Daggerfin
Mostly stalking the Azure Coast and Sapphire Shores, the Daggerfin are a common threat around watery areas, like beaches, swamps and the roads leading to them. While they sometimes share territory with the Varanians, the two are not at odds: the two species often trade, and the Daggerfin often buy slaves from them and share their dislike for modern technology. A commoner would find ill treatment from them both, but an adventurer would easily escape and slay their captors during their flight. the Daggerfin need water to nest, and often find themselves at odds with the Tetrae over nesting grounds. While they despise technology as much as the Varanians do, instead choosing to adhere to a more primitive lifestyle, they are somewhat more lenient than their allies: The only 'technology' allowed is the magic used by their shamans and some of the weapons they loot off slain enemies. It's not uncommon to see a Daggerfin wielding harpoons, nets, large fishing knives, and enormous fishing hooks.
Ruthless Hunters
To encounter a Daggerfin is often the start of a battle: they only interact with the mortal races to capture slaves, steal resources, and show off their strength by slaying their enemies.Basic Information
Anatomy
The Daggerfin are bipedal, humanoid shark beasts, with five-fingered hands and clawed nails. They possess shark tails to swim faster than any of the mortal races.
Ecology and Habitats
Near bodies of water or in swamps and marshes.
Dietary Needs and Habits
The diet of an average Daggerfin consists of large quantities of large quantities of fish, squid, and stingrays, and they are not beyond hunting seals for food. the Daggerfin often overfish in fishing areas, sometimes encroaching on fishing areas that the mortal races, and they often plunder fishing boats when they come across them.
Additional Information
Average Intelligence
Sentient and literate in Varanian and Dagarean.
Civilization and Culture
Gender Ideals
Daggerfin females are expected to raise the children, and female slaves are often sent to be nannies or purchase ingredients for meals from the gatherers. Daggerfin males are to expected work and provide for the family, and male slaves are often taken to the place in which this profession is practiced and sent to more menial tasks.
Deviating from this is usually punished in a gruesome fashion: while their Varanian allies still bother with threats, the Daggerfin often execute their dissenters, regardless of age.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
Dagarean: to one of the mortal races, it often sounds as a combination of growling, snarling, and sickening bubbling noises. The Daggerfin often do speak Varanian to a degree due to a need for trading with them, but find themselves unable to make the clicking noises that some dialects require due to their anatomy.
Average Physique
The average Daggerfin is even taller than an Orc, and has an even more muscular build: they often look bulkier, and are capable of wielding heavier weapons than the Varanians.
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