Shark

It is said that as long as there have been seas teeming with fish, there have been sharks to prey on them. Throughout the ages, these perfectly designed predators have never needed to adapt or evolve. Sharks are more cunning than most realize, learning and adapting to their environment while remembering encounters with specific events and individuals. If a particular trick or tactic is used on a shark once, it is likely to avoid or counter it during a second encounter.

However, regardless of the encounter, nearly all sharks rely on devastating bites to dismembers and slaughter prey. Sharks will sometimes take an experimental bite to determine if a subject is a potential meal. Once a shark commits to eating its new victim, it will quickly go into a frenzy, shredding the unfortunate soul into bloody bite-sized pieces.

A key component to the shark's success is its array of highly enhanced senses. Among the most well-known is its extreme sense of smell, specifically enhanced to enable the shark to detect blood from a quarter-mile away. Sharks lock in on wounded prey this way, and as they draw closer, they can use their electroreception to ensure even the most well-hidden creatures cannot evade them. This electroreception allows sharks to detect electrostatic fields in their environment, which they use to perceive the electricity generated by the animals around them.

Sharks usually hold religious significance to cultures living in or near the sea. These cultures often feature a patron shark god who rules the ocean and uses sharks to enact divine judgement. The sahuagin are the most strongly tied to sharks, holding the shark god Sekolah as their primary deity. Their bond with sharks is so strong that they can telepathically communicate with and command any shark they encounter, and the two species are natural allies.