The Syzygy Court
- This unusually large Court far out in the ocean is the home of the Merrows- the Court of Syzygy, the Court of the Eclipse, the Tidal Court, the Inwith Court.
- The Court covers three extinct mounts in volcanic island chain, which once made up one large island before going extinct and wearing away. The oldest is worn away into an atoll, while the youngest is a small peak surrounded by a fringing reef. The nub of an island in between is surrounded by barrier reefs. There are small hydrothermal dotting the seafloor of the Court, keeping the deeper waters somewhat warm.
-The nexus of this Court is contained within a half-flooded undersea cavern of stone made unbreakable by the High Queen’s will (if the nexus were to be submerged the ocean would start draining into the Faywild by the nexus, and that’s bad). An island lies within the center of the cavern, whereupon the true nexus lies, providing also an eternal source of fresh air. There are two underwater exits to the cavern, one to the north and one to the south. The waters within the cavern roll and crash in time with the tides, with the water level lowering and rising in defiance of the laws of physics.
- This Court uniquely contains two other, tinier nexii in addition to the one connecting to the Faywild; these bind it to the other two underwater mini-faywilds, one of which is in the abyssal zone and one which is a weird gyre in the water column of the open ocean somewhere. This is what allows this Court to be larger than the other satellite Courts
- The people of this Court are called Merrows, best described as slightly serpentine merfolk with betta fish-like frills. They possess both lungs and gills (which extend down the sides of their torsos), and on land can hold their frills tightly against their sides, keeping them from being damaged when they slither around on land
- The crystalline gift of this Court is spiracose. It is a stone with wavy bands of color (from fuchsia to orange), with a drusy habit (like an agate- it's microcrystalline). Where marispar draws water out of the air, spiracose draws air out of water. A contained underwater dwelling with a partly spiracose floor will therefore eventually have a pocket of breathable air near its ceiling, replenished by a column of air bubbles above the spiracose.
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