Naiad Confederacy
Water-breathing people whose anatomy — gills, distinct lungs — turns out to be Louis's salvation.
Story so far
Naiad biology is the technical problem and the answer of this chapter. When Carl dumps Princess Lunette's body on a cot he realizes she has gills and is a full naiad, not a half-blood, and worries that means she is water-only. Mordecai confirms it.
Edgar turns the problem into the plan: naiad lungs are shaped differently from human lungs and must be cut carefully, but with the Kua-tin Rebreather grafted into the bronchial and a Water Breathing Scroll to grow gills, Louis can live on them. Lunette had originally been orphaned as a half-naiad after her own mother was killed at the hands of high elves.
Role
The water-breathing people whose organs replace Louis's machine heart and lungs.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
- Longtime enemy the were-castors fought for centuries on the sixth floor, alongside the high elves.
- Water-breathing people whose anatomy — gills, distinct lungs — turns out to be Louis's salvation.