The Water-Jealous
16 creatures confidence: high community #49
water-guardianship with punishes-those-who-pollute-or-overharvest-water: spirits that own a water and exact a price for it [named growth-05, approved by mk 2026-07-28]
What binds them
The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.
- water guardianship (power, shared ×5)
- punishes those who pollute or overharvest water (motif, shared ×3)
- lies in wait in stagnant water (motif, shared ×2)
- child stealing (power, shared ×2)
- drowning lure (power, shared ×2)
- guides lost travelers (power, shared ×2)
- heightened senses (power, shared ×2)
- can be placated by specific ritual or trick (motif, shared ×1)
Spans 9 tradition families: european ×3 · middle-eastern ×3 · east-asian ×2 · oceanian ×2 · north-american-indigenous ×2 · celtic ×1 · southeast-asian ×1 · african ×1 · south-american ×1
Members
- Abere
- Al
- Alp-luachra
- Asin
- Grindylow
- Hippocampus
- Huli jing
- Ichthyocentaur
- Kappa
- Kolowisi
- Lik
- Lilitu
- Mami Wata
- Mo'o
- Redjal el Marja
- Singa
Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.