History Literature / MermaidMoon

* WeddingSmasher: [[spoilers:Unbeknownst to Sanna, the other young mermaids are planning to use their song to kill the landish people, partly in a misguided effort to save Sanna and partly just to show off their voices. They carry out their plan right after Peder is killed by bees, as all the wedding guests flee the courtyard in a panic and try to escape to the other islands. When they hear the mermaids' song, most of them run into the ocean. Dozens die before the older merfolk arrive and put a stop to it.]]

* WeddingSmashers: [[spoilers:Unbeknownst to Sanna, the other young mermaids are planning to use their song to kill the landish people, partly in a misguided effort to save Sanna and partly just to show off their voices. They carry out their plan right after Peder is killed by bees, as all the wedding guests flee the courtyard in a panic and try to escape to the other islands. When they hear the mermaids' song, most of them run into the ocean. Dozens die before the older merfolk arrive and put a stop to it.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:The "treasure" Sjædent wants is actually Peder. She wants to steal his life, and unlike Thyrla, she's powerful enough to steal life from a corpse. When Bjarl and Sanna try to stop her, she freezes Bjarl and blows flames at Sanna. Sanna [[AttackReflector turns the flames back on her]], burning her to death.]]

* HowDadMetMom: Sjædent tells Sanna the story of how her father, Bjarl, met her mother, Lisabet. Lisabet was washing clothes for her family where a river ran into the sea. Bjarl was swimming near the shore, looking for landish fruits to eat, when he heard Lisabet crying because she didn't want to wash clothes. Bjarl swam closer and looked up at her from under the surface. Lisabet looked down and was so startled she fell into the water, where Bjarl caught her.

Sanna, a sixteen-year-old mermaid/human hybrid who has grown up in the sea, wants to search for her landish mother. The witch Sjældent, who has spent the last two years teaching Sanna magic, casts a spell to turn her into a human girl and leaves her on the shores of the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands, a small, rocky archipelago in the far north, with instructions to find something precious beyond imagination and bring it back to Sjældent. Sanna is taken into the castle of Baroness Thyrla, a powerful witch who wants to use Sanna for her own purposes.

* HookersAndBlow: Peder's only interests are women and wine (the hardest drug available on the Thirty-Seven Islands). Thyrla has encouraged his interest in shallow hedonism while discouraging him from anything intellectual or practical so he will never leave her control.

* ChosenConceptionPartner: Thyrla has had a number of children fathered by various sailors, born in secret, and killed in infancy to keep Thyrla young. Eventually she decided that a living child might be of use to her, so she married a weak, passive man named Lot who wouldn't get in her way. Once she was pregnant with their son Peder, she killed Lot too. Few people noticed his absence.

Sanna, a sixteen-year-old mermaid/human hybrid who has grown up in the sea, wants to search for her landish mother. The witch Sjældent casts a spell to turn Sanna into a human girl and leaves her on the shores of the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands, a small, rocky archipelago in the far north, with instructions to find something precious beyond imagination and bring it back to Sjældent. Sanna is taken into the castle of Baroness Thyrla, a powerful witch who wants to use Sanna for her own purposes.

* FierySalamander: Sanna asks Thyrla for a demonstration of her magic. Thyrla coughs a fire-breathing lizard out of her mouth.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Love between a human and a mermaid is heavily frowned upon by both species. Sj&adlig;ldent worked her forgetting magic to protect both Sanna and Bjarl from the cruel treatment they would face at the hands of many of their fellow merfolk if it was known that Sanna had a human mother.

Sanna, a sixteen-year-old mermaid/human hybrid who has grown up in the sea, wants to search for her landish mother. The witch Sjældent casts a spell to turn Sanna into a human girl and leaves her on the shores of the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands, a small, rocky archipelago in the far north, with instructions to find something precious beyond imagination and bring it back to Sjældent. Sanna is taken into the castle of Baroness Thyrla, a powerful witch, who wants to use Sanna for her own purposes.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The night of Sanna's birth, Sjældent cast a spell to erase everyone's memory of the event. The other merfolk remember nothing about her mother, including her father, Bjarl. The spell also affected the landish people, so that Sanna's mother Lisabet has no memory of falling in love with a merman and bearing his child, and her family doesn't remember she was ever pregnant. Only Sjældent remembers Lisabet's name and the story of her romance with Bjarl, but even she doesn't remember where Lisabet lived.