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LLYWELLA, Goddess of Fishes, has Her glorious undersea Palace in a bay on the other side of the Isle. The sea all around the Isle is a breeding ground for He most beautiful fish and Her Elementals, the mermen, protect it fiercely from fishermen.
Having brought the fishes to the seas, LLYWELLA now seeks to bring people there too. So She has embarked on a breeding programme to produce the sea-folk. The mermen seal off the Secret Isle with the perpetual ring of sea-mist and drive off or wreck ships which attempt to penetrate it. They steal babies for the sea-folk colonies, and also shipwrecked seafarers or fishermen who transgress the Law of LLYWELLA (and since the Law is "Harm No Fish", fishermen do tend to transgress it!). Also the mermaids seduce young men along human and elvish lands. The sea-people are a cross breed of human or elvish with mer stock.
The mermen act as guides and protectors to the sea people. They encourage them in Druidism and ensure that they worship only LLYWELLA. Adult captives are put through ordeals to ensure their loyalty; those showing strong devotion to other Gods are usually taken to the edges of cliffs or volcanoes to test their Gods' devotion to them...
Whilst the sea-folk are superb swimmers and love and respect marine life, and LLYWELLA, the breeding programme, which would otherwise have been completed by now, still faces one great problem: only a few of the cross-breeds possess the power of water breathing. The programme therefore continues.
In Her search for an answer to the problem LLYWELLA has conducted some bizarre experiments on living creatures. The stranger creatures that inhabit the Isle are some of the products of such experiments. Chief amongst them are the satyrs and centaurs. The mermen can usually cow them. LLYWELLA is more wary of releasing their aquatic counterparts into the seas.
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