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Jaskier narrowly avoids being forced into marriage with a mage’s violently unstable daughter by agreeing in a moment of panic, only for the mage to curse him anyway, mid-argument, into an incomplete mermaid transformation. The spell finishes while Jaskier is already in the sea, where he is found by Geralt, a true-born mermaid who initially assumes he’s rescuing a drowning human until gills and a tail form in real time. Convinced by human propaganda that mermaids eat people, Jaskier panics and outs himself as cursed, human, and nobility all at once, drawing the immediate attention of Yennefer, who recognizes the political value of a human noble trapped underwater. Rather than curing him, she stabilizes the curse just enough to keep him alive, and useful, setting the stage for a manufactured crisis in which Jaskier becomes both proof and pawn in an escalating power struggle between humans and merfolk.