Silverfins in The Lost Archipelago | World Anvil

Silverfins

Beautiful, tough, and incredibly fast, Silverfins are small fish that thrive in the Scalding Sea. They have tough and shining black scales with bright silver fins, they feed off of the drifting Magmic Blooms (Huge glowing red algal blooms) and their shoals will follow the algae around. Despite their hardiness, these fish live only in the shallows, diving rarely more than half a dozen meters as the heat there reaches unbearable temperatures.

 
The fishermen of the The Sundered Clans will follow these blooms until they catch some sign of their quarry, such as sunlight glinting off Silverfin scales. Then like a pack of wolves, the flotilla will corral the shoal and hem it. The final two boats then row quickly through it with a large net of woven Tuskux hair strung like a web between them to catch the cornered shoal. Once brought back to land the fish must be boiled - at temperatures exceeding those of the shallows of the Scalding Sea - until the hardened scales are loosened and able to be stripped, these can then be used for clothes and armor. The meat is then either salted or roasted to be eaten and so provides for the tribe.

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