Remora

Remora is a Siren that features in the quest Song from the Depths.

According to the story she tells the player during the quest, she had always loved singing but was ridiculed by her sisters for it. One day, she discovered that men fishing on the docks loved listening to her sing and so she sang for the sake of having an admiring audience. But, much to her dismay, they drown themselves to reach her, upon hearing her sing. She then sang to the people on land, but finds that they too start battling one another out of jealousy over her, as shown through the two dreaming spirits that begin to fight one another when she says this.

Eventually, her story tells of an enraged spirit, one dark, and sinister, and lonely. She describes her efforts to help the spirit by singing to it, and though she say she managed to quell the spirits anger, revealed to be the Queen Black Dragon, she was eventually devoured by her.

She is discovered by the player inside the stomach of the Queen Black Dragon, where she relates to the player that she remembers being eaten by the Queen Black Dragon. She was under a dream-like illusion that made her believe she was on an island, thinking she was singing for adoring men once again, when she was in fact singing to men in their sleep, keeping them alseep. Freeing her from the cyst she was trapped in causes the Dragon to regurgitate the player, herself, and The Raptor. They spot Remora's necklace on the ground, which she had promised to use to teleport them all to saftey, but while attempting the reach it Remora is killed by the dragon. Only the player and The Raptor escape.

Remora was likley the subject of deceit, as she mentions the 'Dragon and the old woman' were co-operating, the latter being an unexplained NPC. It is possible that she is the person who put Remora in the dream like state, where she would keep people alseep, and forcing their dreaming spirits moving towards the cave in which the Queen Black Dragon lay, unkowingly.

Trivia

 * Because of her beautiful voice some men drowned while listening to her, when she made it to the shore of a town with the bodies she was made out for a witch, and thus giving the town the name Witchaven.
 * In Greek Mythology, Sirens were femme fatales who used their beautiful singing voice to lure sailors to their deaths.
 * The graphics for Remora appear to be based on an artwork made by Pascal Blanché back in 2001. Pascal is currently Art Director at Jagex Ltd.
 * A remora is a type of fish that is commonly found on sharks, whales, and other sea creatures as well as boats. They have a mutualistic relationship with their host; they attach onto their host for a ride, and in return they eat the smaller organisms that may be pestering to their host.