Dakarrans require a lot of crystals for their sonomancy and the best quality cyrtsals are sea prisms which are formed in the sea as the name suggests and are then washed up on the Dakarran coast with most of them ending up deposited in tidal caves. Collecting sea prism is a source of income for many lower class Dakarran citizens but also a dangerous one as it is not only a race against time to collect sea prisms before the tide comes back in and floods the caves again, but often the tidal caves are used as nesting grounds by Glassfins. If gatherers can give a nesting Glassfin a wide enough berth they might not attack to protect their eggs, but often this is not possible in the narrow passages. This gatherer still bears the many scars from Glassfin encounters and is likely going to recieve some new ones this day after startling a female in the middle of laying her eggs right by the entrance of the cave.

Not a lot is known about Glassfins aside from that they live in the coastal waters of Dakarra, and some recent sightings in other coastal regions around Eidon; and they've earned their name due to their glass like semi translucent scales which make them nearly invisible once they enter the water. Their main way of defending themselves is an electrical discharge which can stun and burn anyone who gets too close, but they also possess a potent paralyzing venom though it is usually not deadly for humans some do have a bad reaction to it, not to mention being paralyzed inside the tidal caves is a pretty dire situation if the venom does not wear off before the tide comes back in. Because of these many attacks Glassfins have been classified as a monster type as it is still unknown if they have any kind of culture or are capable of speech, but some scholars believe they should be considered beast folk since monster classification has been wrong before untill more was understood about them.
Interestingly Glassfins are protected from harm by the Dakarran rulers for the time being untill they can be studied and understood better and protected if need be if they turn out to be beast folk.

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