Orca
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Description
On occasion, young orcas leave their kin and join landfolk society for a time. Traditionally, they find work as stevedores or marines, as they do not thrive far from the salt sea. Some orcas need distance from their kin more than water, and so travel inland.
Orcas are enormous and grow larger every year.
No orca has been seen to die of old age and infirmity among land-folk. Well before old age can claim them, they must return to the ocean, or their bodies will grow too large to live outside the water. How large they can become in mother ocean is a mystery to land-folk, though foreign tall tales speak of leviathans climbing from the waves. Some call orcas 'sea-ogres', and they scoff at this. Others call the orca 'blackfish', and this slur the orca do not scoff at but punish.
The nomadic pods orcas hail from sometimes trade with passing ships, be they pirate or merchant.
Sometimes they offer up salvage from sunken ships; other times, they sell haunting artworks of coral and scrimshaw. The vast hands of land-lubber orca likewise find workcarving stone, wood, or bone in to beautiful shapes.
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Pg. No. 905