Sirens

Frequently confused for humans, sirens are an aquatic and land based creature. While sirens are shaped like humans and can easily be confused for human women, they are a creature in their own right. Sirens are able to focus their estus into the organs in their voice which make them speak and create powerful enchantment magics which are activated when they sing. These enchanted songs turn men into lustful, and make them desire she who sang the song. Because of this very dangerous ability, Sirens have always been hunted and the race has very rarely every been accepted throughout history. Many sirens have retreated to live on uncharted islands, and most live in covens, though there are still some which live amongst humans, using their powers to control men in power.

History
Known only from the histories of ancient covens, Sirens were one of the original species to be created in the early days of the First Age as the children of Silandria. The first sirens attested that the goddess Silandria took foam from the sea and used her song to give it form and life. When she tossed it onto land, a siren would crawl its way out, like the birth of animals from eggs. The reason this history has been lost and is known by so few is because Sirens were born in Asaland, whereas all other creatures born during the First Age were born in Arestoneiam.

Though no one was aware that Sirens lived across the Great Divide, sirens were aware of life in Arestoneiam. To keep their race alive, Siren covens frequently migrated to Arestoneiam, impregnated themselves, and returned to their homes in Asaland. The men they birthed were kept and raised to one day be a husband of a siren born in his generation where he would protect her and build for the coven. Women, sirens, were raised with the coven and taught how to use their abilities to control men, especially since their abilities had limits. When mankind and other species discover Asaland, siren covens used their magics to control villages of them and used them to raise cities. This is how the great city of Rayleen was built, by the coven Daughters of the Harpy. However, these glory days of sirens ruling came to an end when Max the Loved wasn’t taken under the effects of siren magic. He slaughtered an entire coven of sirens in the Age of Kings and made the public aware of sirens.

Since, sirens have lived in hiding. Many covens have turned to undiscovered islands where they use old tactics of going to the shore to get pregnant and returning to their islands when they’re done. Other siren packs have found safety in running brothels, very few in being the wives of lords and their court. Many find luxury in wrecking ships and stealing the treasure and weapons for their own personal gain.