Siren's Grotto

Siren's Grotto is a subterranean waterway that flows from the Western Wastes into the Cobaltscar. Due to the impassable cliff faces of the Cobaltscar, those who wish to pass from the waters of the scar to the tundra of the Western Wastes must make their way upstream through the caverns of the Siren's Grotto.

The caverns and tunnels of the grotto are completely submerged with the exception of the occasional pocket of air trapped by a cavern ceiling extending above the water line. Stalactites and stalagmites of limestone and ice as well as other beautiful formations decorate the entire length of the grotto. The waters of the grotto are amazingly clear and seem to sparkle with an inexplicable luminescence. Such beauty tends to mystify those who visit it, clouding their minds. The grotto has claimed the lives of many who lost track of time and drowned when their life-supporting enchantments wore off.

The sirens of the grotto are powerful enchantresses, being the exclusive followers of E`ci, the greater Goddess of Ice and member of the Triumvirate of Water. Much of the grotto's fascinating beauty is owed to the sirens themselves, who have enhanced their home through magic. The voices of the sirens are the primary means by which they work their magic, their vocal sounds carried through the water like the eerie, alluring tones of a whale's echo masked behind a seductive female vibrato.

Simpler-minded beings make up the other inhabitants of the grotto. Nearly transparent albino fish and fish that often glow with an internal bio-luminescence swim throughout the caverns and tunnels, providing food for killer whales that guard the grotto's entrance from Cobaltscar. There are rumors of an ancient snapping turtle of great size that is trapped in a cavern deep within the grotto and sustained by the sirens since it cannot escape the narrower waterways to hunt for its own food. water and ice elementals from the Plane of Water have been summoned as servants for the sirens and neriads; they are entities forged of pure water appearing in the corporeal form of a lovely woman. They functions as the sirens' handmaidens. Often a male victim will be lured into the grotto by a siren's song, only to drown in the embrace of an awaiting neriad.