Datalog #12

The mermaid island is a mysterious paranormal location that contains strange, mysterious powers of transformation. It seems to ignore the basic laws of the universe, as it is a deeply magickal location that can exist without issues even in worlds separated from the universal ether field, an anomaly of all known magickal science. This eldritch location always exists approximately half a mile from the shore, constantly traveling around any large landmass counterclockwise. Once it finishes a rotation, it shifts randomly to the next closest large landmass where it then rotates around that location, continuing to cycle around the continents of its host planet for 10,000 years before shifting to another random planet that hosts intelligent life.

When entering the island, the traveler seems to be sent to some sort of other realm that overlaps with our own. A realm where it is always night and the full moon always shines from above. The island consists of only a small cave with a pool of perfectly clear and shining water in the middle of it. This pool reflects the moonlight coming from this strange pocket dimension, and when bathing in this pool the unspeakable happens. The traveler is miraculously transformed into a beautiful mermaid! Why this happens is unknown, but it seems to be due to a combination of the transformation-type ether in the water combined with the eldritch moon shining down triggering the ether to enter the target’s bloodstream, transforming them into a being best adapted for their current environment, in this case being a mermaid.

This transformation is luckily not permanent, as when a newly-transformed mermaid enters land and fully dries their tail, their tail will shift back into human legs and they will lose all their mermaid traits, that is until their skin touches water again in which they will return to their true, mermaid forms. Transformed mermaids are always female, so any males that happen to bathe in the waters of the mermaid island will become female mermaids when submerged in water, but will become male again when they return to human form. The transformed mermaid state also grants high level cyromancy, aquamancy, and purification powers, incredible speed in water, the ability to communicate telepathically to any sea creature, improved beauty even when in human form, softer, silkier, faster growing hair, an inhumanly beautiful singing voice while in either form, and various other superpowers.

This strange island shifted across the waters of Zutara for nearly 10,000 years, though it only first appeared in 9013 AF shortly before the 13th Calamity where 95% of all land and air based life on Zutara perished in a massive flood of light. However, this island was only first noticed on the coast of China in 7989 AC (1989 CE) long after the Great Division where the worlds of man and magick were separated. A group of four girls were fleeing the fascist government after staging a protest. Reaching a dead end, they fled into the ocean, finding a haven in the mermaid island and willingly turning themselves into mermaids in order to escape. They now live in hiding in a hidden colony in the South China Sea constantly looking for other transformed mermaids to join their commune.

After finishing its 500-year-long rotation around Europe, Africa, and Asia, the island moved to the continent of Australia which the island rotated around from 7991 AC (1991 CE) to 8021 AC (2021 CE), 30 years. During this time in 7994 AC (1994 AD), the island was discovered by a group of girls, one of who was a reincarnation of a talented white-haired sorceress from another world. They were transformed into mermaids, but continued to try to live their lives as humans, which remained difficult due to their new transformation and powers. Upon being found out, they fled to the sea where they lived in the seas of South Australia for some time.

Then, 40 years later in the year 8034 AC (2034 AD), a young man found the mermaid island and was transformed into a mermaid himself, gaining a female body in the process. This newly transformed mermaid went on many adventures with the girls who were transformed 40 years earlier, in the end sacrificing himself in a time portal in order to prevent an apocalypse level event caused by the water demon known as Abyss, manifested by a combination of humanity’s fear, the soul of the dark wizard Nostra Dominus from 777 years prior, and humanity’s subconscious cognition of character from a 1998 3D platformer video game.