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Description:
> A freshwater trout capable of surviving freezing temperatures, and likely the more delicious for it.
Fishing log:
> Not even the freezing temperatures of the Eblan Rime can keep this large wavekin from swimming its icy waters. The fatty deposits it uses to keep from becoming a fish-shaped icicle have the added benefit of making this trout so delicious, it can be enjoyed raw.
Description:
> A clam commonly found in Garlemald.
Fishing log:
> Small though it is, this shellkin produces a considerable amount of tasty soup stock for Garlemald. The lines present on its shell can shed light on environmental changes, thus making the clam of great interest to researchers.
Description:
> A curious sort of creature that calls the Eblan Thaw home.
Fishing log:
> A sedate and unobtrusive wavekin with close ties to the mollusk phylum, the animulus was thought by the Garleans’ forebears to be a departed spirit manifesting in the world of the living, and has thus avoided trite comparisons to bellicose gods or capricious fae.
Description:
> An orb of a creature with a penchant for ceruleum-laced water.
Fishing log:
> The Empire’s researchers studied, dissected, and analyzed this frosty organism in excruciating detail due to its fascinating ability to convert the water’s ceruleum into energy.
Description:
> A freshwater fish covered with nigh-impenetrable scales that no mere mortal could ever break through─bare-handed, anyway.
Fishing log:
> Thick, protective scaling hides a body as soft as candy floss, and just as toothsome. Oft used in regional delicacies, this wavekin would enjoy a great deal more popularity were it not such a monstrous pain to flense.
Description:
> A king among icepike, and lord of the waters of the Eblan Thaw.
Fishing log:
> Many an unsuspecting tooth has cracked upon this creature’s scales, notorious for being harder than even the ice of the Eblan Rime. Simmering it for several hours, however, is said to have a transformative effect on the wavekin, allowing diners to masticate with molars intact.
Description:
> A large fish boasting a color as bracing as ice.
Fishing log:
> This translucent, cerulean catfish generally keeps to deeper waters, but will occasionally rise to the surface. Much more consistent is the alarmed reaction of the capital’s citizens when one is sighted in the Stainless Course, as the wavekin bears every resemblance an ice floe.
Description:
> A fish whose long, beautiful fin ensures it stands out at all times. If it had the cognitive capacity, it would no doubt be SO vain.
Fishing log:
> Sprouting from this wavekin’s body like rows of elegant horns are its stygian fins, which resemble naught so much as the imperial diadem. It is said that members of the royal family once fought to acquire this wavekin, that they might be first to present it to the emperor as a show of fealty.
Description:
> A striped fish which can be seen flitting about the waters of the capital, much to its people’s chagrin.
Fishing log:
> The imperial pleco’s black-and-white striping allows it to blend in against the frosty metal of Garlemald’s aqueducts, and has fooled many a predator. Alas, as these stripes can be mistaken for the pathway indicators on city streets, it has fooled many a citizen into tripping headlong into the waters as well.
Description:
> A king among dark crowns, and lord of the waters of the Stainless Course.
Fishing log:
> This wavekin’s delicate stygian fins resemble naught so much as tendrils of shadow. Oral history holds that the Empire’s sovereigns have traditionally bequeathed such creatures to members of their nigh-unseen personal guard─though whether out of a fondness for metaphor or mere aesthetic appreciation, only the imperial family could say.
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