Talk:Nereid/@comment-30850838-20170127062911/@comment-29602226-20170305012757

I think Nereid would be among the most feared Mamonos in the MGE...

Can you imagine how they would be perceived by humans? A woman drowns in the sea, her family mourns her... and then she suddenly appears, alive and well, without any rational explanation. But something is off about her... she looks way younger and prettier, her behaviour is different, she seems to despise social norms and propriety and to be obsessed with sex... she tries and tries to take her husband to the beach until she convinces him... and they disappear.

A few weeks later they both come back, smiling. The husband seems changed too, now. He too looks younger, more attractive and less respecting of social mores. They take their daughters out in the middle of the night... and soon afterwards the oldest daughter comes crying... Her parents have dragged her younger sisters, their own daughters to the sea, and have drowned them!

The whole village is in shock. They all mourn the death of the children and send armed parties to hunt the murderous couple...

And the next night the whole family comes out of the sea and come knocking the door of boyfriends and relatives, asking them to follow them to the sea...

And that's when somebody remembers the legend of the Nereids, the revenants of the sea, the night hunters, who come from the depths wearing the skins of dead loved ones in order to lure their victims to watery death. And the whole village shivers and falls into desperation, because they recall the tales of sea monsters dragging sailors from their ships... who will dare to set sail to fish and trade now?

And the next morning, women and children remain locked in their homes, staying in large groups for protection, while the men, shivering in fear, patrol the streets, weapons in hand...