Whale
Whale
(Creature)
Whales are massive aquatic cetaceans with fins, a tail with horizontal flukes, and blowholes on top of the head.12
Appearance
Regardless of subspecies, most whales are immense and graceful beasts of the seas.1
Abilities
Whales tend to be peaceful, but when provoked (or, for carnivorous whales, when on the hunt) they can bite, slap foes with their tail, or simply ram themselves into a target.1
Ecology
Some whales travel alone or in pairs, but in the wild many also form pods of a dozen members or more.1
The many subspecies of whale include:
- Baleen whales, which feed through the namesake comb-like filters in their mouths1
- Blue whales, tremendous filter-feeding whales with powerful tails3
- Crimson whales, aggressive hunters known for their large teeth and red skin4
- Faceless whales, pale sightless creatures also known as Darklands whales5
- Fire whales, cetaceans native to the Plane of Fire but now found in several areas of the Material Plane.6
- Great white whales, colossal and aggressive beasts1
- Narwhals, small whales whose males bear a six-foot-long tusk above their mouths4
- Orcas1
- Sperm whales1
Whales on Golarion
Whalers hunt whales to convert the beasts' blubber into oil, and to craft their bones and teeth into weapons and artwork known as scrimshaw.3
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 2, 282. Paizo Inc., 2010 .
- ↑ Whale article on Wikipedia.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “Pathfinder's Journal: The Treasure of Far Thallai 5 of 6” in The Price of Infamy, 86. Paizo Inc., 2012 .
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “Pathfinder's Journal: The Treasure of Far Thallai 5 of 6” in The Price of Infamy, 87. Paizo Inc., 2012 .
- ↑ “Bestiary” in From Hell's Heart, 82. Paizo Inc., 2012 .
- ↑ “Monsters A to Z” in Bestiary 6, 128. Paizo Inc., 2017 .
External links
- Wikipedia:Whale (real-world animal)