The Eastern Sea

The Eastern Sea of the Continents is home to the notorious knife fish. About six times the size of a piranha, these fish come in schools of ten up until three hundred individuals. What makes them so feared are their sharp metal fins, particularly their three-foot-long iron dorsal fin, which is as sharp as a multi-tempered witch elven warblade and slices through a ship's hull like a piece of brown bread. The fish feed almost exclusively on the crews of merchant and warships and which they capsize through strategically placed cuts. They are responsible for thousands of shipwrecks with sometimes extremely valuable goods on the floor of the Northern Sea. The larger the swarm, the greater the hunger and the targeted ship. Knifefish can also jump up to five meters out of the water, for example to slit the throat of a fisherman on a small fishing boat out of the blue. The only known way to defend yourself against a school of knifefish is to vibrate large metal plates similar to castanets or a gong, as this also vibrates the partially metal bodies of the fish and causes them discomfort. However, if you are unlucky and encounter a starved swarm, even that cannot save you.
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