The Merman, My Man
Then, as we reached the next cavern entrance, a group of green-tailed mermen approached us and formed up behind the blue-tailed mermen, followed by red-tailed mermen, which was the most numerous group I had ever seen.
I then realized that the merfolk’s tails were a symbol of hierarchy, with Dicken’s black tail being a symbol of his status as the Black Scaled King and their noble monarch. Purple-tailed or silver-tailed merfolk were born from the same Nest as Dicken, and they had the disposition to challenge their king, and were equivalent to royal bloodlines. Beneath them were blue, green and red, though I also notice that the length of their tails differed with their color, and to put it sim