Which carries some really uncomfortable connotations. There are many mermaids out there that look pretty and badass, but not the Siren - she's just so utterly wretched-looking, and apparently she used to be a lover of the Ancestor, but as part of a deal that the Ancestor made with the vile Pelagic creatures for underwater riches (again, a reference to the Shadows over Innsmouth story), the Ancestor threw the poor girl as a sacrifice, and the Pelagics made her "their queen. The Siren: The first boss of the Cove is this huge, mutated mermaid with the most sorry-looking and wretched face, huge webbed claws, and an anglerfish lure. All the Pelagic monsters are pure-Eldritch, and they are resistant to Bleed effects. The Shaman is both a healer and a stress-inducer, and I do like the weird little glowing beard it has and the kooky sea urchin staff it has. I have the utmost respect for the Grouper, and compared to the basic "footsoldier" for the bandits, undead, swinefolk and fungus people, the Grouper's in my experience the one that hits the hardest. I love that the basic enemy, the Grouper, has a harpoon and a cutlass, making it kind of similar to a pirate of sorts. Pelagic Grouper & Pelagic Shaman: The Cove is populated by monstrous fish-men, a reference to The Shadow over Innsmouth, one of the more iconic and popular Lovecraft works, which featured creepy fish-people, and these Pelagic monsters (pelagic is an adjective referring to fish originating from the open sea) are pretty neat! There's always something grotesque about fish and their creepy eyes and open mouths, and putting these weird piranha-style heads on a mostly humanoid body is pretty creepy.
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