from March’s Creatures Beyond the Walle

Hailing from the Sirenuse Isles, sirens are ethereal yet seductive magical creatures. Both male and female sirens are irresistible as well as gorgeous. They resemble humans in appearance, except they have massive wings. Sirens with fair hair have white wings, while those with dark hair have black wings.

In addition to being gorgeous, sirens have exquisite and enthralling voices, and they perform many musical instruments, although they favor harps. They can charm nearly anything, even the winds, with their musical gifts.

Sirens can be dangerous to the impressionable, bewitching them into doing things they would never ordinarily do. In ancient times, sirens would often lure nearby sailors to shipwreck on the Sirenuse Isles. However, now most sirens merely lure them into close calls.

The Sirenuse Isles are an archipelago of small isles stretching across the Envel Ocean. Half of the around 60,000 isles are ocean isles with rocky coasts, while the others are cloud isles tethered to the ocean isles by massive chains.

Preferring aeries, either in trees or along cliffs, sirens live together in septs, often one sept per isle, and ten to twenty septs form each sirenic clan. Sirenic clans are ruled by the strongest mated pair in the clan, and if one of the couple dies, the other cedes to the next strongest mated pair.

In recent centuries, some sirens have begun living in human kingdoms across Damensea, most as bards or players. Given their musical gifts, sirens make extraordinary bards, much better than humans. However, most sirens perform in troupes rather than alone.

Several renowned sirenic troupes perform in Ormas, so sirenic plays are a fashionable pastime for court. Sirenic plays are spectacular with flying sword fights, glass-shattering arias, and bewitching love scenes. Each troupe usually performs two or three different sirenic plays during the season.