Geographic Base: The Middle East

Appearance: Undines are a hybrid of human heads on seahorse bodies. They come in shades of light blue and sea foam green and are 2" tall. Most have thin stripes of silver on the ridges of their body and deep amethyst colored eyes. While ancient people once hunted Undines for what humans believed were the precious metals and stones adorning their skins, these beautiful effects are a product of supernatural essences rather than of any natural minerals or ores.

Lifestyle: Undines are deeply intellectual creatures immersed in the study of the highest forms of magic. Very serious in mindset, Undines generally spurn sports and games, except when very young, and know little to nothing of the purely decorative arts. They can breathe only underwater, making their homes among the coral, but are also wonderful inventors, leading much of the supernatural research into human technologies. They also make wonderful diplomats within the magical kingdom and contact with them has frequently been sought through the ages by human beings claiming magical abilities and looking to the Undines for assistance in furthering these (mostly imaginary) powers. Undines eat a very plain and unvarying diet of seaweed and are one of the few magical peoples with a standardized and required system of training in magical arts for their young.

Human Interaction: While Undines may occasionally help human beings that they respect with retrieving articles lost in the sea or cracking particularly tricky problems of philosophy, they generally stay aloof of such concerns. To the few humans who have placated the not inconsiderable Undine ego however, Undine thinkers can be an invaluable aid, revealing secrets of nature and time and even bringing amazing fluidity and clarity of composition to poetic tracts.