, often coming towards beaches during the night time. If they happen to come across someone they will begin to glow, lighting up various luminescent patches on their body. They use the pattern of their lights glowing in combination with their swimming to try and hypnotize their targets. Once their target has been thoroughly hypnotized they drag their targets out to sea and drown them. They feed on the corpse of whatever they were able to drag into the ocean. They are long and thin creatures with lots of sinewy muscles.

Lifespan and Development: Most Siren Lights live in groups, working together almost like a wolf pack to hypnotize people into entering the water and drowning them. A Siren Light will spend its entire life in a group, to lose it's group is almost certain death. It is possible for a Siren Light to find a new group but it is rare. When Siren Lights come across other group they will often trade members so they the genetics of a group don't get too muddled. Siren Lights often live in groups where most of the members are siblings and the leaders are usually the parents. When trading members sometimes a new pair will take over the group as the breeding pair and other times a pair will go off to make their own group.

Siren Lights are born into the world live. When they are born the entire group will care for them. When Siren Lights are first born they stay in little sand ditches on the ocean floor as they don't posses the strength to swim yet. One or two members of the family will be with them at all times. When the family makes a kill it will drag the corpse back for the children as well as the members not present to make the kill. If the kill is a small one the children will always eat first. As Siren Lights get older they start to get the strength to swim, however they still have no control over their luminescence. This is the most dangerous time in the life of a Siren Light, as their lights go haywire and they have the potential to attract predators. To prevent this parents will find mud like substances to smear over the glowing spots of the child.

Once the child has begun to glow and swim they are old enough to go out on hunts, even if their own lights are too faulty and weak to attract prey. They will observe their parents and family members and mimic them in an attempt to help. At 2 arcs a Siren Light will be full grown and able to properly use their lights to help the family hunt for prey.

Diet: The diet of a Siren Light mostly consists of anything that they can attract from the shore line and convince to go into the water. Sometimes a Siren Light pack desperate for food will attack boats, trying to get sailors to jump off and even attempting to tip smaller boats that only have a person or two in them.

Temperament: Siren Lights are often considered to be mischievous in nature. When they aren't hungry they might even take to tease people by dragging them into the water where they stop glowing to break the trance. They derive some kind of joy from watching people panic. When hungry the become far more aggressive, targeting anyone and going as shallow as they possibly can. Some Siren Lights have even been found dead, washed up on the shore because they were desperate for food. Dead Siren Lights are usually something to be celebrated.

Abilities: Glowing bodies that hypnotize creatures on shore. Shocking strength for drowning their prey.

Weaknesses: The easiest way to avoid a Siren Light attack is to just not look at the Siren Lights. There is a 10 trill period of time before someone goes into the trance. If they can look away in time then they can get away. High Meditation or Discipline skills can also provide safety.

Creator: Nightshade