Sequoia Coast Like whirlpools

Concluding this! I'm taking enormous liberties with the lore because there isn't any info available on it.

"In the early days, Mother Moon and Mother Sea were the only ones, and They brought forth women and creatures to populate the world, so they could look on them as children," said Psamathe, launching into an abrupt story about the origin of the Nereides. "But the women grew unruly and established hierarchies over one another and soon in-fighting began. Mother Moon and Mother Sea were upset, and brought forth the first male to appease the women. He would serve them dutifully, and they would vent their frustrations upon him, for he was made with the fortitude to handle it. He was made with free will, but lacked direction and knew only that he was meant to stay with the women."

There was the faintest curdling of her tone toward disgust, but Psamathe managed to keep her distaste for men under control. "The women were insatiable, however, and their aggression was endless. They were wild products of the Mother Sea and Mother Moon, unfortunate prototypes, and the male was further advanced, much as we hate to say it. With his free will, the first male walked into Mother Sea and, claiming the women were too wild and deserved their fate, drowned himself. The rebellious males still speak of him reverentially, but he is a symbol of faithlessness to us sisters.

From that act, Mother Sea and Mother Moon recognized that the women needed purpose, and so the first High Priestess was born to bring religion and meaning to the women. Mother Sea spoke to her with visions, proclaimed women Her Chosen ones, and the first High Priestess passed what sacred knowledge she was given to her sisters, who took up the mantle of Mother Sea's loyal daughters. Thus the Nereides culture was born. When the Nereides had calmed past their original wild ways, Mother Sea brought forth new males to serve them. The women were more gracious and accepting, and the males knew they were naught but vessels for the Mother Sea to bring new life into the world through Her Nereides. They, unlike the Drowned One, also had purpose, and so they remained with the Nereides duty-bound and to this day, their descendants are our consorts, through which Mother Sea blesses us with daughters.

Where all this originated is Themiscrya," Psamathe concluded, "the mother land. All Nereides or their ancestors were born there." Some dispersed so long ago that their living descendants never heard tell of the legendary coastal origin. Aktaie the elder had been one of those. "Not all women remained, and not all men found their way to Themiscrya... some went off and forgot the truth of where they came from. All wolves who now know nothing of the Mother Sea and Mother Moon originated from those wolves... but the song of the sea still burns in their blood, waiting to be heard."

"We leave Themiscrya to spread word of the true ways," Psamathe finished, her long-winded answer complete, "though many, possibly hundreds, remain there forever. It is the duty of some Nereides from their birth to go out into the world and form satellite colonies from which the Nereides way is taught to those who heed Mother Sea's call for Her children." The scryer smiled, not at all winded by her lengthy explanation, and then gestured for Caiaphas to follow her further along the cliffs. "Let me tell you of the Protomedeia," and as they walked, so she did, until Caiaphas grew tired of her company and stories.