Growing up, Seranna’s bedroom was blessed with an attached balcony overlooking the ocean. Long nights spent staring off into the distance and wondering as to what lies beneath the waves spawned an immeasurable love for the sea and the creatures in it. Though considered rather unlady like she would often sneak off from her duties as a noblewoman and vanish beneath the waves, swimming to her hearts content, rather than being forced to deal with the struggling of the bureaucracy. Her feelings towards the ocean were no more a secret then her dedication to the Goddess of Love, however no one was quite prepared for the unorthodox union that would follow.
Her family was shocked, and some, appalled on the day of her wedding. They discovered then that the woman had not wed some rich noble from a neighboring land, but rather an alien creature from another realm of existence. She argued that he was a man of noble birth, even of celestial origins, that he had come to her under the Goddess’s guidance, and of all her suitors none showed sincere love for her such as he did. Begrudgingly her family accepted this. However, it was only a matter of time before the politics of noble life caught up to Seranna.
One fated evening she was upon a ship that was caught in a terrible storm. The boat was torn asunder and all its occupants were thrown into the sea. Only Seranna and Zogith survived the event. While she spun a story of how she was now twice blessed by the Goddess, and of the heroic efforts of her beloved husband, her younger brother told a different tale. He whispered of evil pacts with vile creatures of the sea, of oaths to unspeakable evils for the sake of power. It seemed far too coincidental that the nobles of the court that frowned upon Seranna’s ways would perish upon that vessel, that their deaths would leave a power vacuum that she could have easily filled. His words were wicked and searing, but in the end his propaganda campaign was successful, and what Seranna had always called a blessing, the people now called a curse. Fearing her death would either enrage whatever denizens of the deep she had made a pact with, or that she was right all along, and their Goddess would forsake them for slaying one of her chosen, they decided the safest course of action was to exile her, banish the noblewoman and her husband to a land too far removed to cause them any further harm.
